Betterworks, which provides continuous performance management solutions for enterprise companies, launched new features with an eye toward improving its usability and social tools.
Betterworks CEO Doug Dennerline said the enhancements are intended
to increase adoption by offering employees a more engaging experience. “The
biggest deciding factor for organizations choosing a talent management
technology...
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Fortune 500 companies aren’t
doing a great job when it comes to optimizing candidate experience through
advanced technology. A report by Phenom People found that more than 90 percent
don’t delivery hyper-personalized experiences, use chatbots, delivered
recommended jobs or offer a social...
Jira Service Desk, a tool beloved by IT departments around the world, is adding templates and workflows designed to meet the needs of HR and other business functions.
In a blog post, Jira’s developer, Atlassian, said it expanded the product’s capabilities after a number of existing customers began using it...
PayScale launched Differentials Engine, a new tool to help
businesses incorporate skill and location data into their compensation planning
efforts.
With the number of technology-driven jobs growing rapidly, PayScale believes it’s more important for employers to understand the value of skills. “Companies want to get the most from their recruiting investments and...
Kronos announced a basketful of enhancements to its HCM solutions suites, including enhanced people analytics features and a new take on the intelligent time clock. The products were unveiled at the company’s annual Kronos Works conference in Las Vegas.
Among the new features: mobile-first enhancements to Workforce Dimensions that improve...
While reporting solid earnings, Ceridian offered hints about
its growth plans for the next several years.
Ceridian reported a year-on-year revenue increase of nearly
14 percent, to $202.3 million, during the third quarter. Dayforce recurring revenue
grew 32.6 percent to $109.4 million.
During the company’s earnings call, CEO David Ossip said the Dayforce customer...
PeopleFluent
said it’s expanding its solutions to serve smaller companies, specifically
those with between 1,000 and 5,000 employees.
To date, PeopleFluent has targeted companies with more than 5,000 workers and large HR teams. Smaller customers—whom PeopleFluent refers to as “mid-market”—can have tools preconfigured in order to reduce deployment time from several months...
Here’s a conundrum: One report says 67 percent of workers
prefer to report inappropriate behavior to their manager rather than through
any other channel. Meanwhile, another report says 64 percent trust robots more
than they do their managers.
The first study is the Employee Experience Survey from employee
relations and investigations management platform HR...
The great majority of HR leaders believe their jobs are transforming
so dramatically, they’ll be unrecognizable in 10 years. But at the same time, a
significant number doubt their organizations will be able to keep up with the
change.
Eighty-two percent of the HR executives predicted the change,
which they said would be driven...
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Australia’s PageUp
has acquired Dublin-based recruitment marketing platform
provider Clinch. The acquisition expands PageUp's recruitment software lineup
to include proactive sourcing and other tools to handle content management,
automated recruitment marketing and enhanced candidate relationship management.
Clinch also offers end-to-end recruitment analytics and...
