Fiverr relaunched its Fiverr Business service as Fiverr Pro, which it calls an end-to-end solution for both employers and freelance talent. The company believes that if businesses continue to approach hiring and work as they have in the past, they’ll risk missing out on finding the workers best-suited to...
Technology solutions provider Beeline released two products designed to address the prevailing challenges of today’s labor market: Beeline Professional and Global Workforce Intelligence. Introducing the products will further the company’s goal of “empowering companies to gain a competitive advantage by optimizing their extended workforce,” Beeline said.
The solutions were created...
Namely plans to launch four new bundled offerings designed to address challenges faced by SMBs in the current economic landscape. The launch will take place at the HR Technology Conference in Las Vegas.
The company believes small businesses are increasingly challenged by financial limitations when it comes to investing in...
Weeks after Uber focused a whiff of attention on gig technology
by launching a pilot of its Uber Works platform in Chicago, the space continues
to simmer with fresh funding and new entrants.
We say a “whiff” of attention because the continued growth of gig technology and services has become an accepted...
Gig-worker platform provider ShiftPixy has integrated IBM's Watson across its platform to improve its user experience. Specifically, the company said its current mobile gateway app uses Watson to power its entire employee enrollment process.
With Watson's AI capabilities, Irvine, Calif.-based ShiftPixy said it can now guide new hires "by a...
Deloitte's 2018 Global Human Capital Trends report argues that businesses must take on a new leadership role in today's society, and hints that changes in workforce dynamics might put expanding engagement efforts at the center of their strategies.
As the use of advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, automation and workforce...
Beeline, which provides contingent-workforce sourcing and management solutions as part of its vendor management systems, introduced Beeline One, “a new unified experience” that will provide single-login access to the solutions of both the Beeline and IQNavigator platforms.
Beeline was acquired from Adecco in 2016 by the private equity firm GTCR,...
One of a trade show’s pleasures is you get to sit down and explore some of the more meaningful, but not often talked about areas of HR with someone who’s spent a lot of time thinking about them. That’s what happened at this year’s UNLEASH, when we met Eva...
SAP Fieldglass has added four new services to its Digital Partner Network: Toptal, Trusted Health, First Advantage and TalentWave. With them, Fieldglass customers gain the ability to conduct searches for more specialized workers, background checks, verify certifications and improve payment processes.
Expanding the network is intended to give Fieldglass users...
As the workforce evolves to include fewer W-2 employees, more vendors are exploring systems that allow companies to manage their people in a unified way, regardless of whether they’re full-time or contingent. The challenge goes beyond technology: It involves culture, collaboration between HR and Procurement and a retuning of...
