Culture & Engagement

It seems ironic that so many companies seek to engage their employees through the use of technology platforms that may, for one reason or another, put more distance between organizations and employees. Technology doesn’t eliminate the need for thought, planning and leadership. The articles here result from our quest to find the right balance.

Paylocity launched two new products, Recognition & Rewards and Employee Voice, to tackle efforts designed to improve culture and engagement and boost recruiting and retention. The company said the products will improve workplace connections throughout a company’s workplace environment. Recognition & Rewards builds on Paylocity’s peer recognition capabilities and includes...
Qualtrics and WorkJam announced a partnership focused that aims to improve the frontline employee experience in ways that will lead to a better customer experience. By combining Qualtrics’ conversational intelligence technology with WorkJam’s app for frontline workers, the companies say they’ll provide companies with a continuous view of their frontline...
Performance review platform Confirm is adopting organizational network analysis to provide employers with insights on their employees’ contributions to the company. The new product, Performance Profile, will help employees understand exactly where they stand at work, how their progress compares to that of their colleagues and specific actions they can...
Alight partnered with Socially Determined, which provides predictive metrics based on social determinants of health, in a move to expand its the personalized employee support it provides through the Alight Worklife platform and the Alight services ecosystem. “Coupling the data from Socially Determined with Alight’s benefit administration, payroll, retiree and...
Transcript Mark: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. Today's topic is workplace misconduct, and my guest is Ben Mones, the CEO of Fama. His company recently published a report called The State of Misconduct. Among other things, they found that seven of the nine...
Although the pervasiveness of bias in the workplace has gotten increasing attention in recent years, the on-the-ground challenges haven’t changed much, according to new research from Textio. In the last decade, “what hasn’t changed are the same broad patterns of bias in feedback that show up in the workplace year...
Lattice announced Lattice HRIS, an HR information system that will manage employee records and integrate directly with the company’s existing talent suite of products. The HRIS will be available next year, but companies can join a waitlist for an early-access program. The product will customers to report on metrics, better...
In a move to expand its strategic footprint, employee experience platform Simpplr acquired Socrates.ai, a generative AI-based virtual employee assistant. The company intends to integrate Socrates.ai into its suite of digital workplace solutions. Simpplr believes that bringing together solutions for employee engagement, enablement and AI-based services will result in a...
A significant number of employed job seekers believe AI recruiting tools are more biased than their human counterparts, according to a survey conducted by the Harris Poll on behalf of the American Staffing Association. The level of distrust is particularly high among those actively seeking new roles. Among those actively...
Transcript Mark: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. My guest today is Ben Hanowell, director of People Analytics Research at the ADP Research Institute. They've just launched a report series called Today at Work and its kickoff edition takes a look at...