Providers of performance management solutions are muddying their market’s waters by creating new terms for what they do, confusing customers as they develop new approaches and, at the same time, attempt to reposition PM’s role within the HCM world.
As a result, says a market landscape report from Deloitte, employers...
Culture Amp and Symphony Talent launched new analytics
tools, one to help predict an employee’s future, the other to improve the
tracking of recruitment campaigns.
At its annual Culture First global conference in San Francisco, Culture Amp announced a “prediction engine” designed to forecast employee performance and turnover risk. Called Foresight Engine,...
Dallas-based
startup Kanarys launched a collaboration platform designed to facilitate discussions
on diversity and inclusion between employers and employees.
Kanarys’ technology gathers and analyzes cultural and demographic data, industry rankings, trends and anonymous employee reviews to provide information companies can use to build inclusive workplaces and improve workplace culture. By using both...
Performance management platform Betterworks is branching out of
the enterprise world with a new “Team Edition” designed for individual teams
and, by the way, small and medium-sized businesses.
The company describes the product as “an economical, self-service package of selected performance management tools.” Up to 100 users can use Team Edition to...
SAP SuccessFactors is going all-in on the notion that “experience” is foundational to successful HR and recruiting strategies.
Delivering his opening keynote at the company’s SuccessConnect 2019, CEO Greg Tomb said that going forward, SuccessFactors will treat the idea of “Human Capital Management” as “Human Experience Management.” The biggest...
Phenom
People announced enhancements to its Internal Mobility and Employee Referrals modules.
Called Phenom Career Pathing and Phenom Diversity & Inclusion, the
features are designed to surface future roles and upskilling opportunities, and
also help employees develop their internal networks.
The
company said it’s trying to ease the pain of employers who lose workers...
Workforce communications platform SocialChorus launched Analyze,
a new tool designed to measure the effectiveness of employee communications and
improve alignment within enterprise organizations.
Employers have lacked an effective way to quantitatively measure the impact of communications and alignment, SocialChorus believes. So, they're forced to rely on qualitative methods, such as employee surveys....
Culture Amp began globally distributing a Diversity & Inclusion Starter Kit. Available at no charge, the kit's designed to help employers develop an inclusive workplace and had been announced earlier this year.
The company describes the kit as a collection of tools that will help companies through the process...
Qualtrics, the SAP-owned experience management solutions
provider, launched a flavor of EmployeeXM that targets IT executives who want
to measure their employees’ technology experiences, then use the data to close gaps
and understand where to invest in the future.
Qualtrics said it stress-tested the product, called EmployeeXM for IT, by working with Microsoft...
Here’s a thought for anyone interested in the employee
experience: Kittens are cute and cute boosts productivity.
Researchers at the University of Tulsa are delving into whether surfing kitty and puppy pictures on the web can boost an employee’s performance, according to The Wall Street Journal. Led by Prof. Jennifer...
