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.

Transcript Mark: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. My guest today is Lauren Fitzpatrick Shanks, the founder and CEO of KeepWOL or Keep Wondering Out Loud. It's a learning and development platform that helps teams connect, become engaged and stay that way....
Gloat introduced My Team, an expansion of its workforce agility platform that will help managers provide employees with feedback on their performance in real-time rather than the standard one year.  With My Team, Gloat hopes to aid in the feedback process so that managers can have more productive and personalized...
Both managers and employees value flexibility in their schedules, with 79% of workers preferring to work for a company that offers more flexibility rather than less. Still, a significant number of employers aren’t addressing those preferences. According to WorkForce Software’s Workforce Experience Gap Study, 39% of employees and 43%...
15Five received a “strategic investment” from ServiceNow, adding to the $52 million Series C round the company announced in July. The amount of the investment wasn't disclosed. The companies said the funding underscores ServiceNow’s commitment to investing in technology and projects that “reinvent work and drive productivity.” It was only in...
Announcer: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. We are recording from HR Tech in Vegas, brought to you by our friends and partners at Fuel 50. Here's your host, Mark Feffer. Mark Feffer: This is PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer and we're...
Transcript Mark: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. My guest today is Melanie Lougee, the Head of Employee Workflow Strategy at ServiceNow. We're going to talk about what ServiceNow does for HR, how businesses navigated the turn toward remote work during COVID, and...
Transcript Mark: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. COVID has changed a lot of things, obviously, particularly in business and how business gets done, but what you don't hear a lot about is how it's impacted experience, specifically the approach and tools...
Employee referral programs are an easy way to engage reputable candidates through your current workers. To help you run an effective employee referral program, we asked HR managers and business leaders to give us their best advice. From using dedicated software to publicly recognize employees, there are a number...
Millennials have been part of the workforce for a number of years, shaping the dynamics of workplaces as well as the labor market in general. As millennials increasingly begin to land executive positions, it’s important to know their values and the impact they’ve made on work. To understand the...
We asked HR managers and business leaders to share their best insights on actionable employer branding initiatives to help you develop a strong reputation. From testing brand messages to encouraging employees to share their experiences, here are several initiatives that companies must actualize to develop an employer brand that...