Employers are putting their money where their mouths are when it comes to training workers to cope with automation and AI. A new report shows that nearly half of U.S. companies plan to raise their learning budgets to align worker skills with the way technology is changing many jobs....
Both employers and employees continue to worry about whether
the workforce’s skills align with the changing needs of business, despite
months of discussion about the necessity of upskilling.
To hear them speak at UNLEASH World in Paris last week, corporate leaders increasingly see cost-effective learning as a business imperative. Now we find...
Cornerstone OnDemand is spending a lot of time talking about
content and taking steps to help employers better communicate with their
younger employees.
During this week’s third-quarter earnings call, company executives
said a continued emphasis on content and data will set the company apart from
its competitors and ensure continued growth.
CEO Adam Miller said...
Cornerstone OnDemand is working with Facebook’s Oculus to
incorporate virtual reality features into workforce learning.
The companies announced an agreement under which shared clients will be able to build apps that track VR training completion data within Cornerstone’s LMS. Using functionality developed by Cornerstone and Oculus, customers will be able to...
Docebo announced a series of updates to its learning platform.
The company said its new version, Docebo 7.8, is designed around
personalization but also includes enhanced administration tools.
At the update’s core is a new AI-powered virtual coach—called, well, “Docebo Virtual Coach”—designed to proactively guide each individual user. CEO Claudio Erba likened the...
Paycom rolled out two enhancements to its Paycom Learning
LMS, one to help employees demonstrate their knowledge of a skill and the other
to let subject matter experts to create and distribute video-based microlearning
content.
The first feature, called Performance Evidence, enables Paycom gives employees a way to show their progress in a...
Degreed acquired London-based Adepto, a platform that allows
organization to gain greater insight to the skill sets of employees as well as
candidates and alumni.
Degreed said the transaction will accelerate its global
expansion and add strengthened skills inventories, on-the-job development
experience and career mobility tools to its learning platform. The company didn’t
disclose the...
Cornerstone OnDemand bought Clustree, a French technology company with an extensive AI-based skills engine and skills ontology.
Clustree’s engine, which Cornerstone says is the world’s
largest, uses machine learning to help companies match their employees’ skills
with specific job roles. Its ontology is based on the consolidation of more
than 1 billion job...
Performance management solutions provider 15Five added an
educational component to its lineup by rolling out the Best-Self Academy. The
new platform is designed to help managers develop their skills to measure and
improve performance, as well as communicate effectively.
The academy provides training materials on what it calls the “key lessons” managers need...
Could employers’ increasing use of remote workers collide
with their security concerns and transformation efforts? New research suggests
that it might.
Supported not only by technology such as mobile, collaboration
and cloud storage solutions, but also by more flexible workplace policies and acceptance
that people don’t have to be in the office to be...
