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New product announcements, coverage of trends, strategies and customer demand and experiences from around the industry.

In this guest column, APPrise Mobile CEO Jeff Corbin offers three questions that will ensure your employees receive the information they need. Employee communications and employee engagement are one and the same, right? Wrong. While there’s no doubt they both play an important role in the workplace,...
Cornerstone OnDemand launched several products focused on internal communications and employee learning. They're all designed with an eye toward increasing engagement by helping companies develop learning-heavy cultures. Leading the list is Cornerstone Conversations, which will be added to Cornerstone Performance suite this fall. Conversations is designed to encourage productivity, growth...
HR technology managers and vendors have expressed increasing concern about user adoption recently, as they grapple with many employees’ visible reluctance adopt workforce solutions despite the investment required to implement them. “Customers will only see ROI from those IT investments if there’s an adequate level of adoption on the user’s part,” observed Bogdan...
Despite the continual talk of learning’s importance to engagement, 70 percent of American employees are at least somewhat likely to jump to a new company if they think they’ll find better development opportunities there. Instructure sees an opportunity. So, Instructure announced a new Bridge Employment Development Platform to help employers address what it...
Dice launched Candidate Match, a new tool that applies intelligent automation and machine learning to recruiter searches on the technology-focused job board. Art Zeile, CEO of Dice parent DHI Group, said Candidate Match is “tailor-made” for the technology industry. The feature uses job and candidate data, rather than keyword matching alone, to...
While HR professionals push the notion they can directly contribute to their organization’s strategy and bottom line, they continue to have challenges working with their colleagues in Finance. For one thing, they have differing worldviews when it comes to the state of collaboration. According to workforce analytics company OrgVue’s report Making People...
In this Point of View Vivian Maza, chief people officer at Ultimate Software, explains why effective benefits programs require constant care and feeding. Each company’s open enrollment is a major annual milestone. For employees, it’s the crucial time to choose the best benefits for themselves and their families. It’s also crucial for HR to...
Hiring platform Montage has merged with Shaker International, a provider of of predictive talent intelligence and assessment solutions. Terms weren’t disclosed, and the combined entity doesn’t have a name yet. The new organization will help its combined client base to embed predictive intelligence into automated hiring workflows. The result, it said, will be...
Mercer introduced its Mobility Management Platform, created in collaboration with ServiceNow. The cloud-based solution is designed to reduce the complexity, costs and risks associated with talent mobility programs while improving the employee experience. The platform, called MMP for short, combines Mercer’s expertise in HR and mobility with ServiceNow’s Now Platform...
Visier introduced an analytics feature that provides up-to-date visibility into the state of their organization’s diversity and inclusion efforts. The SaaS solution helps identify opportunities and risks to aid HR and business leaders as they develop strategies around achieving their organization’s D&I goals. The product, called Visier People, specifically targets chief diversity officers and...