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

Talent intelligence platform retrain.ai closed a fresh $14 million financing round led by AI-focused investment firm Radical Ventures. The infusion brings the company’s total funding to $34 million.  “Radical’s investment will help accelerate immediate value, with proceeds fueling retrain.ai’s growth into international markets where we will continue to pursue our...
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%...
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Salary.com signed a reseller agreement with Mercer, the global HR consulting and asset management firm. Under the agreement, Mercer surveys will become available to Salary.com's 8,000 survey and B2B software subscribers. Kevin Plunkett, Salary.com’s vice president of partnerships, said increasing demands for wage transparency, coupled with the tight labor market,...
Beamery closed a $50 million Series D funding round, taking the company to a valuation of over $1 billion and representing a 25% valuation uplift over its previous round. The company's talent platform is designed to provide employers with the intelligence necessary to make more effective decisions about their workforce,...
High volume ATS provider Fountain released new recruiter tools meant to help support scheduling and interviewing of hourly workers. The update includes the ability for candidates to book time on recruiters’ calendars and to help with arranging both in-person and online interviews. The result, Fountain hopes, will be less...
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...
Alight acquired ReedGroup, a leave management solutions company from the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ReedGroup is a data-driven absence management provider that offers outsourcing, co-sourcing, SaaS and clinical guidelines designed to meet the needs of large employers, insurers and healthcare professionals.​ The...
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GoCo.io, a provider of flexible software solutions for HR, benefits and payroll, announced a $15 million Series B funding round led by ATX Venture Partners. The round was completed in September, and placed the company's valuation "significantly higher" than its previous round. The latest funding brings the total investment...