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Employers are bracing for a wave of mental health issues as workers struggle to face the pandemic, schooling their children, financial pressures and the pandemic. According to Unum, 85% of...
Oracle Cloud HCM added new products and features with an emphasis on personalized “journeys” for employees and enhanced data for use by HR teams.
The updates came along with new capabilities added to a number of its cloud applications, including Enterprise Resource Planning, Enterprise Performance Management and Supply Chain Management.
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SilkRoad Technology completed the first phase of efforts to unify its solutions, and launched enhancements to its RedCarpet onboarding and learning platforms.
Under the banner of “OneView,” SilkRoad is pulling together all of its products into a single platform. The initial update is focused on an updated user interface that...
Glassdoor launched new features geared toward helping companies showcase the results of their diversity and inclusion efforts.
The first of them, the Diversity & Inclusion Rating, lets employees use a five-point scale to rate their satisfaction with the D&I efforts of current or former employers. The resulting score will appear...
Phenom has acquired My Ally, an HR technology company focused on automation, in particular the scheduling of interviews. The company said My Ally would help it deliver “an intelligent, omni-channel interview scheduling experience.”
The acquisition, Phenom’s first, comes eight months after the company closed a $30 million round of Series...
Recruiting technology company AllyO has been acquired by HireVue, adding AI-driven chatbots and automated workflows to its core video-interview and assessment capabilities. The company expects the combination of products to help customers increase the pace of hiring and improve the quality of their talent pool.
Terms of the transaction weren’t...
iCIMS introduced a new version of itself this week, gathering all of its products into a single package it calls the iCIMS Talent Cloud. The company describes the offering as “a unified, AI-powered platform” that can help employers attract, engage, hire and advance the right talent.
Those four verbs—attract, engage,...
SAP SuccessFactors continues to hone its approach to “Human Experience Management,” the idea that experience is central to the implementation of successful HCM and recruiting strategies.
When rolling out HXM at 2019’s SuccessConnect, the company said that the focus on employee experience was the most meaningful trend it saw in...
Attorneys may frown and talent acquisition specialists may shake their heads, but most hiring managers check out the social media profiles of job applicants.
Specifically, 71% of American hiring decision-makers believe that looking at social media profiles is an effective way to screen applicants, according to Harris Poll survey commissioned...
Oracle NetSuite announced a range of enhancements to its platform, including a new performance management application in SuitePeople.
Broadly speaking, the updates are meant to help small and mid-market companies improve management and operations across the organization. In SuitePeople, employee onboarding, payroll and performance management capabilities have been added.
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