Facebook added features to its Workplace app in a bid to help companies support their employees and improve communication in the new world of remote work. The company believes its history building consumer products puts in a unique position to help employers develop and maintain their culture across a...
Greenhouse Software will lay off about 120 employees, or 28
percent of its workforce, as its business feels the impact of the coronavirus.
Since the end of March, several recruiting technology companies have reduced their headcount as the economy staggers under the weight of massive layoffs and plunging revenue. About 22...
Beamery became the latest recruiting platform to introduce digital events product as the COVID-19 pandemic forces employers to seek new ways to meet candidates.
Shelter-in-place requirements have disrupted the interview process as well as the use of campus career fairs and other on-site events. Employers and recruiters say videoconferencing tools...
Alexander Mann Solutions announced Hourly, a platform that
helps employers identify and hire hourly workers. The product, the first which
the company has built for itself, offers a mobile-based, conversational-style
interface.
The company said the product’s genesis began with its acquisition of Karen HR in 2019. Karen HR developed a “cognitive recruiting assistant”...
In March, Lighthouse Research & Advisory included Salary.com’s CompAnalyst platform in its Compensation Technology Buyer’s Guide and Provider Landscape. Soon after, we spoke with Salary.com CEO Kent Plunkett, CCP, about why compensation data matters, his company's business, and how both will evolve in the post-pandemic world.
Candidates
and employees recognize...
Vibe HCM added several features and resources to its engagement platform, and is fielding a pulse survey designed around COVID-19-related issues. The company said it aims to help customers quickly implement tools necessary to address state and federal legislation related to the pandemic, such as the Families First Coronavirus...
Modern Hire is offering six customizable hiring workflows that
together cover over 50 jobs in industries including hospitality, delivery,
logistics, retail and healthcare.
The “Hiring Blueprints” are meant to provide talent acquisition teams with repeatable methods of evaluating and hiring candidates at scale once shelter-in-place orders ease and businesses begin to ramp...
Shiftgig updated its digital staffing platform, Deploy, to help staffing agencies undertake “more traditional” temp-to-perm or long-term assignments.
The expansion broadens the type of agency that can use Deploy,
which creates on-demand marketplaces for workers and enables them to choose
long-term or short-term assignments. The company contends that helps agencies
fill positions...
Dice added an anonymous email feature that allows candidates and employers to keep their identity private until they’re comfortable enough to, well, open their kimono.
Dice Private Email automatically hides each candidate’s
personal email address when they make their profile visible. In addition, job
seekers can unsubscribe from messages they deem irrelevant,...
Paylocity has acquired VidGrid, a video platform that
provides two-way, peer-to-peer learning courses. The companies aren’t strangers
to each other: They’ve worked together for several years to deliver video learning
to Paylocity clients.
Those efforts created the opportunity for the companies to
join forces as one entity, Paylocity said.
Employees have put increasing emphasis...
