Products

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

ADP added a “Compliance on Demand” service to its product lineup in a bid to simplify the management of wage and hour regulation compliance. The offering is meant to help employers keep abreast of changing regulations at all levels of government. ADP Division Vice President and General Manager David Palmieri said the company...
Workforce management platform provider Workforce Logiq has acquired ENGAGE Talent, which delivers predictive analytics and AI software. Through the acquisition, Workforce Logiq customers will gain access to proprietary benchmarks and real-time intelligence to use in their recruiting efforts. Workforce Logiq CEO Jim Burke said ENGAGE’s products will give customers “an analytical advantage to make...
Workforce communications platform SocialChorus launched Analyze, a new tool designed to measure the effectiveness of employee communications and improve alignment within enterprise organizations. Employers have lacked an effective way to quantitatively measure the impact of communications and alignment, SocialChorus believes. So, they're forced to rely on qualitative methods, such as employee surveys....
Weeks after Uber focused a whiff of attention on gig technology by launching a pilot of its Uber Works platform in Chicago, the space continues to simmer with fresh funding and new entrants. We say a “whiff” of attention because the continued growth of gig technology and services has become an accepted...
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...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. SilkRoad Technology announced CHRO Essentials, a consulting program to help HR leaders define their organization’s vision and build a transformative talent strategy and roadmap to achieve it. CHRO Essentials also baselines current HR domains, compares those metrics to best practices and identifies work...
PeopleFluent said it’s expanding its solutions to serve smaller companies, specifically those with between 1,000 and 5,000 employees. To date, PeopleFluent has targeted companies with more than 5,000 workers and large HR teams. Smaller customers—whom PeopleFluent refers to as “mid-market”—can have tools preconfigured in order to reduce deployment time from several months...
Digital recruiting technology providers are going to ground. Literally. Recently, Indeed introduced a service to organize and promote hiring events so that employers can “focus on hiring and not on event management.” Beamery’s added a similar feature. So has LinkedIn. So has Talroo. These aren’t job fairs carrying the provider’s name. Instead, they’re...
Ceridian launched several enhancements to its HCM package, including new analytics, a new earned-wages tool and a simplified approach to customizing Dayforce. The analytics feature, Dayforce Intelligence, provides companies with predictive analytics designed to identify key metrics for each HCM process. The company said the tool will allow its customers to...
Phenom People announced enhancements to its Internal Mobility and Employee Referrals modules. Called Phenom Career Pathing and Phenom Diversity & Inclusion, the features are designed to surface future roles and upskilling opportunities, and also help employees develop their internal networks. The company said it’s trying to ease the pain of employers who lose workers...