Workforce Management

New products and methodologies that help companies manage both full-time employees and independent contractors, and why they may need to meld the often-competing concerns of HR and Procurement as contingent workers take on a greater role in executing business strategy. Here’s where we also look at trends related to workforce dynamics and the products that address them.

BambooHR launched Benefits Administration, a solution meant to simplify the benefits enrollment process. Benefits Administration integrates employee benefits enrollment into the BambooHR platform, providing a faster and more convenient experience for all users.  Benefits Administration is designed to save HR  time and ensure accuracy in managing employee benefits, BambooHR said....
Visier launched a generative AI-based digital assistant that adds a simple conversational interface to Visier People. The company said the capability allows any HR leader who has questions about their workforce to access the intelligence they require. Called “Vee,” the product translates natural language questions into Visier's query language, then...
Guild unveiled Priority Pathways and Talent Development Analytics, two new product capabilities designed to help employees advance within their company.  Guild says it launched the features at a time when career mobility has become necessary to help employers close skills gaps and remain competitive in today's labor market. The capabilities synthesize...
Performance management platform 15Five launched its HR Outcomes Dashboard, which aims to provide a way to measure, analyze and act on data that connects performance management programs to business impact. The dashboard captures key talent data and synthesizes it into three primary outcomes of most concern to both HR and...
Ceridian launched Dayforce Career Explorer, an AI-powered solution that aims to help improve engagement and retention by “allowing employees to manage their careers.” The product will provide employees with more access to data-driven career pathing, opportunities for learning and development and job notifications for open roles, the company said. The...
AI-driven “bossware” tools -- which track employee productivity by following location and keystrokes -- could be an issue for a company's efforts to comply with discrimination laws, according to the Associated Press. On top of that, the news agency said AI candidate screening tools could cross the line when it...
Generation Z is the only segment in the labor market that is showing growth, according to a report from Paychex. In fact, the study found the workforce's composition is shifting as more Gen Z members seek full-time and long-term roles, Gen X begins to retire and Millennials enter their...
Indeavor, which provides people operations and workforce management solutions, launched Labor Demand Planning, a software package that’s meant enable enterprises with a 24-hour, shift-driven workforce to integrate their ERP and workforce management systems. The company said LDP is the first solution of its kind to address exceptionally complex labor and...
Qualtrics added capabilities to Qualtrics Pulse, its solution for frequent employee listening. The new features allow Pulse to automatically analyze and distribute employee feedback to leaders and managers so they can take more timely action, the company said. Qualtrics said the features free executives from having to rely on...
Transcript Mark: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. My guest today is Ian White, the founder and CEO of ChartHop. They refer to themselves as a people operations platform that connects and visualizes all of company's workforce data in one place. We're going to...