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.

ServiceNow’s Utah release looks to be an effort to improve product performance and expand the Now Platform’s workflow automation capabilities. The Utah release was built to help organizations “future‑proof” their business and drive outcomes more quickly, the company said. The new version includes AI‑powered process mining with robotic process automation,...
Transcript Mark:               Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. My guest today is Paul Davies, the senior vice president for HR Business Partners at ServiceNow. People talked about encouraging transformation, but Paul's actually done it. Before joining ServiceNow, he was head of...
High volume ATS provider Fountain added conversational AI feature, Fountain AI, to its product suite. The feature helps recruiters to screen and qualify candidates efficiently and automates manual processes. Fountain AI aims to accelerate the hiring funnel and help hiring managers get candidates through the process faster, according to the...
ActivTrak added two new features, Workforce Capacity and Impact Analysis, to its suite of solutions. The company said the additions will support “data-informed workforce planning and organizational design, and help organizations optimize efficiency and identify cost savings.” ActivTrak, which was founded in 2009, is a workforce productivity and analytics software...
Only about half of employers – around 56% – believe their workforce understands the organization's strategy, vision and purpose, according to Gallagher's 2022/2023 State of the Sector report. So it's not surprising that many organizations are looking to revamp their internal communications strategy in order to give their employees a better...
GoCo.io announced the availability of its winter product release, which aims to add flexibility and automation to the employee management platform. Michael Gugel, GoCo’s co-founder and chief product officer, said the release adds a new template library, enhancements to onboarding, and new integrations with E-Verify by Tracker I-9, popular learning...
Productivity-tracking software, such as webcam surveillance or data from solutions like Slack and Microsoft Teams, can do more harm than good in a workforce if it’s not implemented in the right way. According to research by performance management company 15Five, more than a third of managers believe monitoring has...
Employee experience plays a critical role in the retention of frontline workers, according to a new study by Workday. The study, "Frontline Workers: How to Connect, Enable and Support Them in the Modern Workplace," found these employees want access to the right tools and technology in order to feel...
A significant number of employers face rising issues related to their IT security, including security challenges, HR-employee burnout and struggles with performance, according to a pair of recently released studies. The first, the State of Hiring and Recruiting from KarmaCheck and Findem, said HR leaders are experiencing burnout at a high rate,...
Transcript Mark: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. My guest today is Taylor Liggett, the Head of Identity Services at Sterling. We're going to talk about the technology behind background checks, what candidates want from the process and where the industry's going, all...