Mark Feffer: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology report. I'm Mark Feffer.
Today, I talk with Martha Bird, business anthropologist at ADP Innovation Lab. Her job is to make sure that the human element is accounted for when new digital products are designed, so that, for...
A number of HR leaders have speculated that employers’ attitudes toward remote work will have changed permanently once the COVID-19 pandemic ends. New research shows that thinking’s warranted.
Some three-quarters of CFOs—74 percent—plan to shift at least 5 percent of their employees to remote work, according to Gartner. Nearly a...
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...
Providers of virtual
recruiting technology have seen a dramatic increase in customer interest over
the last few weeks as employers shift their talent acquisition efforts online. One
of them, San Francisco-based Turazo, said it’s receiving more inquiries and
conversations have begun moving more quickly since shelter-in-place directives
began appearing in March.
Turazo’s campus-recruiting
platform is receiving...
Providing emotional support has become a critical issue as HR departments scramble to set up and manage remote workforces.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation more people are reporting mental health challenges because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the most recent KFF Health Tracking poll, 45 percent of Americans...
Nearly a month after the coronavirus forced businesses to shift millions of employees to remote work, North America’s infrastructure is holding up, with some signs of strain.
Technology executives have expressed concern about whether local internet nodes can support the increase in traffic being generated from home workspaces. “The infrastructure...
In this point of view, Cecile Alper-Leroux, vice president of HCM Innovation at Ultimate Software, explains how managers can use communications to guide their teams through times of crisis.
A lot of what my team and I do here at Ultimate Software involves predictions, albeit predictions grounded in research, but there...
The spread of the coronavirus continues, and employers
continue to adapt even though the rules of business and community seem to
change every day. Still, even though U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams predicts
that “this week, it’s going to get bad,” a number of organizations continue to
insist workers report to their offices.
Speaking...
The coronavirus is bound to impact the HR technology business, analysts and industry executives believe. However, where that impact will be felt isn’t yet clear.
The situation surrounding the pandemic is
changing quickly and constantly, and vendors say they’re focused on supporting customers
as HR departments scramble to enable their companies to...
The coronavirus is forcing more employers to accommodate remote work as families scramble to juggle working from home while schools are closed and older relatives need attention. Already, the HR tech world is seeing changes.
Across the U.S., state and local governments declared states of emergency, closed public gathering places...
