Small Business

HCM technology solutions for micro and small business are advancing at an increasing clip. That’s no surprise given that ADP says about 70 million U.S. small businesses had assigned HR responsibilities to employees who had other “primary” responsibilities. As the workforce and tech become more sophisticated and solutions become cheaper, that’s a trend whose momentum is only going to grow.

GoCo acquired WFHomie, an employee experience and people analytics platform for remote-first companies. With it, GoCo hopes to help its customers automate their HR workflows so that they are efficient and intuitive for employees in and out of the field. Founded in 2020, WFHomie is a Toronto-based company and platform...
We spoke with Bob Lockett, the chief diversity & talent officer at ADP. He also oversees performance management, leadership development, succession planning, engagement, culture, OD and the non-profit ADP Foundation.  What are your current DEI practices and how do you go about creating them? To create an inclusive workplace environment, employees...
Upwork will make full-time hiring available to all customers for the first time. The company announced a new end-to-end solution that will allow businesses of all sizes to find, vet, hire, onboard and pay skilled professionals in full-time work arrangements. It’s the first time Upwork has made full-time hiring available...
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...
For years, businesses have tried to glean insight into the performance and productivity of their employees, whether through employee monitoring, tracking, data collection, evaluations or some other method. Since the rise of remote and hybrid work began during the Covid-19 pandemic, these efforts have become increasingly important, even as...
Companies are quietly hiring contract workers even as they assign work to remaining employees to make up for layoffs, according to a study from ResumeBuilder.com. The company defines quiet hiring as "the practice of either hiring contract workers or asking existing employees to take on new or additional tasks." Cost-cutting measures have...
Small and medium-sized businesses will increase their technology spending during 2023, although not to pre-pandemic levels. The growth could set the stage for the increasing use of HR-related software solutions and funding of post-pandemic digital transformation efforts. The technology research and consulting firm Analysys Mason believes that the 145 million...
What is one way your small business delegates tasks to employees who are traditionally not under HR? To help you learn ways to delegate HR tasks to your employees, we asked CEOs and HR managers to share their best insights. From aligning tasks with employees’ goals to using self-service HR...
Seventy-percent (70%) of Human Resources professionals say the difficulty of complying with state and local laws has increased markedly as their companies hire more workers from more states. An increasing number of employers are hiring across wider geographies as they wrestle with increased demands for remote, hybrid, flexible and non-standard...
Transcript Mark: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. My guest today is Josh Cohen, the digital marketing director of Upnetic, a small business services platform and the Tarkenton Companies, an agency that helps businesses reach and service the SMB market. For the...