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.

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...
Willis Towers Watson is quietly extending its reach into the market for small- and medium-sized HR services with the introduction of The HR Trove, an online store offering turn-key products to organizations with fewer employees than its traditional customers. To our knowledge, the site's unveiling has not been previously reported. The...
The number of people choosing independent work surged to a record-breaking 34% during 2021, jumping from 38.2 million in 2020 to 51.1 million last year. “An undercurrent that has been simmering reached a boiling point when people were forced out of the office and into alternative work arrangements,” said Miles...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Listen to a roundup of our podcast. BambooHR announced an integration with Slack to streamline time-off requests, calculate time-off balances and access employee directories, all within the Slack app. The integration streamlines HR logistics so that users can manage...
We talk with Danielle Price, senior partner manager at Intuit, about Quickbooks Time, the company’s time-tracking solution, and some of the technology and partnerships behind it. Transcript Mark: Welcome to People Tech, the podcast of The HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. Mark: My guest today is Danielle Price, senior partner manager at...
BambooHR unveiled product features that will streamline the hiring and onboarding of new employees. With them, the company's customers can leverage integrations with popular job boards, simplifying promotion and increasing the visibility of job openings. In addition, users can create and manage candidate talent pools and more precisely tailor...
Transcript Mark Feffer: Welcome to People Tech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. My guest today is Joe DeSilva, president of small business services, retirements services, and insurance services at ADP. He just oversaw the launch of Roll, an app that lets small business owners run...