Technology

Coverage of developments in artificial intelligence, products that address issues from diversity to effective performance management, and developments impacting HCM system implementation and support. Also news and information on the growing market for HR technology solutions that address the needs of small and medium-sized businesses.

We haven’t seen any research reports yet on the “Outlook for Asynchronous Communications Tools in the HR Function,” but interest from employers and vendors in the idea seems to have steadily increased over the last year. On the face of it, this is counterintuitive. Messaging platforms and conversational interfaces have...
Sponsored We spoke with Ashish Bidadi, senior director and technical product manager at Lifion by ADP. We spoke of the technology the team leverages as it designs and builds ADP’s Next Gen HCM, and how the industry is taking advantage of new approaches, like low code. I think it’s fair to...
Transcript Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I’m Mark Feffer. This week: HR technology and deskless workers. Who’s leaving who behind? That’s on this week’s edition of PeopleTech, brought to you by Criteria. Finding and retaining great talent is a challenge – and Criteria can help. Their assessments...
Transcript Mark: Welcome to People Tech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. Mark: My guest today is John Halloran, CEO of Mobile Health. Using proprietary technology, they help employers build healthy cultures and programs tailored to their workforce and guide employees toward well-being. We'll talk about business technology and...
Outmatch has rebranded to Harver while, separately, Wedge launched the Wedge Hire mobile app and several new product features. Outmatch acquired Harver in May. At the time, the company said Harver’s platform complemented the assessment, video interviewing and reference-checking capabilities of its Hiring Experience Stack. The combination, Outmatch said, would...
isolved unveiled new features for its HCM platform along with a conversational AI chatbot. Initially, the new capabilities are being rolled out for Microsoft Teams. Conversational virtual assistants are becoming a standard way to interact with technology products, isolved said. Among other things, they offer users simpler ways to access...
Executives tend to focus on employee productivity, often ranking it their number one priority. Areas like workplace culture and employee satisfaction land further down the list. So it's not surprising that research by Ivanti, an automation platform, found that 62% of the C-Suite prioritizes profitability over employee experience. This has...
ADP enhanced its Wisely payment platform with advanced capabilities, a new visual identity and features including earned wage access. The addition of EWA, offered in partnership with DailyPay, provides employees with access to wages they've earned before payday at no cost, either from myWisely.com or the myWisely app. Gautam Sukumar, senior...
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...
Twitter’s parent company X Corp. has made its first acquisition since billionaire Elon Musk took over, a startup called Laskie, which develops job-matching technology. But looking at the conversation around the deal, it’s hard to shake the notion that it’s more about commerce than jobs. For some time, Musk has...