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.

Paycor unveiled a new employee engagement product that uses natural language processing to convert written information into data around employee sentiment. The company said the product, Paycor Pulse will help executives identify issues leading to turnover, low morale and other challenges. Paycor believes the product’s timing is right because of the...
You can love data, you can hate data, but you can’t argue that it’s not important to hiring. We’re going to talk about what that means on the ground – to recruiters and talent acquisition specialists – with today’s guest – Michael Fitzsimmons, the CEO of Crosschq. They provide...
Qualtrics announced new XM Benchmarks that will help give organizations insights to make decisions based on Qualtrics’ experience data and analytics. The new Benchmarks are a product of feedback from Qualtrics’ nearly 17,000 customers in addition to targeted panel data from surveys. According to Qualtrics, their collection of human sentiment...
Danielle DavidMarketing Manager, Montara Inc. Covid-19 dramatically disrupted the way we work. Today’s workplaces are more dynamic, with change happening faster than ever before. In order to succeed in this new world, organizations are increasingly realizing that they need to have a more powerful real-time understanding of their employees. But...
Visier acquired the assets of Boostrs, an API-first skills mapping engine. By integrating Boostrs data into its own platform, the company said it will be able to add capabilities to compile and present internal and external workforce data. “Adding Boostrs to Visier’s technology stack gives our customers an essential linkage...
Fifty-two percent of executives said they are unable make “critical” workplace decisions because of a lack of data, according to a recent report from Envoy. The research found that 80% of the same executives would have approached their return to office (RTO) initiatives and policies differently if they had...
Technology executives say the coronavirus has had a “devastating” impact on the business-technology supply chain, leaving large employers without thousands of new computers and examining how and when they’ll carry through on plans to distribute new tools and applications to their workforce. The comments were made in an interview held just before the federal...
Sponsored Data and technology are bedrocks of today’s talent acquisition world, but they also make the TA team’s job complex. Consider: When sourcing candidates, employers navigate through a range of data sets and systems. LinkedIn has its database, Indeed has another, Dice has another. Then, as they move into the...
The days of walking into a business, résumé in-hand, to apply for an open position are over. Companies everywhere funnel job seekers to online applications where algorithms sort through and surface the best candidates. At the same time, a lot’s been made of the potential for talent acquisition platforms to...