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In March, Lighthouse Research & Advisory included Salary.com’s CompAnalyst platform in its Compensation Technology Buyer’s Guide and Provider Landscape. Soon after, we spoke with Salary.com CEO Kent Plunkett, CCP, about why compensation data matters, his company's business, and how both will evolve in the post-pandemic world.  Candidates and employees recognize...
Vibe HCM added several features and resources to its engagement platform, and is fielding a pulse survey designed around COVID-19-related issues. The company said it aims to help customers quickly implement tools necessary to address state and federal legislation related to the pandemic, such as the Families First Coronavirus...
Modern Hire is offering six customizable hiring workflows that together cover over 50 jobs in industries including hospitality, delivery, logistics, retail and healthcare. The “Hiring Blueprints” are meant to provide talent acquisition teams with repeatable methods of evaluating and hiring candidates at scale once shelter-in-place orders ease and businesses begin to ramp...
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, HR practitioners have been bombarded with advice from consultants, pundits and experts on everything from remote work to telemedicine. But often they’ve found the most useful recommendations come from their peers. That’s not surprising. While others talk about “changes to the world of work” and tens of thousands...
Shiftgig updated its digital staffing platform, Deploy, to help staffing agencies undertake “more traditional” temp-to-perm or long-term assignments. The expansion broadens the type of agency that can use Deploy, which creates on-demand marketplaces for workers and enables them to choose long-term or short-term assignments. The company contends that helps agencies fill positions...
With more than 16 million Americans out of work and more layoffs expected, and financial executives taking an increasingly sober view of COVID-19’s impact on their business, some HR technology vendors may have reason to hope. While most employers are looking for ways to cut costs, and many CFOs are targeting their IT...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. LinkedIn expanded its Recruiting for Good program to help hospitals and other essential businesses recruit workers and volunteers during the pandemic. According to CNBC, the company has assigned 100 employees for about 540 hospitals, and is handling 260 other requests from healthcare organizations...
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 CFOs plan to slow down their payment of vendors in a bid to preserve cash as the coronavirus continues to spread and a global economic crisis takes hold. At the same time, most are confident they can make critical payments for at least 90 days. According to...
In the weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic began its trans-global spread, investment in HR technology totaled about $867 million. That first-quarter 2020 mark was less than the 2019 fourth quarter’s $1.1 billion, but greater than the 13-quarter average of $841 billion. The first-quarter investment activity doesn’t reflect any significant impact...