A number of HR leaders have speculated that employers’ attitudes toward remote work will have changed permanently once the COVID-19 pandemic ends. New research shows that thinking’s warranted.
Some three-quarters of CFOs—74 percent—plan to shift at least 5 percent of their employees to remote work, according to Gartner. Nearly a...
Paylocity has acquired VidGrid, a video platform that
provides two-way, peer-to-peer learning courses. The companies aren’t strangers
to each other: They’ve worked together for several years to deliver video learning
to Paylocity clients.
Those efforts created the opportunity for the companies to
join forces as one entity, Paylocity said.
Employees have put increasing emphasis...
Providers of virtual
recruiting technology have seen a dramatic increase in customer interest over
the last few weeks as employers shift their talent acquisition efforts online. One
of them, San Francisco-based Turazo, said it’s receiving more inquiries and
conversations have begun moving more quickly since shelter-in-place directives
began appearing in March.
Turazo’s campus-recruiting
platform is receiving...
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Kronos and
Ultimate Software completed their merger, creating an HR
technology company with $3 billion in revenue and 12,000 employees. Kronos CEO Aron
Ain leads the new organization, which will reportedly add 6,000 employees
over the next six years. Industry analysts say...
Providing emotional support has become a critical issue as HR departments scramble to set up and manage remote workforces.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation more people are reporting mental health challenges because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the most recent KFF Health Tracking poll, 45 percent of Americans...
HR departments are heads down today as they
adapt to the changes wrought by Covid-19. But at some point, employers will
look ahead to face a new normal. When they do, early indications are that
executives will move cautiously.
HR’s front lines are now preoccupied with three challenges: setting up employees to work...
A growing number of HR technology companies
have added features or opened up content designed to help employers, customers
or not, navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. Two new initiatives seek to help
employers understand how the virus is impacting their workforce.
Rizing, an SAP SuccessFactors implementation partner, created a SuccessFactors configuration that uses World...
Job boards have begun to feel the coronavirus’s
impact on hiring. As employers in most sectors of the economy suspend or slow
their hiring plans, several have implemented hiring freezes and at least one,
ZipRecruiter, has imposed layoffs.
According to media reports, ZipRecruiter began reducing its staff by between 30 and 40 percent...
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Paychex reported revenue of $1.1 billion for its fiscal third quarter, which ended Feb. 29, 2020. That’s an increase of 7 percent from the year-ago period. Net income and diluted EPS each increased 9 percent, to $354.5 million...
Nearly a month after the coronavirus forced businesses to shift millions of employees to remote work, North America’s infrastructure is holding up, with some signs of strain.
Technology executives have expressed concern about whether local internet nodes can support the increase in traffic being generated from home workspaces. “The infrastructure...
