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Nearly half of HR leaders, 46%, say that HR technology is their top spending priority this year, followed by staffing and recruiting, total rewards and learning and development, according to research by Gartner. High inflation, intense competition for talent and global supply constraints are, leading organizations to focus on “growth...
Transcript Mark: Welcome to PeopleTech the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I’m Mark Feffer. My guest today is Ryan Naylor, the CEO of VIVAHR. VIVAHR aims to help businesses, mostly small businesses leverage their culture to improve their efforts in talent acquisition. We’re going to talk about how that works,...
Hireology rolled out a new integration with Indeed, further expanding the companies’ partnership. The integration will allow Hireology customers to drive more relevant job applicants from Indeed, the company said. With the integration, all new or updated external jobs created in Hireology will be sent directly to Indeed via an...
Qualtrics will go private after accepting a $12.5 billion buyout offer from Silver Lake Management and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.   Silver Lake, CPP Investments and their co-investors will acquire all of the outstanding shares Silver Lake does not already own, including the entirety of SAP’s majority ownership interest. The...
The global contingent workforce management industry generated $171.5 trillion in 2021, and will reach an estimated $465.2 trillion by 2031, a CAGR of 10.5% from 2022 to 2031. According to Allied Market Research, the growth is driven by an increasing demand for flexible workforces, shifting demographics and labor force...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Listen to a podcast of our roundup. Lattice launched its People Strategy Group (PSG), a consulting collective. The company said the network is designed to help senior leaders build effective people programs, improve employee engagement, maximize team performance and...
Despite innumerable layoffs in recent months and a possible economic downturn, recruiting still holds promise in 2023, according to a recent report by Gem. The 2023 Recruiting Trends report found that 24% of recruiting organizations saw reductions in force in the last half of 2022—but 33% of smaller organizations...
ActivTrak added two new features, Workforce Capacity and Impact Analysis, to its suite of solutions. The company said the additions will support “data-informed workforce planning and organizational design, and help organizations optimize efficiency and identify cost savings.” ActivTrak, which was founded in 2009, is a workforce productivity and analytics software...
Alight, provider of integrated digital human capital and business solutions, saw revenue growth 7.4% to over $3 billion dollars in 2022, with nearly a third of that coming in during the final quarter of the year. In addition, the company’s business process as a service (BPaaS) revenue grew 44.6%...
We spoke with Tiffany Pilgrim, founder and technology advisor at Corelini PR, a technology public relations agency. A U.S. Army veteran, she has worked in media, fine arts and UX design. What is ambient computing? Ambient computing, or ambient Intelligence – which is also sometimes known as ubiquitous computing – is...