Despite "well-intentioned efforts," the technology industry continues to struggle with diversity, according to InformationWeek. The news service found that one in four companies said their teams were over 70% white, while 73% reported having no Black leaders at all in their executive ranks. In addition, the average percentage of women...
Upwork will make full-time hiring available to all customers for the first time. The company announced a new end-to-end solution that will allow businesses of all sizes to find, vet, hire, onboard and pay skilled professionals in full-time work arrangements.
It’s the first time Upwork has made full-time hiring available...
Hybrid and remote work has been on the rise since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, and companies are finally working out the flaws in their own hybrid work models. However, there’s still a long way to go to make these environments as effective and efficient as possible. From...
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Workday announced a $250 million expansion of its Workday Ventures fund. The company is expanding the fund to focus on larger growth areas, including emerging technologies like generative AI. The fund will...
Talespin, a company that provides virtual reality solutions for workforce skills development, released “Where’d Everybody Go?”, a new learning product. It was launched in partnership with learning industry powerhouse Pearson.
"Where'd Everybody Go?" includes a virtual world, virtual human simulations and an interactive narrative that looks and feels much like...
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Mark:
Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer.
My guest today is Christine Tao, the co-founder and CEO of Sounding Board. They're a leader development platform that combines solution design, software, people to people development and data and insights. We're going to talk about...
More than half of diversity, equity and inclusion leaders -- 51% of them -- say the greatest hurdle they face lies in executives failing to take ownership of driving DEI outcomes. According to Gartner, additional challenges include limited power to drive decisions, ineffective coordination of DEI efforts across business...
GoCo.io announced the availability of its winter product release, which aims to add flexibility and automation to the employee management platform.
Michael Gugel, GoCo’s co-founder and chief product officer, said the release adds a new template library, enhancements to onboarding, and new integrations with E-Verify by Tracker I-9, popular learning...
SilkRoad completed a two-way integration between its candidate sourcing and applicant tracking systems, which the company said will create an end-to-end talent solution that covers the entire talent lifecycle.
The combined systems, Search and Recruiting, will help organizations identify, reach, engage and convert talent, the company said. The integration's goal...
