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Salesforce’s Slack messaging unit, acquired some two years ago for $27.7 billion, hasn’t been burning up the landscape, says The Wall Street Journal. At the time of the acquisition, Salesforce expected that together, the two companies would “transform the way everyone works in the all-digital, work-from-anywhere world.” Some HR departments...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Listen to a podcast of our roundup. HR Acuity unveiled an employee relations maturity model, the Employee Relations Quotient or ER/Q. With the tool, employee relations teams can establish a baseline for their current maturity level based on the...
Transcript Mark: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Pfeffer. My guest today is Amit Parmar, the CEO of Cliquify. They're an employee branding platform that helps recruiters and hiring managers create employer branding solutions that result faster cycle times, cost savings, and engagement....
A significant number of employers face rising issues related to their IT security, including security challenges, HR-employee burnout and struggles with performance, according to a pair of recently released studies. The first, the State of Hiring and Recruiting from KarmaCheck and Findem, said HR leaders are experiencing burnout at a high rate,...
Engagedly launched Team Pulse, a listening tool that uses a recurring set of questions that are sent out to employees on a set frequency. Employees can then come up with responses, collaborate with peers and managers, and become more active in the engagement process. On the other side of the...
Transcript Mark: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. My guest today is Taylor Liggett, the Head of Identity Services at Sterling. We're going to talk about the technology behind background checks, what candidates want from the process and where the industry's going, all...
Barely a month after it hit unicorn status, Beamery said it’s laying off “around 12%” of its workforce. According to Tech.EU, UK-based Beamery informed its staff about the cut backs during an all-hands call on Tuesday. The call was followed by a company-wide email that said it intended to let...
LinkedIn introduced new features to its platform, including updates to Job Search, as well as improved accessibility, post scheduling and content analytics. Most notable are changes to LinkedIn's job search function, said Search Engine Journal. Many workers are looking through job postings more casually, and on a more regular basis, LinkedIn...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Listen to a podcast of our roundup. The pandemic years made young workers more ambitious, even as their older colleagues grew less ambitious, according to new research from Qualtrics. In a study of 3,000 working Americans, Qualtrics found that...
Companies using AI and other tools to help them plan and execute layoffs during a recession may face legal and compliance issues if it turns out their systems are biased. Capterra’s HR Tech Recession Planning Survey of 300 HR leaders found that 72% of those surveyed say their organization has...