The Covid-19 pandemic has sharpened employers’ focus on employee experience, with more than nine in 10 of them (94%) saying improving experience will be a top priority over the next three years. That’s up from 54% before the virus struck, according to a survey by Willis Towers Watson.
The numbers...
People analytics firm Visier raised $125 million in a Series E funding round, bringing its estimated value to about $1 billion. Visier said it’s the first vendor in the space to reach so high a valuation.
The company is benefitting from what CEO Ryan Wong called an “unprecedented demand for...
Quinyx and EduMe formed a new integration partnership meant to satisfy the information needs of deskless workers in industries such as logistics, hospitality and retail. The companies have positioned their joint offering as a way to support business growth and reduce costs.
The deskless workforce of 2.7 billion people represent...
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Oracle HCM added a solution to help organizations understand, manage and grow their workforce’s skills. Oracle Dynamic Skills gives HR and business leaders a comprehensive view of the skills within their workforce...
Phenom launched Integration and Configuration Experience, a collection of self-service tools that apply automation to initial implementations and simplify change management. The company estimates the tools will cut initial deployment time by four weeks, and save its customers 20,000 hours this year.
By analyzing 1,000-plus deployments, Phenom identified a set...
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Mark Feffer: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. My guest today is Mark Vickers. He's the Chief Research Analyst and Data Wrangler at the HR.com Research Institute. He oversees and edits the primary research that HR.com conducts on its own and with...
Salesforce expanded the scope of its Work.com platform with well-being, learning and automation features. The products join Work.com’s existing workspace, help desk and IT service tools.
According to ZDnet, Salesforce is now formally moving into the market for HR and experience solutions. With Work.com’s new features, Salesforce will more directly...
DailyPay and UKG expanded their partnership to offer more on-demand pay features through UKG Pro, an HCM solution that targets medium and large enterprises. The pay-on-demand platform already has integrations in place with other UKG products, including UKG Dimensions and UKG Ready.
DailyPay's technology platform includes PayEx, a services suite...
Pymetrics partnered with HiredScore on a solution to and manage candidates and evaluate their potential based on a combination of hard and soft skills.
Among other things, the companies said their solution will “proactively” ensure that their algorithms avoid any kind of demographic bias.
Together, HiredScore's HR intelligence and Pymetrics’ recently...
WorkForce Software, which provides enterprise-level workforce management solutions, launched a version of its Workforce Suite that integrates a range of experience capabilities designed for deskless employees.
Taken together, the package is designed to facilitate in-the-moment interactions between managers and workers. Among the capabilities delivered in the release are two-way communications...
