AI-Led Job Cuts Don’t Always Mean Stronger ROI — Gartner
Gartner’s survey of 350 global leaders using AI agents reveals that 80% have cut staff, some by as much as 20%, yet those reductions show no link to higher return on AI investment. The firm stresses that ROI is driven more by revenue growth, speed to market, and productivity gains than by headcount reductions. Companies that upskill employees and embed AI proficiency into performance metrics outperform those that focus solely on layoffs. Gartner also predicts AI will generate roughly 6 million new jobs by 2029, outpacing the roles it automates.
6 Best Employee Engagement Software: My Evaluation
Employee engagement software has become critical for remote and hybrid workplaces. G2 evaluated over 20 solutions and highlighted six top tools—Workvivo, Connecteam, Workhuman Social Recognition, HiBob HRIS, Achievers, and Vantage Circle—based on user reviews, feature sets, and adoption metrics. Each...
Episode 452: Kathleen McDonough and Derek Williamson Talk About Recruitment Technology, Drawing a Line in the Sand with AI, and...
In Episode 452, co‑founders Kathleen McDonough and Derek Williamson of EverRecruiting discuss how hiring has become a numbers‑driven, inefficient process, especially in service‑focused industries where frontline managers are asked to use clunky recruiting software. They argue that the surge of...
Overlooked Tool to Help with Mental Well-Being | 2-Minute Video
HRMorning’s 3‑Point episode highlights an often‑overlooked resource for employee mental‑well‑being: existing productivity tools such as time‑tracking data. Hannah Yardley of Achievers explains that managers can reinterpret drops in productivity as possible burnout signals, allowing faster intervention. The approach centers on...
What Sets Successful Recruitment Firms Apart?
Recruitment firms that prioritize trust, technology, talent development, and solid business foundations outperform competitors. Transparent communication builds client and candidate confidence, while data‑driven tools streamline hiring without compromising quality. Investing in continuous recruiter training and regular tech‑stack audits ensures teams...
ServiceNow's AI Blitz: Acquires Moveworks, Veza and Armis to Supercharge HR Automation
ServiceNow announced the rapid acquisition of AI startups Moveworks, Veza and Armis, targeting tighter workflow automation for its HR Service Delivery suite. The moves come as the $94 billion‑valued firm battles a 38% year‑to‑date stock decline and seeks fresh growth beyond...
ZDNET Flags AI Agent Sprawl, Calls for Agent Management Platforms as New HR‑Tech
ZDNET’s latest analysis warns that the global AI agent population, now at 28.6 million, could exceed 2.2 billion by 2030, creating a governance nightmare for enterprises. The outlet urges firms to treat agent management platforms as a core HR‑technology, likening them to...
He Couldn’t Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?
A recent Wired feature follows Chad Markey, a senior medical student who struggled to secure a residency interview despite strong credentials. He discovered that hospitals were using AI‑driven applicant‑tracking systems that automatically filtered candidates before human review. The algorithm flagged...
Pearson CHRO Ali Bebo: Do Not Treat Learning as Something Separate From Work
Pearson’s chief human‑resources officer Ali Bebo says AI should augment, not replace, workers. The company’s DEEP framework—Diagnose, Embed, Evaluate, Prioritize—maps tasks to skills, embeds learning directly into daily workflows, and measures real‑time usage. A flagship example is the AI‑powered Communication...
Why Genetic Screening Should Be a Family Benefit
Employers are urged to add population‑based pediatric genetic screening to their benefits portfolios as a preventive health measure. Advances in sequencing technology and updated pediatric guidelines make early detection feasible, while the hidden costs of undiagnosed childhood conditions—missed workdays, stress,...
AWS Moves Further Into Enterprise Applications with Quick, Connect Talent, Connect Decisions and Connect Health
AWS’s recent "What’s next with AWS" event unveiled a suite of AI‑driven enterprise tools, beginning with Amazon Quick, a copilot‑style platform that self‑optimizes models while enforcing corporate guardrails. The Connect family was rebranded and expanded to include Connect Decisions for...
Hiring Managers Deploy AI to Filter Surging Applications
Nearly three‑quarters of hiring managers now employ AI tools to screen candidates, according to MyPerfectResume’s new report. The technology acts as the first decision‑maker, automatically rejecting up to 50 percent of applications before any human review. While AI delivers speed and...
CARSOME and Darwinbox Partner to Reinvent Employee Experience with AI-First HR and Native Payroll for 3,000 Employees Across Southeast Asia
CARSOME, Southeast Asia’s largest integrated car‑e‑commerce platform, has appointed Darwinbox as its strategic HR‑technology partner to deploy an AI‑first Human Capital Management suite for over 3,000 employees across Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand. The rollout began with core HCM functions...
HR Leaders Launch Framework to Prioritize Employee Data Trust Over Compliance
HR executives are adopting a strategic framework that places employee data trust above regulatory compliance, aiming to strengthen fairness, culture, and credibility as AI tools proliferate. The approach responds to growing scrutiny of hiring algorithms and emerging regulations such as...
Workhuman Debuts AI‑Powered ‘Future Leaders’ Tool to Spot High‑Potential Talent
Workhuman introduced Future Leaders, an AI‑powered platform that leverages its Ascend AI engine to surface high‑potential employees well before they enter formal leadership pipelines. The solution promises to cut the cost of senior‑level mis‑hires by using real‑time workplace interaction data.
Performance Reimagined: How AI Is Reshaping the Future of Work
The article argues that traditional annual performance reviews are out of step with today’s fast‑moving, hybrid workplaces. Advances in artificial intelligence are allowing companies to turn performance data into real‑time business intelligence, linking goals, feedback, and skill development. Betterworks promotes...
Payroll Pulse: AI, the Payroll Ledger, and the Real Meaning of ‘Touchless Payroll’
AI is rapidly entering payroll systems, promising "touchless" processing, but it remains distinct from deterministic automation. While AI can flag anomalies, summarize legislation, and suggest adjustments, the payroll ledger still requires human oversight to ensure gross‑to‑net accuracy before the ACH...
Workforce Analytics Market to Grow 14.8% CAGR Through 2033
A new market report projects the global workforce analytics market to expand at a 14.8% compound annual growth rate through 2033. The outlook is anchored in heightened macro‑economic volatility, AI‑driven insights and a surge in CFO‑led digital initiatives, positioning analytics...
A New Way of Searching for Jobs with LinkedIn
LinkedIn has overhauled its job‑search engine, replacing keyword matching with an AI‑driven semantic and natural‑language system. The new interface lets users pose conversational queries, even via voice, and returns results with transparent relevance explanations. LinkedIn reports fewer irrelevant listings and...
Workday Bets Big on Federal HR Overhaul
Workday is positioning itself to win the federal government's HR modernization effort, targeting the OMB’s ten‑year Federal HR 2.0 procurement slated for a November award. The company has expanded its government unit from seven staff to roughly 400, opening a Reston,...
Florida Monetized Test Scores
The Curve Weekly highlights four major shifts shaping K‑12 markets. Florida enacted HB 1279 and SB 1296, converting advanced‑course assessment results into teacher payroll incentives and tightening union‑dues rules. Houston ISD introduced a $500 per‑student academic‑need subsidy while centralizing budget control, signaling...
UKG Makes AI a Cost Lever as Southwest and Nike Reset the Economics of Workforce Investment
UKG announced a restructuring that eliminates about 950 roles, roughly 5% of its workforce, and attributes the cuts to AI‑driven productivity gains, positioning L&D efficiency as a CFO metric ahead of Q2 budgeting. Southwest Airlines reported a 4.6% operating margin,...
DeKalb County HR Policy Council Goes Digital, Cutting Grievances by 50% and Boosting Attendance 67%
DeKalb County, Ga., shifted its quarterly HR policy council meetings to a virtual platform, driving a 67% jump in attendance and a 50% drop in employee grievances. The move also accelerated FMLA processing for its 6,600 staff, showcasing how digital...
The Severance Problem: ICIMS and the Identity Crisis Every Legacy ATS Is About to Face
iCIMS used its AI Executive Summit to showcase a rebranded, AI‑first platform called Coalesce AI and a new integration framework aimed at modernizing its legacy applicant tracking system. The company highlighted a "crawl, walk, run" roadmap, but most of its...
HRDA Frankly Speaking: The AI Outcomes of SPARK HR
McKesson’s senior talent leader Jenessa Disler addressed the growing presence of AI in human resources at the SPARK HR event, unveiling the CLEAR framework—Culture signals, Leader behavior, Engagement infrastructure, AI intentionality, and Readiness at scale. The model aims to give...
FIS’ New Cloud-Based Record-Keeping System Could Unlock the Potential of 401(k) Plans
FIS Global Retirement is set to launch a cloud‑based record‑keeping platform in July 2026 that consolidates its Omni and Relius systems, adding AI‑driven analytics and third‑party integration. The legacy COBOL architecture, which underpins services for 68 million participants, has limited innovation...
HONO Launches Zero‑UI HR Platform, Ditching Dashboards for Conversational AI
Enterprise software company HONO introduced a headless, Zero‑UI HRMS that replaces traditional dashboards with natural‑language interactions on existing collaboration tools. The platform leverages Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol to pull real‑time data from enterprise systems, aiming to let AI execute HR...
Top 7 Modern AI-Powered EAP Providers for Global Workforces in 2026
Traditional employee assistance programs are used by only 1‑3% of workers, prompting a surge in AI‑powered EAP solutions that promise higher engagement and faster care. Providers such as Spring Health, Kyan Health, Lyra Health, Modern Health, Unmind, Wysa and Yuna...
Starbucks Elevates Barista to Menu Architect as AI-Run Café Tests Future of Employment
Starbucks announced that a former part‑time barista now leads menu development for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, underscoring the power of internal mobility. At the same time, San Francisco startup Andon Labs opened an AI‑managed café in Stockholm, raising...
Scale Teams by Multiplying Digital Workers, Not Headcount
What does it mean to scale a team when part of your workforce is digital labor? #Sponsored At @salesforce TDX, I sat down with Brandon Metcalf, CEO of @Asymbl_Inc, and what he shared challenged the assumption that growth is tied to...
Resume Builder Market Faces Antitrust Lawsuit Over Fake Competition
1/10 Type "resume builder" into Google. You'll see a wall of logos. Monster. Zety. LiveCareer. Resume Genius. CareerBuilder. Looks like competition. A new antitrust lawsuit says it's theater. Read the thread.🧵
Beyond Compliance: A Strategic HR Framework for Employee Data Trust
The article argues that HR’s expanding use of AI, workforce monitoring and data‑driven decision‑making turns employee data into a strategic leadership issue, not just a compliance checkbox. It stresses that mishandling data erodes trust, fairness, culture and corporate credibility. To...
Beyond Compliance: A Strategic HR Framework for Employee Data Trust
HR leaders are confronting a strategic dilemma as AI, monitoring tools, and data‑driven decision‑making expand the scope of employee data. The rise of automated hiring screens threatens to marginalize "hidden workers" and erode fairness, prompting regulators such as New York...
KNEX Launches AI Agent Pack for PeopleSoft to Simplify HR Processes and Enhance Employee Experience
KNEX Technology, an Oracle partner, unveiled its AI Agent Pack for PeopleSoft, delivering three domain‑specific agents that translate benefits, payslips and leave balances into conversational, plain‑language explanations. The agents embed directly into existing PeopleSoft HR modules, eliminating the need for...
JobNet Group Launches Advanced AI-Powered Job Description Generator to Transform Hiring Efficiency
JobNet Group, the leading digital recruitment platform in Myanmar and Cambodia, has unveiled an AI‑powered Job Description Generator. The tool lets employers input basic details—title, location, experience level—and instantly produces professional, structured postings. It operates in five languages (Myanmar, Khmer,...
Traliant Appoints Evan Kramer as Chief Executive Officer to Accelerate Next Phase of Innovation in HR Compliance
Traliant announced the appointment of Evan Kramer as its new chief executive officer, bringing a background in education technology and SaaS growth. The leadership change is timed with Traliant’s push to modernize HR compliance training through immersive, outcome‑driven experiences. The...
Startup Profile: Meld
Meld is an AI‑powered career development platform designed for the next generation of women leaders. Positioned in the Future of Work and HR‑Tech space, it combines personalized skill assessments, mentorship matching, and salary benchmarking to accelerate professional growth. The startup...
Jobsync Roundtable: Candidate Fraud in Hiring
In this JobSync roundtable, host Chris Russell and panelists Leah Daniels, Alex Murphy, Julie Kelly, along with guests Andrew Godomsky of Aspen Analytics and Jason Roberts of Cielo, dissect the rising problem of candidate fraud in hiring. They define fraud...
Emotion AI Tools Like MorphCast Bring Real‑time Employee Sentiment Monitoring to the Workplace
Emerging emotion‑AI platforms such as MorphCast are being licensed to mental‑health apps, schools and brands like McDonald’s, and are now embedded in Zoom, Slack and Azure to analyze employee feelings in real time. The rollout promises richer engagement data but...
ServiceNow Leverages AI Control Tower to Boost HR Services Amid SaaS Downturn
ServiceNow is positioning its AI Control Tower, introduced in May 2025, as a way to modernize HR operations while the company battles a 52% stock decline and a broader SaaS slowdown. The platform lets enterprises orchestrate AI agents across functions,...
Global Payroll Is a Strategic Problem. AI Is Finally Solving It.
Global payroll has long been treated as a fragmented, operational chore, relying on a patchwork of local vendors and costly reconciliation. Recent AI advances shift payroll from assistance to autonomous execution, delivering "zero‑click" processing that cuts workforce‑management expenses by roughly...
Your AI CV Just Got You Rejected
A federal court in California authorized a collective‑action notice allowing anyone over 40 who applied through Workday’s AI hiring platform since September 2020 to join a class‑action lawsuit. The case, Mobley v. Workday, alleges that the AI system systematically down‑weights older,...
Zensai Introduces Human Success Agent for Microsoft Agent 365, Redefining AI-Driven Learning and Human Success in the Flow of Work
Zensai announced the general availability of its Human Success Agent, a partner AI agent built on Microsoft Agent 365. The solution embeds real‑time workforce performance, engagement and skill data directly into Microsoft 365 apps, leveraging Microsoft Entra for secure governance....
Why SWIFT Is Too Slow for Your Global Workforce?
Traditional SWIFT‑based payroll can take five business days as payments bounce through multiple correspondent banks, incurring fees and eroding the amount received. Companies are turning to regulated stablecoins for payroll settlement, allowing funds to move directly on a blockchain in...
What Is Resume Fraud (and How to Detect It)?
Resume fraud has evolved from simple embellishments to AI‑generated, fully fabricated work histories that can be produced in seconds. Around 70% of workers admit to lying on their resumes, and 60% of those candidates still secure jobs, driving an estimated...
How to Improve the Candidate Experience During AI Video Interviews
AI video interviews promise up to 50% faster hires and 40% lower costs, yet many candidates feel anxious, confused, and disengaged. The article argues that the technology alone isn’t enough; the candidate experience determines whether efficiency gains translate into better...
Faces of HR: Josh Skorupa on Knowing when to Pivot – or Kill – AI-Enabled Work that Creates No Value
Josh Skorupa, Head of Digital Transformation & Capability at Singapore’s GovTech, says AI is a foundational infrastructure, not a strategy. He urges leaders to focus on clear business outcomes and to halt AI projects that deliver no value. Skorupa’s experience...
Candidate Fraud: The Warning Signs HR Should Watch Out For
AI tools are enabling sophisticated candidate fraud, with Gartner predicting one in four applicants will be fake by 2028. HR leaders now confront coordinated fake submissions that include synthetic identities, deep‑fake video, and polished portfolios. Experts advise deploying automated verification...
Understanding the Science Behind AI-Based Hiring Assessments
HireVue introduced Assessment Builder, an AI‑powered platform that lets recruiters quickly create scientifically validated hiring assessments for any role, from high‑volume positions to niche executive jobs. The tool parses job descriptions, generates role‑specific tests, and offers adjustable AI involvement, including...
Recruiters Turn to AI in Quest to Find the Perfect Connection
Recruiters are grappling with an “AI doom loop” as generative AI floods hiring pipelines with double the applications per job since 2022. While AI tools help automate résumé drafting, screening and even interview stages, they also dilute signal quality, making...