Karbon and Gusto Partner to Make Payroll Faster for Accounting Firms
Karbon and Gusto announced a partnership that embeds payroll workflow directly into Karbon’s AI‑powered practice management platform. The beta integration automatically creates payroll work items in Karbon from Gusto’s pay schedules, synchronizes deadlines, and tracks approvals in real time. It pulls Gusto client data into Karbon contacts, offers pre‑built payroll workflow templates, and surfaces payroll due dates alongside other client tasks, eliminating duplicate data entry. Karbon customers report an average 18.5‑hour weekly productivity gain per employee, and the combined solution supports firms expanding payroll as an advisory service, with general availability slated for mid‑2026.
Amazon Deploys AI Hiring Platform Connect Talent and Introduces 'Humorphism' Agents
Amazon announced Connect Talent, an AI-powered hiring system that screens, interviews and notes candidates with minimal human input, and unveiled its 'humorphism' approach to make software feel more human. The rollout, revealed at an April 27 event, signals Amazon's deeper...
Employers Are Blindsiding Candidates with AI Interviews—And Scaring Them Off
AI-driven interviews have become mainstream, with Greenhouse reporting that two‑thirds of job seekers have already faced an AI screening, a 13‑point rise in six months. The lack of disclosure is prompting candidates to abandon processes—38% quit after an AI interview...
An Interactive Center Lets Leaders Take Accommodation Tools for a Test Drive
The Standard insurance company opened an interactive accommodation center in Portland, Oregon on June 1, giving employer customers hands‑on experience with tools that help employees stay or return to work. The space, part of the Workplace Possibilities program, showcases equipment for...
Sage HCM Targets Cost Gaps Bleeding Product Manufacturers Dry
Sage introduced Sage HCM as a unified platform that merges HR, payroll, time‑tracking, and Sage Intacct financials to give manufacturers real‑time labor cost visibility. The solution tackles three profit‑draining gaps—stale quoting data, unbudgeted overtime, and unrecoverable labor variance—by delivering live...
Live Event: How a Real CHRO Uses Claude in HR
On May 7, Vidyard CHRO Sarika Lamont will host a private Insider live session demonstrating how she leverages Anthropic’s Claude AI across her HR function. The walkthrough will cover career frameworks, performance‑review calibration, manager coaching, and board‑level communication, highlighting prompt design,...
AWS Expands Amazon Connect Into AI Tools for Hiring, Healthcare, and Supply Chains
AWS unveiled four new agentic‑AI extensions to its Amazon Connect platform—Connect Decisions, Connect Talent, Connect Customer and Connect Health—bringing AI‑driven automation to supply‑chain planning, recruiting, customer support and healthcare administration while keeping humans in the loop. The tools promise real‑time...
Changing Talent Assessments with Video Games Ft. Gianluca Ferremi
WisePath CEO Gianluca Ferremi argues that most hiring failures stem from a measurement problem, not a talent shortage. Traditional assessments focus on resumes and technical tests, which capture knowledge but miss how candidates behave in real‑world, unscripted situations. WisePath uses...
Workday Bets on Recognition Retaining Employees in an AI-Driven Market
Workday announced a partnership with Achievers to power a new employee‑recognition product, replacing traditional cash bonuses with a points‑based rewards system. The platform lets staff earn points for peer‑recognition and redeem them for travel, merchandise, or experiences. Workday’s SVP of...
HrFlow.ai Raises $7M Pre‑Series A to Pursue Global AI HR Data Standard
HrFlow.ai closed a $7 million pre‑Series A financing, bringing its total capital to $10 million. Led by 115K, La Banque Postale’s venture arm and EmergingTech Ventures, the round backs the startup’s push to become the de‑facto AI‑driven HR data standard and to...
Piedmont Global Names Sarah Hamilton Head of Talent Systems, Boosting AI‑Driven Workforce Strategy
Piedmont Global announced Sarah Hamilton as Head of Talent Systems, tasking her with redesigning the firm’s talent architecture and AI‑augmented workflow. The move underscores a broader industry trend of treating talent as a strategic system rather than a traditional HR...
Unstructured Interviews Amplify Bias Amid Rising Hiring Costs
The Interview Where You Both Just Talk Is Also the Most Biased SHRM's "Recruitment Is Broken" analysis found that average cost-per-hire and time-to-hire have both increased over the past three years, the same period correlating with heavier reliance on AI screening,...
American Airlines Flight Attendants Are Now Raising Serious Concerns Over New Performance Tracking Measures… A New Dispute in the Making
American Airlines introduced a new performance‑tracking platform called “Me@Work,” which assigns each flight attendant an aggregate score based on metrics such as customer satisfaction, attendance, and safety reports. The rollout occurred without meaningful input from the Association of Professional Flight...
AI Gives You The Vocabulary. It Doesn’t Give You The Expertise via @Sejournal, @DuaneForrester
Hiring managers are noticing that candidates equipped with AI‑generated vocabularies often stumble when asked to reason through problems live. Independent research from Microsoft, the Swiss Business School and TestGorilla links heavy AI reliance to a measurable drop in critical‑thinking, especially...
Sage Rolls Out AI Agents to Automate Finance, HR and Operations Workflows
Sage unveiled a suite of task‑focused AI agents across its finance, HR and operations platforms at the Sage Future event in Atlanta on April 28, 2026. The agents, built into Sage Intacct, Sage HCM and Sage X3, are designed to...
HireClix Launches JobFlow AEO
HireClix introduced JobFlow AEO, an AI‑optimized recruitment marketing solution that structures career site content for discovery by AI‑powered search engines and large language models such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. The platform adds schema‑enhanced pages, natural‑language answers, and analytics...
Nomad Health Evolves From Staffing Agency to AI Software Company
Nomad Health announced it is shifting from a healthcare staffing agency to an AI‑powered software platform, offering its proprietary operating system to mid‑market and enterprise staffing firms. The platform, built on more than 15,000 recruiter‑less placements and 11 million billed hours,...
New HR Tech From Klaar, uRecruits
Klaar announced a new compensation module that integrates Comprehensive’s benchmarking platform, bringing AI‑driven performance data directly into its compensation planning workflow. The integration replaces spreadsheet‑based cycles, supports multi‑currency and complex bonus structures, and aims to reduce recency bias in pay...
Why the ‘AI Productivity Paradox’ Calls for HR’s Intervention
Seramount’s new report argues that the perceived drop in productivity from remote and hybrid work is actually a measurement issue, not a performance one. Leaders still rely on outdated, visibility‑based metrics while AI tools accelerate output without guaranteeing quality, creating...
Responsible AI Governance Starts With Ownership
The article asserts that responsibility for workplace AI systems rests with the organization that deploys them, not the vendors. It highlights the need for cross‑functional ownership—HR, legal, compliance, security, and business leaders must be involved before any AI goes live....
Phenom Acquires Plum to Add Behavioral Validation to AI Hiring Platform
Phenom, the applied‑AI HR infrastructure firm, announced the acquisition of Plum, a psychometric talent‑assessment platform, marking its second deal in ten weeks. The move adds behavioral‑validation technology to Phenom’s AI hiring suite, aiming to counter the rise of AI‑generated résumés...
FAHR Rolls Out 'HR 2.0 Talent Management' Programme to Modernise UAE Government Workforce
The Federal Authority for Government Human Resources (FAHR) has launched the "HR 2.0 Talent Management" programme, an eight‑module training series for 25 HR leaders from federal entities. Partnered with PwC, the initiative embeds AI, data analytics and modern HR models...
Why Language Is the Key to Shaping AI Success at Work
Executive leaders face mounting pressure to boost productivity with AI, yet employee trust remains low. A Gartner survey of 110 CHROs found 95% have launched AI initiatives, but many struggle to translate investment into business impact. Employees report 79% low...
The Power of Digitizing the Paycheck
The article argues that the traditional bi‑weekly payroll cycle is outdated in a digital economy, creating cash‑flow gaps for workers. It highlights research showing that granting earned‑wage access (EWA) can raise effective monthly income by over 11%, roughly $334, without...
HR Habitat | How Worcester Wildlife Trust Moved From Spreadsheets to Smart HR Tech
Worcester Wildlife Trust, a UK charity, upgraded from Excel‑based HR processes to a dedicated HR platform after its staff grew from 15 to 45. The change was driven by operational complexity and the need for a single source of truth...
'Self-Preference' | The New Recruitment Bias: How AI Hiring Tools May Favour AI-Written CVs
The piece highlights a new recruitment bias: AI‑driven hiring platforms may favor resumes written with large language models. While employers have long feared candidates using tools like ChatGPT, firms are now embedding the same AI into screening and ranking processes....
What Is Agentic AI and Should HR Be Using It?
HR departments are rapidly adopting agentic AI, with vendors like Oracle, Workday and Salesforce touting autonomous digital workers that can screen resumes, schedule interviews and even conduct background checks. Gartner predicts 82% of HR leaders will deploy some form of...
AI Reliance Erodes Critical Thinking, Stifles Innovation
Warning: GenAI-induced cognitive surrender may kill innovation. Consider the following, from CEO @wadhwa’s newsletter: “I have been speaking with recent graduates in India, many of them highly recommended, and on paper they look exceptional. The emails are polished, the resumes are perfect,...
Install Orange HRM: Open‑Source HR on Your Server
Orange HRM is an open-source HR system that can be installed on your servers. Here's how. https://t.co/LoalBdIhNB
WageSafe Rolls Out Real‑Time Payroll Compliance Features
WageSafe announced new payroll compliance capabilities that detect and correct payment errors in real time. The upgrade aims to help employers avoid costly compliance breaches and streamline payroll operations.
Workhuman Launches Future Leaders AI to Spot Senior Talent 3‑5 Years Early
Workhuman introduced Future Leaders™, an AI‑driven platform that predicts senior‑leadership potential three to five years before promotion. Powered by its Ascend™ engine, the tool promises data‑backed succession planning and could reduce costly executive turnover.
Workday Powers Club Med's Global HR Overhaul for 30,000 Staff
Workday is implementing its Human Capital Management platform for Club Med, covering roughly 30,000 employees across 70 resorts in 40 countries. The rollout unifies recruiting, time‑and‑attendance and talent management, addressing the hospitality group's complex, seasonal workforce.
Reverse Recruiting: Desperate Jobseekers, Pay to Play — and a New Headache for HR
Reverse recruiting lets jobseekers pay $5,000‑plus for recruiters to run their search, a trend fueled by AI‑optimized resumes and a tight labour market. In Canada, employment statutes forbid charging candidates, yet many services skirt the rules by rebranding as career...
Sage Launches AI‑Powered HCM Platform for Construction, Promising Faster Payroll
Sage announced Sage HCM, an AI‑enabled human capital management suite built on Sage Intacct, to unite payroll, HR and financial data for mid‑market construction firms in North America. The platform, showcased at Sage Future in San Francisco April 28‑30, aims to eliminate...
Multi‑Tier Staffing Vendors Hide Compliance Gaps and Fraud
The Vendor's Vendor's Vendor Sourced That Resume Multi-tier staffing vendor chains in enterprise TA have created compliance blind spots where credential verification, background checks, and identity validation get diluted or skipped entirely at lower tiers. SHRM's 2026 talent acquisition analysis flags...
The Top Senior Care Scheduling Platforms for Nurses Compared
Senior care operators are turning to specialized nurse scheduling platforms to balance labor costs with resident safety. The article reviews five leading solutions—SmartLinx, OnShift, PointClickCare Apploi Schedule, ShiftMed, and IntelyCare—highlighting features such as real‑time visibility, acuity‑aware staffing, open‑shift tools, and...
Move Fast and Track Employees
Meta announced its Model Capability Initiative, a program that will install tracking software on U.S. employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes and screenshots. The data is intended to train AI agents that can perform routine knowledge‑work tasks, and...
Employers Are Investing in Virtual Care to Close Healthcare Gaps
Employers are rapidly adopting virtual‑first primary care, with 44% planning to add such services within the next year, according to Brown & Brown. The shift moves telehealth from a pandemic‑era stopgap to a core benefit expectation, enabling coordinated episodes of...
Implementing Dayforce as the Global Single Source of Truth
Cigna’s enterprise HR team has rolled out Ceridian Dayforce as the company‑wide single source of truth for payroll, time‑keeping, benefits and workforce analytics. The cloud‑native platform consolidates disparate legacy systems into one unified data repository, enabling real‑time reporting across 70,000...
AI Now Sits on Both Sides of Hiring, Global Survey Finds
A new HireVue global survey shows AI now powers most stages of hiring, with 77% of HR teams using it regularly and 71% of candidates leveraging AI to craft resumes. While adoption has doubled and 85% of HR departments plan...
Four Mindset Shifts Every Sourcer Needs in the Age of AI
The article outlines four mindset shifts that sourcers must adopt as AI reshapes recruiting. First, they should start with broad candidate pools in tools like Clay and filter later, rather than building tight Boolean strings. Second, AI engines such as...
Workday Government Launches AI‑driven PAR Agent, Slashing Federal HR Cycle Times by up to 60%
Workday Government unveiled an AI‑powered Personnel Action Request (PAR) Agent on April 28, 2026, promising to cut federal HR transaction times by up to 60% and deliver multi‑million‑dollar savings for high‑volume agencies. The tool embeds OPM rules, automates routine steps,...
AI‑Powered Job Applications Meet Automated Rejection, Humans Excluded
She Applied to 200 Jobs. Reached Zero Humans. Job seekers are spray-applying to hundreds of roles using AI, and employers are rejecting them wholesale using AI, creating a closed loop of automated futility. Forbes documents the structural collapse: AI generates the...
HR AI Fails Without Context, Not Bad Tools
Most HR teams don’t fail at AI because of bad tools. They fail because there’s no context. AI in HR only works when it understands what matters—laws, policies, real workflows. Without that, automation gets risky fast. Ana explains why this keeps happening. Comment “HR”...
Rippling Rolls Out Automated Compliance Tool for SOC 2 Audits
Rippling, the San Francisco‑based workforce platform, unveiled an automated compliance tool that streamlines SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2 audits. The solution leverages existing HR, device‑management and identity data to recommend controls, collect evidence in real time, and automatically remediate gaps. It consolidates...
Workday’s Service Empire May Expose Vulnerability
"A $30B company with 10,000+ customers and a services cartel that’s arguably bigger than the product itself will not roll over quietly." https://t.co/eBzsJxBGUV < is Workday finally vulnerable? They've got an enviable footprint and new focus. All platforms need to...
Salesforde Launches Agentforce Operations in New Suite
MyPOV - @Salesforde is quickly building out the Agentforce complimentary suite. Today it's Agentforce Operations. - See @LDignan take on it. https://t.co/NKB1wBQynf
Global Engineering Consultancy Scales Hiring Volume by 40% and Boosts Applications by 46% with ICIMS AI Talent Explorer and Automation
KEO International Consultants partnered with iCIMS to overhaul its recruiting stack, adding iCIMS ATS, career sites, offer management, onboarding, and AI Talent Explorer. The AI‑driven automation enabled the firm to handle a 40% year‑over‑year increase in hiring volume and a...
Fluent Software Group Expands Into Australian Benefits Market
Valsoft’s Fluent Software Group Enters the Australian Workforce Benefits Vertical with the Acquisition of Eziway https://t.co/FlaQc1WZ2C https://t.co/jHJvWlndz3
AI Search Teams Up With Employees on LinkedIn
AI search efforts 🤝 your employees on LinkedIn If you want to really understand what I'm talking about, go read this: https://t.co/3msrITe0QK https://t.co/agpAsVoQJs