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, is delivered in four suites that automate clinician engagement, recruiter sourcing, credentialing, and analytics. Tommy Hickey, formerly of Epic Systems, was named CEO to lead the scale‑up. Nomad positions the solution as a complete “System of Action” that can replace traditional ATS and CRM stacks.
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 Leaders still rely on outdated, visibility‑based metrics while AI tools accelerate output without guaranteeing quality, creating...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,...
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
Checkr Launches Profiles, Giving People a Verified Identity That Travels With Them
Checkr unveiled Checkr Profiles, a portable identity solution that lets individuals create and share verified credentials across marketplaces and hiring platforms. The service aims to counter rising AI‑generated resumes and synthetic‑identity fraud, which 60% of managers say threaten hiring integrity....
How Disintermediation Is Being Managed in Rx Models
Employers are moving away from traditional, single‑vendor pharmacy benefit managers, with transparent PBM adoption climbing to 31% in 2025 from 12% in 2024. This disintermediation creates multi‑vendor configurations that split claims, rebates, specialty management, and clinical navigation across separate partners....
Aon Identifies Gap Between AI Ambition and Workforce Investment in Human Capital Trends Study
Aon’s inaugural Human Capital Trends Study reveals a widening gap between AI ambition and workforce investment. While 88% of employers anticipate new skill requirements and 73% have deployed or piloted AI, only 18% report that most of their staff have...
Amazon Connect Launches Four Agentic AI Solutions for Hiring, CX, and Healthcare
Amazon announced that its Connect suite now includes four purpose‑built, agentic AI solutions—Decisions, Talent, Customer, and Health—targeting supply‑chain planning, hiring, CX, and clinical workflows. The rollout leverages Amazon’s operational data and foundation models to embed AI directly into existing business...
Tips on a Prepaid Card: A Practical Solution with Broad Industry Impacts
In this episode of Payments Journal, host Rima Katz talks with Ben Osmond of U.S. Bank and Jordan Hirshfield of Javelin about how prepaid cards are reshaping tip distribution, payroll, and off‑cycle payments in hospitality and the gig economy. They...
AI Is Reshaping Entry-Level Hiring. Where Will New Grads Go?
Entry‑level hiring is being reshaped by AI, prompting many firms to cut junior roles. LinkedIn’s 2026 Grad Guide identifies AI engineer, marketing coordinator, recruitment assistant, legal specialist and HR operations specialist as the fastest‑growing positions for new graduates. The report...
AI Is Reshaping Entry-Level Hiring. Where Will New Grads Go?
AI-driven automation is eliminating a sizable share of entry‑level positions, prompting a sharp decline in traditional graduate hiring pipelines. Surveys indicate that about 30 percent of routine tasks can now be performed by AI, forcing employers to prioritize candidates with data‑analysis,...
Who Controls Your Employer Brand in the Age of AI Search?
Organizations continue pouring money into dedicated employer‑brand sites and polished job descriptions, yet candidates increasingly encounter company information through AI‑driven search tools rather than traditional career pages. A new "2026 State of AI Search" report shows that generative assistants are...
Who Controls Your Employer Brand in the Age of AI Search?
Employers are losing control of their employer brand as AI assistants replace Google as the first point of candidate research. An AirOps study shows only 15% of AI‑driven brand mentions come from owned content, while 85% originate from external sites....
Recruitics Launches AdaptiveApply™ Featuring ID.me to Bring Verified Identity to the Top of the Hiring Funnel
Recruitics unveiled AdaptiveApply™, an AI‑powered candidate experience platform that integrates ID.me’s digital identity verification directly into the job application flow. By embedding verification at the top of the hiring funnel, the solution aims to cut fraudulent, bot‑generated and synthetic applications...
TGIF: Friday Is the New Litmus Test for Hybrid Work
Envoy's new report, based on four years of anonymized workplace data, shows Friday in‑office attendance has fallen to a national average of about 10%, far below the Tuesday‑Thursday core days. Attendance varies by industry, size and geography—retail/CPG and tech dip...
FAHR Unveils 'HR 2.0 Talent Management' Programme to Modernize UAE Government Workforce
The Federal Authority for Government Human Resources (FAHR) launched its "HR 2.0 Talent Management" programme in partnership with PwC, kicking off with 25 HR leaders from federal entities. The eight‑module initiative aims to embed data‑driven and AI‑enabled practices across UAE...
South Africa's Changing Compliance Landscape Calls for Smarter HR Dashboards
South Africa’s evolving compliance regime is forcing organisations to replace static HR reports with dynamic, insight‑driven dashboards. New mandates under the Companies Amendment Act, King V and PoPIA require real‑time visibility into remuneration, pay‑gap metrics and data‑privacy controls. By embedding legislative...
8 Applicant Tracking System Courses to Master ATS Proficiency
The article reviews eight top Applicant Tracking System (ATS) courses, ranging from broad HR certifications like the HRCI PHR prep to platform‑specific trainings for Greenhouse, Zoho Recruit, and iCIMS, as well as platform‑agnostic options such as Elevify and beginner‑focused programs...
Trinidad and Tobago Launches VerifyTT Platform to Digitize Academic and Employment Credentials
State-owned iGovTT launched VerifyTT, a digital credentials platform that lets eight universities issue cryptographically signed academic certificates stored in mobile wallets. Integrated with LearnTT and EmployTT, the system aims to streamline job applications and is the latest step in Trinidad...
Why Project Chaos Is a People Problem - And How Better Systems Improve Team Performance
The article argues that what many firms label as a “people problem” is often a project‑management failure. Disorganized project structures create cognitive overload, loss of agency, and inter‑team mistrust, driving burnout and turnover despite comparable pay. By instituting clear ownership,...
Sage Expands AI Agents Across Finance, HR and Operations to Automate Workflows and Help Teams Act Faster with Control
Sage announced a broad rollout of AI agents across its finance, HR and operations suites, embedding intelligent automation into Sage Intacct, Sage X3 and its HCM platform. The new Finance Intelligence Agent lets users issue natural‑language commands to trigger tasks...