Danielle DeBoer Named SVP of Human Resources at Cosette Pharmaceuticals
Cosette Pharmaceuticals has hired Danielle DeBoer as senior vice president of Human Resources. The veteran HR leader brings experience from private‑equity‑backed firms and global pharma, positioning Cosette to accelerate team growth, M&A integration and DEI initiatives as it expands its women’s health and dermatology portfolio.
Alight Named a Leader Across All Market Segments in the 2026 Nelsonhall Neat Assessment for Benefits Administration
Alight, a leading benefits‑administration provider, has been named a Leader in all six market segments of NelsonHall’s 2026 Benefits Administration NEAT assessment. The recognition follows a consecutive‑year ranking and highlights Alight’s digital platform, AI‑enabled health navigation, and extensive global capabilities....
Andon Labs Opens AI‑Run Retail Store in San Francisco, Giving Bot Luna $100K Autonomy
Andon Labs launched Andon Market, a boutique store in San Francisco’s Cow Hollow, handing AI bot Luna $100,000, a credit card and a three‑year lease to run daily operations. The experiment puts an autonomous AI in charge of hiring, inventory and...
Paylocity Launches Elevate Solutions to Help HR and Payroll Teams Scale More Efficiently
Paylocity, a leading HCM, finance, and IT solutions provider, announced the launch of Elevate Solutions, a new service that blends its unified cloud platform with dedicated operational support. The offering is designed to offload routine administrative tasks for HR and...
Where You Work Matters
Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s latest analysis challenges traditional employer rating systems by basing scores on real workforce outcomes rather than opinion surveys. The study draws on data from 12 million employees spanning 1,750 companies, revealing measurable performance gaps and turnover differentials. Outcome‑driven metrics...
Why AI Improves Employee Engagement for some Organizations and How to Make It Work for Yours
Organizations are pouring capital into AI with the promise of higher performance and a better employee experience. Early pilots show that AI can lift engagement by delivering personalized learning, real‑time feedback, and smarter workload distribution. Success, however, hinges on transparent...
Why AI Improves Employee Engagement for some Organizations and How to Make It Work for Yours
Organizations are pouring money into AI with the promise of higher performance and a better employee experience. APQC’s latest survey shows that roughly half of senior leaders say AI has lifted employee engagement, while fewer than one‑in‑ten report a decline....
AI Recruiting Software Improves Candidate Quality for 95% of Pin Users, 2026 Survey Finds
Pin, an AI‑powered recruiting assistant, released results from its 2026 user survey showing that 95% of recruiters experienced better candidate quality after adopting the platform. The software achieved an 83% candidate acceptance rate, the highest reported among AI recruiting tools,...
CAB Conversations: What TA Pros Told Us (And What We’re Doing Next)
Employ held its latest Customer Advisory Board meeting, gathering talent acquisition leaders to discuss pressing challenges. Participants highlighted tool fatigue, the fleeting nature of AI fluency, the need for industry‑tailored hiring solutions, and rising concerns over candidate fraud. The discussion...
Booth Unveils BoothOS: The First Platform to Source, Hire, Pay, and Manage Global Teams in 120+ Countries
Booth, a certified B‑Corporation, launched BoothOS, a unified platform that lets companies source, hire, onboard, pay and manage employees in more than 120 countries. The service combines Booth’s global recruiting expertise with Deel’s payroll and compliance infrastructure, delivering a single...
HRO Today Unveils CHRO of the Year Finalists Showcasing Retention, Diversity and AI Initiatives
HRO Today announced the slate of CHRO of the Year finalists, naming seven senior HR leaders whose programs delivered dramatic turnover reductions, record‑high diversity applicant pools and AI‑driven talent analytics. Their achievements illustrate how strategic HR is reshaping workforce stability...
Cognizant Unveils Skillspring AI Platform to Upskill Enterprise Workforce
Cognizant announced the launch of Skillspring™, an AI‑native, multimodal learning platform that maps skills to roles and projects. The service targets the $4.5 trillion of U.S. work tasks now handled by AI and the 93% of jobs already affected, promising faster...
AI Hiring Boom: How Cognitive Technologies Are Redefining E-Commerce Recruitment
E‑commerce retailers are moving from isolated AI tools to unified cognitive AI platforms that combine natural language understanding, vision, knowledge graphs, and real‑time inference. These platforms power conversational interfaces that can remember context, ask clarifying questions, and execute actions such...
American Airlines Will Start Scoring Flight Attendants, And It Won’t End Well
American Airlines is rolling out a new Me@Work program that will assign performance scores to flight attendants based on data from the past year. The metrics include passenger net promoter scores, operational contributions, and delays attributed to flight attendants. While...
Payscale Intelligence Cloud Sets New Standard in Compensation Intelligence
Payscale unveiled the Intelligence Cloud, a unified suite that merges compensation, talent acquisition, and finance data into a single platform. The solution delivers real‑time pay insights to managers, HR business partners, and executives, shifting compensation from a periodic, siloed task...
Cognizant Propels AI Workforce Training with Cognizant Skillspring™: New Talent Transformation Platform Designed to Accelerate Clients’ Workforce AI Readiness
Cognizant unveiled Skillspring™, an AI‑native, multimodal learning platform that embeds conversational tutoring directly into daily workflows. The solution links skill development to specific roles, projects and performance outcomes, and includes an AI Fluency Dashboard that tracks individual readiness in real...
The AI “Sandwich”: Why HR Teams Are Caught in the Middle
In this episode Tim Fisher talks with Josh Rod of HiBob about how AI is reshaping HR. They explain HiBob’s all‑in‑one HCM platform and why AI is a strategic priority for delivering real value rather than hype. The conversation highlights...
Introducing AI Fraud Detection Agent
Gem launched its AI Fraud Detection Agent, the third AI tool in its recruiting suite, to automatically assess inbound applications for fraud risk. The agent evaluates six data signals—resume metadata, email, phone, LinkedIn, person verification, and IP/device—and assigns a high,...
How to Detect AI-Generated Resumes
AI‑generated resumes have surged, with iHire reporting 29.3% of job seekers using AI tools in 2024. While 80% of hiring managers say they would reject such resumes outright, 83% of firms plan to rely on AI for screening, creating an...
AI Automates Job Applications, Turning Effort Into Strategy
Stop sending 200 identical CVs. This might be the turning point in how people apply for jobs. A new open-source tool powered by Claude Opus 4.7 can now handle your entire job search workflow: • Finds relevant job openings automatically • Rewrites your CV...
Building a Workforce without Walls at HR Tech Asia 2026
HR Tech Asia 2026 will convene at Singapore's Suntec Convention Centre from May 4‑7, gathering C‑suite leaders, HR innovators and technology pioneers. The three‑track programme—C‑Suite Leadership, Workforce Transformation, and Worktech & AI—highlights a shift from viewing digital change as a...
IBM CHRO: Focus on AI Productivity at Your Own Risk
IBM’s chief human‑resources officer, Nickle LaMoreaux, warned that treating AI solely as a productivity tool misses larger growth opportunities. She urged HR leaders to embed AI across enterprise workflows—customer support, promotion processes, and HR‑BP interactions—to drive measurable business expansion. LaMoreaux...
Retirement‑Plan AI Adoption Triggers New Fiduciary Risks for Employers
Employers sponsoring retirement plans are confronting heightened fiduciary scrutiny after AI tools began handling record‑keeping, investment advice, and participant communications. Lawyers say the technology creates gray areas under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, raising the potential for lawsuits if...
AI Could Automate Team Journaling, Saving $14K Monthly
every sunday I journal through every person on my team. can this role be automated? can AI do 80% of it? last month i cut $14K/month in team costs doing this exercise.
Workday Positions AI Agents as ‘Human Talent’ in New HR Strategy
At a press briefing on April 14, 2026, Workday Japan’s executive Riki Furuchi announced a strategy that treats AI agents as “human talent.” The plan adds AI‑ready support, a new “Flex Credits” consumption model and tools like Agent Builder Pro,...
HR Leaders Warn AI Blame Shifts Undermine Workplace Accountability
Labor and employment partners Jason Stavely and Meghan O'Connor of Quarles & Brady warned that employees cannot escape responsibility by blaming AI tools. Their advisory stresses immediate governance, role‑based usage rules, and a clear human‑in‑the‑loop principle to protect firms from...
Top Jobs Often Bypass LinkedIn, Posted in ATS First
A lot of the best jobs never hit LinkedIn. Not because they’re secret because of how hiring actually works. When I was recruiting, we didn’t always have enough LinkedIn seats to post every role but we were still hiring across teams. So where...
Bolt Employees Lose Paychecks Amid Payroll Glitch Claims
Sources telling me @bolt employees have had their most recent paychecks clawed back from their bank accounts. Bolt is blaming 'tech glitch' at payroll processor, but speculation is Bolt can't even make payroll, per sources familiar w/situation.
AISO Tools' 2026 AI HR Roundup Highlights Tools Cutting Admin Time by 90% and Hiring Speed Up to 4x
AISO Tools released its 2026 roundup of AI tools for HR professionals, showcasing solutions that can reduce administrative workload by up to 90% and accelerate hiring by 2‑4 times. The list underscores a $1.4 trillion annual savings potential cited by McKinsey...
ProvenBase Actually Fills Even the Hardest Roles
It’s funny watching people react to @ProvenBase in action. Yes, we really can find talent for your hard to fill roles. #shrm talent 2026 https://t.co/JkUKQkeOXQ
Shaping HR's Future Together at HR Technologies UK 2026
#Event HR Technologies UK 2026: Exploring the future of HR, together @HRZone https://t.co/L05EaJPDRj #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
Dext Payments Expands with Payroll and New Features
Dext, the bookkeeping automation platform, has upgraded its Dext Payments suite by adding payroll processing and a set of new controls. Since its general‑availability launch, users have moved more than £2 million (about $2.5 million) through the system. The update adds 90‑day...
Top Six Online HR, Payroll, Scheduling Tools Updated
The Six Best Online HR, Payroll, and Employee Scheduling Tools [UPDATED] https://t.co/FjIH5BsqNp Adds @joinhomebase .
7 Best Payroll Software in 2026: My Honest Take
Shreya Mattoo’s 2026 roundup identifies seven payroll platforms—RUN (ADP), Gusto, Rippling, Deel, UKG Ready, Remote, and Paylocity—as the top performers based on G2 data, user reviews, and feature breadth. The analysis highlights that automated payroll can reduce processing errors by...
Microsoft and Australian Union Launch First Workers’ AI Summit in Sydney
Microsoft and the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) convened the first Workers’ Summit on AI adoption in Sydney, advancing a framework agreement signed earlier this year. The summit focused on practical, worker‑centred AI deployment and set a roadmap for...
Simpli5 Expands Platform to Turn Self‑awareness Into Daily Team Action
Simpli5 announced a platform expansion that embeds behavioral insights into everyday workflow, aiming to close the knowing‑doing gap that stalls most assessment investments. The move targets enterprise customers such as LinkedIn, Kaiser Permanente and Notion, and promises a compounding network...
SBI Remit Adds Tottori Bank, Reaches 26 Partners
BIG: 🇯🇵 Ripple-powered SBI Remit partners with Tottori Bank to expand remittance and payroll services for foreign workers in Japan, bringing total bank partnerships to 26 https://t.co/g3IvnOMAH9
‘The AI Did It’: Why Employers Cannot Accept AI as a Scapegoat
Generative AI is now embedded in daily work, prompting employees to blame the technology when outputs are flawed. HR leaders must reject the “AI did it” defense and establish robust AI governance that couples policies with oversight, clear tool approvals,...
Ready for Complex Open Enrollment Questions? AI Agents Can Help
AI agents are increasingly handling complex, personalized open‑enrollment questions, a shift highlighted by Cascade AI’s recent findings. The platform reports that open enrollment accounts for roughly 40% of labor costs, and one‑third of employee inquiries involve cost, coverage, or plan...
AI Is Scoring Your Job Candidates. Can You Explain How?
AI video‑interview scoring tools are increasingly used, yet most operate as opaque black boxes that assess tone, eye contact and facial cues rather than the substance of a candidate’s answers. Regulators in the U.S., New York, Illinois and the EU...
Coinbase Pilots AI Agents on Slack to Aid 4,000‑Plus Staff
Coinbase has started a pilot of two AI agents, Fred and Balaji, on Slack and email to help its more than 4,000 employees with strategic alignment and creative problem‑solving. CEO Brian Armstrong says the experiment could soon let any worker...
AI Shouldn’t Be Setting Prices or Wages. States Need to Push Back.
A wave of state legislation is targeting AI-driven price‑setting and wage‑determination systems that rely on intensive worker surveillance. Maryland, Colorado, Minnesota and New York are proposing bans that would classify such practices as unfair or deceptive under consumer‑protection and labor...
AI Has Changed Entry-Level Hiring. Most Interviews Haven’t.
AI tools have lifted the baseline of communication fluency among entry‑level candidates, making polished answers appear commonplace. However, this surface polish can conceal a lack of real judgment, which is critical when stakes rise. Hiring leaders are urged to redesign...
Chinese Tech Workers Are Starting to Train Their AI Doubles–And Pushing Back
Chinese tech firms are urging employees to train AI agents that can mimic their coworkers, spurring a viral reaction to the GitHub‑hosted Colleague Skill tool. The spoof project automatically harvests chat histories and files from Lark and DingTalk to generate...
Does Your Intranet Still Matter in an AI-First Workplace?
The article argues that intranets remain vital in an AI‑first workplace because they serve three distinct jobs—pull (answering employee queries), push (delivering proactive messages), and people (building culture). AI reshapes how each function operates but does not replace the intranet;...
Gallup’s 2026 Workplace Report: How Do We Fix the Manager Engagement Collapse?
Gallup’s 2026 State of the Global Workplace report shows employee engagement at a historic low of 20 percent and manager engagement falling nine points since 2022. The decline stems from a poorly designed manager role that has accumulated administrative, reporting, and...
PowerSchool ERP 22.4.26 Launches with Timecard Integration and Data‑Consistency Upgrades
PowerSchool released ERP version 22.4.26.0 on Oct. 27, 2023, introducing a TimeClockPlus time‑card integration that calculates pay based on hours and rate, bolstering expense and purchase‑order workflows, and rebranding its employee mobile app. The updates aim to tighten data consistency...
Agile PeopleOps Unveils HARI L 2.0, First AI Governance Score for Individual Leaders
Agile PeopleOps launched HARI L 2.0, the world’s first individual AI governance assessment that assigns leaders a 0‑100 score based on real‑time AI decision‑making. The tool delivers a board‑ready scorecard, gap register and a 90‑day coaching plan, filling a gap in...
Funko Elevates Mike Snider to Vice President of People & Culture
Funko announced the promotion of Mike Snider to Vice President of People & Culture, expanding his remit over talent strategy, organizational design and employee engagement. The move reflects the company’s intensified focus on building a high‑performing, people‑centric organization as it...
10 Best Employee Recognition Software I Recommend in 2026
The article outlines the criteria for selecting top employee recognition software in 2026, emphasizing flexibility, integration, analytics, customization, security, and social engagement features. It argues that platforms must support varied recognition styles, embed into tools like Slack and HRIS, and...