Shifting AI From Fear to Optimism: U.S. Department of Labor’s Taylor Stockton
In this episode, Chief Innovation Officer Taylor Stockton of the U.S. Department of Labor explains how the agency is shifting the narrative around AI from fear to optimism by focusing on workforce agility, AI literacy, and supportive policy. He highlights the economy‑wide transformation of jobs, the need for both soft‑skill development and foundational AI competencies, and the upcoming AI Workforce Hub—a real‑time data and innovation lab to guide businesses, workers, and policymakers. Stockton stresses that AI will reshape tasks rather than eliminate entire occupations, creating opportunities for entrepreneurship and more meaningful human work.
SmartRecruiters Integrated Into SAP SuccessFactors, Unifying Talent Acquisition
SmartRecruiters announced today that its recruiting platform is fully integrated into SAP SuccessFactors, creating a single user experience and embedding the AI assistant Winston. The move follows SAP's 2025 acquisition of SmartRecruiters and aims to connect hiring, onboarding and workforce...
Novaworks.ai Raises $8M Seed Round to Deploy AI‑Native Total Workforce Management Platform
Novaworks.ai closed an $8 million seed round led by Stalwart Ventures, with participation from ServiceNow Ventures and Bell Ventures, and unveiled its AI‑native Total Workforce Management (TWM) operating system. The funding backs a platform built on ServiceNow that aims to replace...
AI Tops HR Exec Priorities in 2026 Survey, Uncertainty Fuels Shift
The CHRO Association and the University of South Carolina released a 2026 survey revealing that 91% of chief HR officers now list artificial intelligence as their primary focus. The finding comes as executives grapple with geopolitical instability, inflation and sweeping...
ADP Exec Says Data‑driven Payroll Is Reshaping Workforce Intelligence in Asia‑Pacific
Jessica Zhang, senior vice‑president for Asia‑Pacific at ADP, told HRM Asia that payroll is moving beyond compliance to become a core source of workforce intelligence. She highlighted that just 30% of regional firms have integrated payroll with other enterprise systems,...
HRchitect Delivers Seamless Payroll Transition for General Hospital Client
HRchitect successfully completed a full payroll system migration for a major General Hospital, moving the client from a legacy platform to its cloud‑based solution. The transition was finished in eight weeks with zero downtime, ensuring continuous payroll processing for thousands...
HRchitect Streamlines Prevailing Wage Compliance for Rental Services Provider Client
HRchitect has implemented an automated prevailing‑wage compliance platform for a large rental‑services provider, replacing manual spreadsheets and reducing administrative overhead. The solution integrates directly with the client’s payroll and ERP systems, delivering real‑time wage calculations and compliance alerts across multiple...
UKG Named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for AI‑led Workforce Management and EMEA Compliance
UKG has been named a Leader in IDC’s 2025‑2026 EMEA AI‑Enabled Workforce Management and Compliance MarketScape, highlighting its AI‑driven platform used by over 80,000 organizations worldwide. The assessment praises UKG’s ability to simplify multi‑country scheduling, ensure GDPR‑aligned data sovereignty with...
Restaurant AI Must Deliver More than Fancy Dashboards
Restaurant operators are increasingly demanding AI that tackles scheduling and labor optimization, not just analytics dashboards. A Harri survey of 600 U.S. and U.K. hospitality professionals found 38% rank scheduling as the top AI use case, while dashboards lag at...
Personegy Earns 2026 Lighthouse Award for Talent Acquisition Solution
NXTThing RPO has been named a 2026 Lighthouse Tech Award winner for Talent Acquisition: Best Frontline‑Focused Solution, recognizing its Personegy platform. Personegy combines AI‑driven screening, mobile‑first applications, and automated scheduling to move candidates from application to interview in under 60...
The Big Biscuit Partners with TipHaus to Deliver Same-Day Tip Payouts and Modernize Team Member Pay Across 30 Locations
The Big Biscuit, a fast‑growing breakfast and lunch chain with 30 locations in the Midwest, has teamed up with TipHaus to offer same‑day digital tip payouts. The partnership leverages TipHaus’s Earned Tip Access® platform, allowing managers to verify shift data...
Covenant HR Announces Inclusion in Lockton & ASHHRA AP3 Partner Program
Covenant HR has been accepted into the ASHHRA Preferred Partner Program (AP3), a collaboration with Lockton that curates vetted HR technology providers for the healthcare sector. The inclusion follows a rigorous vetting process that highlighted Covenant HR’s operational maturity and...
Why Strong Hiring Controls Matter in the World of Remote Work
Remote hiring has become commonplace, allowing firms to tap talent in Poland, Brazil and Kenya without a shared office. However, cross‑border recruitment introduces complex compliance obligations, especially under South Africa's Financial Intelligence Centre Act (FICA) and broader AML rules. Companies...
AI in HR Frees Teams From Paperwork, Boosts Focus
AI in HR isn't about replacing people; it's about freeing them from the 'paperwork pit.' Factorial helps SMBs focus on what matters most: their team. 🤝 Interested? Let's chat. Connect and let's talk how I can help solve your problems. https://t.co/tnv3SW1Vzm
Insurance Sector Needs Hybrid Talent Amid Rapid Automation: Aon’s Blain
Aon’s Louisa Blain reports that 97% of insurers are accelerating automation, with 43% of tasks expected to be automated by 2030. The industry faces a widening capability gap that recruitment alone cannot close, prompting a shift toward hybrid talent that...
From Phoenix to Dayforce: Auditor General Warns of Risks
The Canadian federal government is replacing the troubled Phoenix payroll system with the Dayforce platform, a project now projected to cost more than $3 billion USD. An Auditor General report warns that slow simplification of pay rules has led to costly...
Traliant Transforms Harassment Training with TV-Style Learning
Traliant unveiled a fully redesigned Preventing Workplace Harassment course that uses a cinematic, TV‑style narrative to teach anti‑harassment laws. The platform offers industry‑specific and international editions, automatically tailoring content to a learner’s role and location, and meets mandates across U.S....
Breeze Wellbeing Launches “Insights” Feature to Address Workplace Loneliness
In February 2026 Breeze Wellbeing introduced “Insights,” a curated knowledge‑base of specialist articles and peer stories aimed at reducing workplace loneliness. The feature links directly to self‑discovery assessments, delivering personalized content on topics such as relationships, ADHD and emotional awareness....
Confirm Launches AI Agents Platform for Performance Management at Transform 2026
Confirm announced the full launch of its Unified AI Agents HR Platform at Transform 2026, offering a single system that handles onboarding, performance management, manager coaching, and employee service desk functions. The solution replaces a patchwork of single‑purpose HR AI...
Accurate’s Identity Verification Helps Employers Combat Rising Candidate Fraud
Accurate has launched an enhanced Identity Verification service that matches a government‑issued ID with a real‑time selfie in seconds, eliminating the need for a download‑required app. The solution covers more than 200 countries and is built for remote‑first, global employers....
Future-Proof HR: Skills Needed for Next Five Years
#TimTalk – What new skills do HR and Payroll professionals need to develop today to be relevant in 5 years? with Simon Noble https://t.co/VaBE1Zp55e via @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Payroll #HR #HumanResources #Leadership #Strategy #HRTech #FutureofWork #WorkPlace #Culture
Automate HR Paperwork, Focus on Your People
Stop digging through the paperwork pit. HR is about people, not forms. Factorial automates the boring stuff so you can focus on your team. 👥 #HRTech #Factorial #PeopleOps #HRAutomation https://t.co/vMM8SckLCh
Why some Decisions Need a Human in the Room—Even when AI Gets It Right
In August 2025 ANZ Bank informed staff of layoffs via an automated email, prompting public outrage and an apology that framed the incident as a scheduling error. The episode illustrates a broader shift as companies embed AI into decisions traditionally...
Big Deel? EOR Platform Adds ATS
Deel unveiled its biggest platform upgrade at Big Deel 2026, adding a fully integrated applicant tracking system (ATS) that connects hiring, compensation, and workforce planning to its global payroll engine. The company, serving over 40,000 firms, highlighted AI‑driven sourcing, real‑time budget...
Four Decision Gates for Renewing Your LMS
Do you use an #LMS for #training? Eventually, you'll face contract renewal. But what should you do before that? Take a beat. Check my advice as a longtime consultant: "Should You Renew Your LMS? Navigating 4 Decision Gates" ➡️https://t.co/DQ4MXQo5oG #B2B #hrtech #onlinelearning https://t.co/TZZA7y1O34
Healthcare Recruiting Platform Lands $14.5M
Carefam, a conversational AI platform for healthcare staffing, emerged from stealth with a $14.5 million Series A led by Pitango HealthTech and backed by Emerge. The solution automates candidate outreach, interview scheduling, and credential verification, escalating only complex decisions to human HR...
AI Candidates Are Already Here. Your Interviewers Aren’t Ready.
Enterprise talent leaders are confronting a surge of AI‑assisted candidates who can produce flawless résumés, cover letters and interview answers. Fabric’s analysis shows AI‑driven cheating jumped from 15% to 35% of candidates between June and December 2025, and Gartner forecasts...
Tracker Expands Recruitment Platform with Payroll Integrations and Additional Back-Office Capability
Tracker, an AI‑native recruitment platform used by over 1,000 staffing agencies, has broadened its offering to include back‑office operations and payroll integrations. The new suite links candidate sourcing, placement, timesheets, billing, expense management, compliance, onboarding and payroll into a single...
Artificial Intelligence | Can AI Really Coach Like a Human? This Live Experiment Put It to the Test
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman predicts most white‑collar tasks will be automated within 12‑18 months, sparking debate over AI’s ability to replace human coaches. HR Grapevine witnessed a live experiment where myAgentsAI’s AI avatar "Maya" coached an actor‑played manager alongside...
The Curious Case of Professional Employer Organizations | Out-Of-Pocket
Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs) act as co‑employers, taking over payroll, HR, and benefits for small businesses. By aggregating thousands of workers, they secure large‑group health‑insurance rates that would be unavailable to individual firms. Clients pay a flat fee of roughly...
Inside WONE’s AI Performance Coach: Optimising for Human Potential, Not Efficiency
AI is accelerating workplace speed while inflating cognitive load, prompting a hidden resilience gap. WONE introduced Ori, an AI performance coach that uses its proprietary Index to detect stress signals before burnout emerges. By embedding real‑time interventions into daily workflows,...
Act Now to Prepare for BiK Changes, Urge Experts
Employers must register with HMRC by 5 April 2026 to test voluntary payrolling of benefits in kind (BiK) ahead of a mandatory rollout in April 2027. The new regime will require real‑time payroll processing of most non‑cash perks, replacing the annual P11D filing...
Outcome Over Interface: Escaping the Over-Complication Trap
The article warns that B2B work‑tech is moving from UI‑heavy SaaS to outcome‑centric AI agents that execute tasks autonomously. Companies that replace dashboards with “Zero‑UI” agents are scaling three times faster, while legacy products suffer higher customer acquisition costs and...
HR Recognition Platform: Accolad Modernizes Employee Years of Service Programs Across Canada
Accolad, a Canadian HR‑tech firm, launched a modernized recognition platform that automates employee years‑of‑service programs across Canada. The solution delivers a fully personalized digital storefront, scheduled gift delivery, and real‑time analytics, while integrating natively with major HRIS, Microsoft Teams and...
Accounting Prose Unveils Free Mini HR Assessment to Shield Startups From Legal Penalties
Accounting Prose, a Colorado‑based FinOps‑as‑a‑Service firm, has released a free Mini HR Assessment that lets early‑stage founders diagnose people‑operations risks in five minutes. The tool promises a personalized risk snapshot that could save startups tens of thousands of dollars in...
Sprinto Unveils Autonomous Trust Platform to Automate HR Compliance
Sprinto introduced its Autonomous Trust Platform, an AI‑driven system that replaces manual compliance workflows with governed agents. The platform, now live, already supports more than 3,000 companies across 75 countries and covers 200+ standards, including SOC 2, GDPR and HIPAA. By...
Heading up HR at One of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Cities
Gregory Juliano, CHRO of Calgary, says the city is Canada’s fastest‑growing municipality, adding more than 100,000 residents and now employing over 20,000 staff. To manage this growth while keeping taxes low, HR and IT are embedding technology, including an enterprise...
IRS Deploys AI to Accelerate Wage Garnishments and Tax Levies, Raising Payroll Compliance Stakes
The Internal Revenue Service announced a nationwide rollout of artificial‑intelligence systems that will automate audit selection, case scoring and early‑stage enforcement for wage garnishments and tax levies. Fully operational by 2025‑2026, the program, funded under the Inflation Reduction Act, compresses...
HR Must Shape AI Strategy for Future Success
Why HR Professionals Should Be Involved In AI Strategy Development @Forbes https://t.co/FEfG6KkIMv #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
Mexico Pushes Through Sweeping Labor Reforms on Pay Transparency, Digital Rights and 40‑Hour Week
Mexico's Congress is poised to approve four amendments to the Federal Labor Law that will require salary transparency in job ads, extend digital disconnection rights to all workers, ban employer blacklists, and launch gender‑pay gap inspections. The changes coincide with...
JPMorgan Deploys AI‑Driven Time‑Tracking Tool for Junior Bankers
JPMorgan Chase has begun rolling out an AI‑based time‑tracking platform that automatically logs junior bankers' work hours from video calls, keystrokes and calendar data. The bank says the tool is meant to raise awareness of long hours, not to police...
Rivermate Expands EOR Services to Cover UK, Germany, Canada and Spain
Rivermate announced an expansion of its Employer‑of‑Record (EOR) platform to include the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and Spain, boosting its country coverage and operational capacity. The move aims to meet rising demand from companies building distributed teams and entering new...
Three Ways HR and IT Can Partner in AI
3 Models for HR-IT Collaboration in an AI-Driven World @visier https://t.co/UPY6K2digs #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
Findem Acquires Glider AI to Build End-to-End AI Hiring Platform
Findem announced the acquisition of Glider AI, a skills‑validation platform, to fuse talent discovery with autonomous assessments and identity verification. The move creates a single AI‑powered hiring solution that promises faster, data‑driven hiring for enterprise customers.
CHROs Must Lead the AI Revolution
#VisionPaper The CHRO’s mandate has changed: Time to lead the AI revolution https://t.co/2cjuLraElJ #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
Discover RChilli Custom AI Agents for Oracle Recruiting Cloud
RChilli announced the rollout of custom AI agents tailored for Oracle Recruiting Cloud, showcased at the Oracle AI World Tour in London on March 24, 2026. The agents embed advanced parsing, matching and workflow automation directly into Oracle’s talent acquisition...
Human-in-the-Loop: Balancing AI and Workforce
The Human-in-the-Loop Experience: Navigating #AI at Work @ABPsychologists https://t.co/Q7rWBniM5Y #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
Workday Deploys Sana AI Assistant, Embedding Intelligence in Core HR Workflows
Workday introduced Sana, a super‑intelligent AI assistant for enterprise HR, just four months after acquiring the startup. The tool is built directly into Workday's deterministic HR suite, promising to move AI from isolated pilots to everyday payroll, compliance and talent...
BambooHR Rolls Out Services Suite to Scale Fast‑Growing Teams
BambooHR announced the launch of BambooHR Services, a three‑tier offering that adds managed payroll, compliance assistance, and people‑analytics support for rapidly scaling companies. The suite is delivered by veteran HR consultants and is positioned to complement the company’s AI‑driven HR...