OPM Deploys AI Chatbots and USA Class Tool to Streamline Federal Retirement and Hiring
U.S. Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor announced the rollout of AI chatbots for retirement inquiries and the USA Class tool that auto‑generates job descriptions. The initiative aims to shift staff from routine paperwork to higher‑value tasks without cutting headcount.
ServiceNow Launches Agentic AI Suite, Exposing HR‑IT Priority Clash
ServiceNow introduced its latest agentic AI tools, including Otto and EmployeeWorks, at the Knowledge 2026 conference, revealing a split between IT’s drive for efficiency and HR’s focus on compliance. Executives from CVS Health and analysts warned that misaligned expectations could...
Omada Health Posts 42% Revenue Jump as GLP‑1 Care Track Fuels Employer Wellness Growth
Omada Health announced Q1 2026 revenue of $78 million, a 42% rise year‑over‑year, as its GLP‑1 Care Track and expanded pharmacy‑benefit‑manager partnerships boost member enrollment. The company lifted full‑year revenue guidance to $322‑$330 million and reported its first positive adjusted EBITDA.
How L&D and Training Teams Localize Video at Scale in 2026: A Practical Playbook for Multilingual Internal Content
Learning and Development teams can now localize internal training videos at scale using AI dubbing, slashing costs from roughly $163,000 and 14 weeks to about $5,500 and a few days. European firms such as Liebscher & Bracht and New Com Academy reported up to...
Paylocity Q3 2026 Earnings Beat, AI Push Drives 11% Revenue Growth
Paylocity reported Q3 2026 results that topped guidance, with total revenue up 10.5% and adjusted EBITDA reaching $220.2 million at a 43.8% margin. Growth was powered by an 11.6% rise in recurring and other revenue and the rollout of AI‑infused products...
LinkedIn Announces New Model Enhancements for Hiring Assistant
LinkedIn unveiled a series of upgrades to its Hiring Assistant, the AI‑driven recruiting tool launched last September. The enhancements focus on smarter matching algorithms, greater transparency, and higher accuracy, building on early success. Since its debut, recruiters using the assistant...
Cloudflare Cuts 1,100 Jobs, Shifts to Agentic AI Era
Cloudflare announced it will eliminate 1,100 positions – roughly 20% of its global workforce – to reorganize around what executives call the “agentic AI” era. The move follows a 600% surge in internal AI usage and triggered a 23.4% plunge...
Walmart Wants to Train 2.1 Million Employees on AI | Fast Five Shorts
Walmart announced a plan to train its entire 2.1 million‑strong workforce—including store greeters and tech staff—on AI tools, using internal platform Squiggly and partnering with OpenAI and Google Gemini. The initiative, presented by EVP Donna Morris at the MIT Technology Review...
Info-Tech Research Warns Insurers' Talent Gaps Threaten Core System Modernization
Info-Tech Research Group released a new blueprint highlighting that insurers are falling behind in attracting and retaining critical IT talent, jeopardizing large‑scale core system upgrades and slowing adoption of HR technology solutions.
Ashby Acquires Talent Llama to Add AI Interviewing to Its Platform
Ashby announced it has acquired Talent Llama, a startup that provides AI‑powered interview software, to embed automated interview capabilities into its talent acquisition platform. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the move signals Ashby’s push to broaden...
Payscale Launches AI‑first Smart Reporting to Turn Pay Data Into Strategic Insight
Payscale introduced Smart Reporting, an AI‑driven reporting suite that creates custom compensation analyses in seconds. The tool aims to shift pay teams from manual data work to strategic advisory roles, responding to a 68% demand for compensation as a business...
The Corporate Benefits Rollback Is Spreading
TTEC, a customer‑experience technology firm, announced it will pause its 401(k) matching contributions for U.S. employees through the end of 2026. The company says the decision is driven by a strategic shift toward heavier investment in artificial‑intelligence tools, automation, and...
Intuit Adds AI‑Powered Workforce and 401(k) Tools to QuickBooks
Intuit announced that its flagship QuickBooks platform will now include AI‑driven workforce management and a built‑in 401(k) retirement solution. The move broadens QuickBooks from pure accounting software into a more complete HRTech suite for small and midsize businesses, though pricing...
Gusto Tops $1 B Revenue, Signals IPO Readiness Amid HR Tech Boom
Payroll SaaS Gusto announced it generated $1 billion in actual revenue over the past 12 months, a milestone that brings the 14‑year‑old company closer to a public market debut. The growth comes as the firm remains cash‑flow positive, leverages AI for...
Introducing the State of Hiring Automation 2026: The Gap Is Larger than You Think
Aptitude Research and Phenom unveiled the State of Hiring Automation 2026, a study that blends an audit of more than 200 enterprise hiring experiences with survey responses from over 300 organizations. The report finds that while interest in AI‑driven recruitment...
Introducing the State of Hiring Automation 2026: The Gap Is Larger than You Think
Aptitude Research and Phenom released the State of Hiring Automation 2026, analyzing over 200 enterprise hiring experiences and survey data from more than 300 organizations. The report finds that while attraction and engagement tools have lifted firms to about 62 %...
OPM Sees 12,000 New Retirement Claims in April
The Office of Personnel Management recorded nearly 12,000 new retirement claims in April and cut its backlog to under 50,000 for the first time in five months, with digital filings processed in about two‑thirds the time of paper applications. The...
How to Rebuild Your Career Framework as a CHRO with Claude
Vidyard CHRO Sarika Lamont demonstrated how Claude, an Anthropic generative‑AI model, can rebuild an entire career framework in real time. She shared her custom instructions, prompt library, and a side‑by‑side skill comparison that shows the AI’s output versus a manual approach....
The Hidden Challenge of Seasonal Hiring — and How Smart Businesses Solve It
Seasonal demand creates staffing volatility that traditional hiring processes can’t keep pace with. Companies are turning to high‑volume hiring platforms, AI‑driven screening, and real‑time workforce management tools to accelerate recruitment and dynamically align labor with fluctuating workloads. Mobile communication solutions...
Building a Unified HR Function Through HCM Transformation
The article outlines how organizations can achieve a unified HR function by undertaking a comprehensive HCM transformation. It emphasizes consolidating disparate payroll, talent, and workforce analytics into a single cloud‑based platform. The piece highlights the need for robust change‑management, data...
Greenhouse Rolls Out Managed Connection Platform to Govern AI Tool Integration
Greenhouse announced the Managed Connection Platform (MCP), a permission‑aware layer that lets recruiters attach external AI applications to its hiring system. Developed with design partners StubHub and Komodo Health, the MCP will be available to customers beginning in June, aiming...
ShiftMed Teams with Skilltrade to Launch AI‑Powered Allied Health Training Platform
ShiftMed announced a strategic partnership with Skilltrade to integrate AI‑driven allied‑health training into its workforce optimization platform, aiming to close credential gaps and reduce reliance on costly contract labor. The collaboration leverages ShiftMed’s 2025 record of 631,000 supported shifts and...
Mercer, Syndio Team Up on AI‑Driven Pay Equity Platform
Mercer has formed a strategic alliance with Syndio to roll out an AI‑powered pay equity and compensation platform. The partnership blends Mercer's advisory depth with Syndio's decision‑intelligence technology, promising enterprises a faster, more transparent way to govern pay.
Multi-Tenant ATS Architecture for White Label Partners
White‑label SaaS providers are turning to multi‑tenant architectures to deliver applicant tracking systems (ATS) that can scale across numerous partner brands. By isolating each partner’s data while sharing core services, the design promises lower costs, faster onboarding, and consistent performance....
How AI Can Enhance Benefit Leader, Broker Relationships
Gyde, a brokerage‑focused AI firm, launched its GydeOS platform and Gia assistant to shift benefit brokers from pure administrative tasks to proactive healthcare navigation. The tools automate calendar management, product recommendations, outreach, and renewal handling, freeing brokers to engage in...
GM Lawsuit Claims Forced Ranking System Targets Older Workers for Termination
General Motors introduced a forced‑ranking performance system in 2024, aiming to cut its white‑collar workforce by about 10% annually to create space for younger hires. A veteran engineer, Shujat Khan, alleges the system was used to target him for termination...
Teknismart Solutions Launches iParley Trust Platform for IT Hiring and Procurement
Teknismart Solutions unveiled iParley, a trust‑infrastructure platform aimed at streamlining IT hiring and vendor procurement. The service lets professionals and agencies validate credentials through a self‑permissioned framework, moving verification earlier in the workflow. By sharing consent‑driven proof of claims, organizations...
Meta’s Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable
Meta announced it will begin tracking U.S. employees' keystrokes, mouse movements, clicks and screen content to feed its artificial‑intelligence models. The policy, rolled out to tens of thousands of staff, sparked immediate backlash, with workers posting angry emojis and demanding...
Abu Dhabi Enacts Merit‑Based HR Law to Build AI‑Ready Public Workforce
Abu Dhabi’s government rolled out a modernised HR law on Jan 1 2026, mandating merit‑based recruitment, performance‑linked promotions and AI‑aligned learning for every public‑sector employee. The legislation also introduces flexible work options and enhanced leave, aiming to create a high‑performance workforce for...
First Half 2026 Release: What’s New in SAP SuccessFactors HCM?
SAP SuccessFactors announced its First Half 2026 HCM release, delivering more than 400 new features across the suite. The update emphasizes agility, tighter integration of people, data, and processes, and introduces AI‑driven agents to streamline core HR and payroll tasks. Among...
2026 Social Media Job Ads: New Strategies Unveiled
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Flex Partners with JOON to Bring HSA/FSA Shopping to Employer Benefits Platforms
Flex announced a partnership with employee‑benefits platform JOON, embedding its HSA/FSA marketplace directly into JOON’s system. The integration lets employees browse and purchase eligible health‑and‑wellness products using pre‑tax dollars without leaving the JOON interface. Flex will manage eligibility, compliance and...
Eightfold AI Announces Integration of Agentic Interviewing with Oracle Fusion Cloud Recruiting
Eightfold AI announced that its autonomous AI Interviewer is now integrated with Oracle Fusion Cloud Recruiting, part of Oracle’s HCM suite. The integration embeds Eightfold’s skills‑based interview engine—covering screening, functional, and coding interviews—directly into Oracle’s recruiting workflows. It enables enterprise...
Using AI as a Teammate Can Create Space for Skills Development
ADP Research’s Today at Work 2026 survey of 39,000 workers shows only 26% feel equipped with skills for career advancement and fewer than one‑in‑five believe their employer invests in development. The report also finds AI adoption is low, with just...
As Companies Use AI to Justify Layoffs, Josh Bersin Says HR Is Solving the Wrong Problem
At a senior HR summit in Amsterdam, analyst Josh Bersin warned that many firms are using AI as a pretext for workforce reductions, treating headcount cuts as digital transformation. He argued that this logic is strategically flawed and unlikely to...
Phenom Buys Plum, Greenhouse Buys Ezra AI
This episode of This Week in RegTech covers a flurry of HR tech acquisitions, including Deal’s purchase of SaaS procurement platform Sastrify, Greenhouse’s acquisition of voice‑AI interview tool Ezra AI, iSIMS appointing Mark Thompson as its new CEO, and Phenom’s...
NextLadder Ventures Unveils $1 B NavTech AI Fund to Power Economic‑Mobility Tools
NextLadder Ventures announced a $1 billion NavTech AI fund aimed at building AI‑driven tools that guide Americans through financial, career and benefits decisions. The fund, backed by former Google and Collaborative Fund executives, named Anthropic as its first frontier AI lab...
How SAP Signavio, LeanIX, CALM & SuccessFactors Form a Unified HR IT Architecture
Most HR IT departments keep process documentation, architecture repositories, system landscapes, and HR applications in separate silos. SAP proposes connecting Signavio, LeanIX, CALM, and SuccessFactors to form a unified Process‑to‑People architecture. The integration aligns business processes with technology assets, providing...
EVP Isn’t Failing. Execution Is (A 25 Year+ Perspective)
The article argues that employer value propositions (EVPs) are not failing; rather, companies stumble in executing them. While many organizations craft insightful, differentiated EVP statements, they often treat them as static launch documents instead of lived experiences. Execution gaps appear...
HR Rebooted Launches MyCareer Navigator, an AI Platform Helping Organizations Guide People Through Career Disruption
HR Rebooted has launched MyCareer Navigator, an AI‑driven platform that assesses how artificial intelligence may disrupt individual jobs and offers personalized career guidance. The tool delivers risk scores, skill assessments, AI‑resilience ratings, transition plans, resume building and AI‑feedback interview practice....
7 Best Interview Scheduling Software On G2: My Go-To Picks
The article reviews seven interview‑scheduling platforms, ranking them by specific hiring needs. Calendly Sales excels at fast, self‑serve external scheduling, while ADP Workforce Now embeds scheduling within core HR and payroll. Grayscale leverages SMS for real‑time candidate outreach, Ashby offers...
Strategic Change and SAP SuccessFactors: Why Senior HR Leaders Choose Max Success Plans
Senior HR leaders are tasked with driving continuous organisational change while maintaining operational stability. They must modernise HR processes, harmonise data, and embed AI responsibly. SAP SuccessFactors’ Max Success Plans promise a unified, adaptable platform that supports these demands. The...
IHH Healthcare Migrating Finance, HR Systems to the Cloud and More Briefs
Private healthcare giant IHH Healthcare announced it will migrate its legacy finance, human resources and supply chain applications to Oracle Fusion Cloud, creating a unified, cloud‑based platform. The move follows earlier cloud migrations of on‑premise databases in its Singapore and...
The Best Payroll Software for Nonprofits in 2026
The article reviews top nanny payroll services for household employers, highlighting five providers—Poppins Payroll, SurePayroll by Paychex, HomePay by Care.com, GTM Payroll Services, and HomeWork Solutions. It compares starter pricing, tax‑account setup, year‑end form preparation, and support options, recommending Poppins...
If You Have the Will, You’ll Have the Skill
The author describes a shift from simple ChatGPT prompting to autonomous AI agents that run daily operations for an AI‑driven recruiting platform. By using markdown‑based “skills,” non‑technical staff can instruct language models to screen candidates, catch errors, and ship updates...
Novaworks Launches AI‑Native HR Platform on ServiceNow to Govern Humans and AI Agents
Novaworks introduced an AI‑native HR platform built on ServiceNow’s enterprise AI stack, designed to manage humans, contractors and autonomous AI agents together. The move reflects a broader shift toward hybrid workforces, with Gartner projecting over 50% of large enterprises will...
Skill Passport and InCruiter Launch AI‑Based Interview Credentialing Platform for Indian Workforce
Skill Passport and InCruiter announced a strategic partnership to embed AI‑powered interview assessments into the Skill Passport ecosystem. The new service generates instant interview‑based credentials, aiming to streamline hiring for millions of Indian job seekers. The move signals a shift...
New Jersey Issues First State Guidance on Algorithmic Discrimination for Employers
The New Jersey Attorney General and the Division on Civil Rights have issued formal guidance that extends the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination to decisions made by artificial‑intelligence systems. The advisory warns both public and private employers that AI‑driven hiring,...
This Week in 5 Numbers: Only About 1 in 10 Job Seekers Say They Would Sit Through an AI Interview
Only about 12% of job seekers say they would sit through an AI‑driven interview, according to Greenhouse research. More than half of U.S. companies (54%) already use artificial intelligence for HR functions, a figure from a Littler Mendelson survey. The...
Xceed365HR Expands Across Africa to Fill HR Software Gap, CEO Says
Nigeria‑based Xceed365HR announced a continent‑wide expansion, targeting large enterprises that struggle with foreign‑built payroll systems. CEO Chuma Chukwujama says the move addresses a long‑standing HR software gap and will leverage AI to improve decision‑making.