Know What's Happening in HRTech
Know What's Happening in HRTech
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 handled by humans, from performance reviews to workforce planning. While AI excels at pure cognitive tasks, the ANZ case highlights the missing interpersonal element when sensitive news is delivered by a machine. Leaders must therefore distinguish between tasks that can be automated and those that require human empathy.
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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...
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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...
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, 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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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, 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 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...
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...
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...
Why HR Professionals Should Be Involved In AI Strategy Development @Forbes https://t.co/FEfG6KkIMv #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
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 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 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...
3 Models for HR-IT Collaboration in an AI-Driven World @visier https://t.co/UPY6K2digs #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
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.
#VisionPaper The CHRO’s mandate has changed: Time to lead the AI revolution https://t.co/2cjuLraElJ #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
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...
The Human-in-the-Loop Experience: Navigating #AI at Work @ABPsychologists https://t.co/Q7rWBniM5Y #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
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 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...
HiBob’s Bob platform was crowned the best HR software in Australia by TechGuide’s 2026 review. The award highlights its people‑first design, AI‑driven analytics, and out‑of‑the‑box compliance tools for Fair Work awards and enterprise agreements. HiBob’s integration network spans more than...
LiquidLabor unveiled its full suite of AI‑powered staffing tools, targeting healthcare staffing agencies plagued by inaccurate job data and compliance delays. The platform automates and standardizes job information across travel, contract, staff and per‑diem roles, integrating seamlessly with VMS and...
Socure’s head of product Deepanker Saxena warns that AI‑driven fake job applicants are infiltrating hiring pipelines, giving fraudsters rapid access to corporate systems. He explains that a compromised employee can cause ransomware, data theft, or IP loss within minutes of...
Rivermate announced an expansion of its Employer of Record (EOR) services, adding new country coverage and boosting operational capacity. The move targets firms building distributed teams and entering markets such as the UK, Germany, Canada, and Spain. By acting as...
BambooHR unveiled BambooHR Services, a new portfolio that adds HR consulting, technical services, and managed payroll to its existing people‑intelligence platform. The offerings are designed to help fast‑growing companies tackle increasing payroll, compliance and operational complexity. Dedicated consultants will provide...
Ontop, a Colombian payroll platform, has teamed up with stablecoin infrastructure provider BVNK to introduce USD‑denominated stablecoin accounts for contractors and remote workers globally. The embedded accounts let users hold, receive, and transfer digital dollars with near‑instant settlement while shielding...
Dayforce announced expanded partnerships with Emburse and DocuSign, embedding expense‑management and digital‑agreement capabilities directly into its HCM platform. The certified integrations promise secure data exchange, a unified buying experience, and reduced implementation risk for HR, finance and operations leaders. By...
The article outlines five ways payroll teams can deliver value amid the cost‑of‑living crisis, emphasizing accuracy, real‑time integration, and flexibility. It argues that managed payroll services integrated with modern HRIS eliminate manual errors and provide instant data visibility. By outsourcing...
MetLife’s 2026 Employee Benefit Trends Study reports that 61% of employees are concerned about AI‑related risks, while 80% of employers say AI tools are now routine. The gap between employee anxiety and employer optimism is driving a push for clearer...
Avature Upfront APAC 2026 convened talent leaders in Sydney to examine the widening gap between AI investment and enterprise transformation. The event highlighted AI’s dominance in talent discussions, while also surfacing practical challenges such as ROI measurement, data privacy, and...
Valence has launched Nadia, the first AI‑powered enterprise coach that embeds directly into collaboration tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams. The platform uses actionable AI to assess working styles and team dynamics, delivering personalized leadership guidance at scale. Fortune 500 customers...
Vahan.ai is an AI‑driven recruitment platform that automates high‑volume hiring for India’s blue‑collar and gig workforce through WhatsApp and voice interactions. The service powers hiring for giants such as Zomato, Swiggy, Uber and Amazon, handling millions of candidate matches. In...
ZipRecruiter announced a native ChatGPT app that lets job seekers search listings by typing “@ziprecruiter” with a title and location. The app returns results and routes users back to ZipRecruiter’s site, mirroring a similar launch by Indeed earlier this year....
Workday lost a pivotal lawsuit, Mobley v. Workday, after U.S. District Judge Rita Lin dismissed the company's Age Discrimination in Employment Act defense. The case centers on alleged bias embedded in Workday's AI‑driven hiring tools. Legal experts view the ruling...
isolved's chief product officer argues that HR should stop being judged solely on speed. A recent isolved report shows nearly 70% of HR teams use AI, primarily for payroll and recruitment, while two‑thirds cite a persistent talent crisis. The CPO...
Employees are increasingly using generative AI to draft internal workplace complaints that resemble formal legal filings. These AI‑assisted grievances cite statutes, include detailed timelines, and sometimes contain fabricated case citations, making them harder for HR to assess and increasing verification...
Indeed’s latest analysis of CV data from 2022‑mid‑2025 shows that about 2.4 % of UK workers change jobs each month, and roughly two‑thirds of those movers switch to a completely different occupation. Turnover is concentrated in entry‑level sectors such as loading,...
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Automatic Data Processing (ADP) released a strategic briefing that details a multi‑billion‑dollar AI roadmap, emphasizing Agentic AI and next‑gen cloud architecture to help clients navigate a cooling global labor market. The plan builds on ADP’s existing base of over 40 million...
JazzHR’s platform now emphasizes customizable data fields, allowing recruiters to capture the specific metrics that matter to their organization. By enabling custom fields for items such as business unit, work‑authorization status, or internal project codes, the system adapts to varied...
Recruitment firms are increasingly turning to freelance developers to build, maintain, and upgrade their digital hiring platforms. Traditional full‑time hiring or agency contracts are seen as slow and expensive, prompting HR teams to seek flexible, project‑based talent. Freelancers bring specialized...
