Know What's Happening in HRTech
Know What's Happening in HRTech
AI trainer positions exploded by 283% in 2025, making them the fastest‑growing cross‑border roles on Deel’s platform. At the same time, CHROs climbed to 55% of the top‑paid executives in Russell 3000 firms, while 44% of workers say AI does more harm than good. The hospitality sector still faces an $18,000 annual gender pay gap for bartenders and food‑service managers. Additionally, Challenger, Gray & Christmas estimates March Madness costs U.S. employers $12.1 billion in lost productivity.
SAP announced the upcoming Release Center, a centralized hub for deploying HR‑related software updates across its Human Capital Management suite. The platform will launch in the first half of 2026 and aims to streamline version control, reduce rollout time, and...
With nearly 25% of U.S. workers remote, first impressions now happen on screen, prompting HR teams to seek affordable, scalable headshot solutions. Onrec evaluated seven vendors using a weighted scorecard that emphasizes price, image quality, turnaround, and brand controls, highlighting...
AI-driven tools are reshaping Workday configuration by automatically spotting hidden anomalies, quantifying change risk, and streamlining audits. The technology delivers proactive insights that replace manual, intuition‑based processes, allowing enterprises to act before issues affect operations. Integrated recommendation engines now suggest...
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Healthcare hiring is accelerating, and medical assistants are among the fastest‑growing occupations. Traditional community‑college pathways cannot keep pace with the rising demand driven by an aging population, physician shortages, and cost pressures. Accredited online medical assistant programs now offer rigorous...
Sen. Marsha Blackburn unveiled a draft bill that obliges public companies and selected private firms to report AI‑related layoffs, role changes, and other workforce effects to the Labor Department each quarter. Non‑compliance could trigger civil penalties of up to $1 million...
The traditional corporate LMS is losing relevance as engagement plummets to single‑digit levels without compliance pressure. Paris‑based startup Blify announced a €1.8 million pre‑seed round to launch an AI‑powered learning operating system that embeds training directly into Slack, Microsoft Teams and...
The Office of Personnel Management is launching the first cohort of its Tech Force initiative, placing several hundred technologists into federal roles through a new shared‑certificate system. The program centralizes hiring, using a three‑phase, skills‑based assessment to create a cross‑agency...
We just wrapped The Big @deel 2026 - and this one felt different. 🚀 Today is also Deel's 7th birthday. 7 years, 40,000+ companies, $22B in payroll processed. This year we connected every stage of the worker lifecycle into one platform. Here's...
Viventium announced the acquisition of Perks4Care, a points‑based rewards platform designed for post‑acute care workers, to broaden its human‑capital management suite. The integration adds real‑time caregiver recognition and customizable incentive programs to Viventium’s existing payroll and workforce tools. The move...
SD Worx Ireland announced that its MegaPay payroll software now processes pay for 17% of the Irish workforce, roughly 400,000 employees. The company reported a 26% revenue increase in 2025, a 99% customer‑retention rate, and serves 450 businesses. It is...
ZipRecruiter has launched a dedicated app for ChatGPT, embedding its job‑search engine directly into the generative‑AI platform. Users can invoke the service with an @ziprecruiter command, specifying criteria such as salary, location, or remote flexibility, and receive real‑time listings from...
HR tech firms announced multiple strategic partnerships aimed at streamlining talent acquisition and workforce planning. Vidle.com integrated LaborEdge’s ATS, allowing staffing agencies to push job orders directly to its traveler platform. Workable earned LinkedIn and Indeed Platinum Partner status, reinforcing...
Utiva, an AI‑driven workforce platform, has been admitted to the Techstars accelerator, signaling its shift from pure talent training to providing end‑to‑end global hiring infrastructure. The company has already upskilled more than 200,000 professionals in 39 emerging‑market countries and partnered...
In this episode, David Kinlon, co‑founder and VP of Strategic Partnerships & Growth at Epion, explains how the company’s global, broker‑agnostic employee benefits platform consolidates data for employers, brokers, and carriers across multiple jurisdictions. He highlights the platform’s ability to...
Talent Connects, a recruiting platform serving over 300 businesses, announced a partnership with Fusemachines to embed its Interview Agent into the Talent Connects suite. The AI‑driven agent will sit alongside recruiters during interviews, offering real‑time question prompts, response scoring, and...
Hirezon unveiled its AI Suites, beginning with the AI Candidate Summary, to streamline faculty and staff hiring at colleges and universities. The tool automatically extracts job requirements, matches them against applicant materials, and produces side‑by‑side summaries that flag met and...
New research from the CHRO Association shows that leading chief human resources officers are converting AI ambition into tangible business outcomes by anchoring projects in specific HR challenges rather than technology hype. The study, based on cross‑industry case studies, highlights...
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Carroll University has gone live with Ellucian’s Student, Human Capital Management and Finance solutions, unifying its SIS and ERP on a SaaS‑native, AI‑powered platform. The deployment was completed in less than 12 months, replacing legacy systems and delivering role‑based self‑service...
Unily announced that its AI‑native conversational execution layer, Unily Glass, will be generally available on March 31, 2026, after early demos at UNLEASH America and Gartner Digital Workplace Summit. The new feature transforms the Unily employee experience platform from an...
Workday introduced Sana for Workday, a conversational AI agent that handles HR and finance tasks, while allocating $1.1 billion to accelerate its AI‑first roadmap. The launch promises faster service but also sparks debate over the future of low‑level HR roles.
Indeed’s UK Smarter Hiring report shows half of employers view AI and automation as the chief catalyst for skill changes over the next three to five years, yet one‑third of jobseekers and 40% of employers say they lack time for...
Your360 AI has launched a full‑scale group 360 offering that replaces costly interview‑based assessments with AI‑driven voice conversations. The service includes confidential AI interviews, synthesized coaching reports, and live debriefs led by PhD‑qualified people scientists, starting at $2,500 for up...
Companies are increasingly adopting end‑to‑end HR platforms that fuse talent acquisition with payroll, turning fragmented processes into a continuous employee journey. Integrated systems automatically transfer candidate data into employee records, cutting time‑to‑hire and reducing manual entry errors. Automation not only...
Lunagen Inc. launched Astra‑HR, an AI‑driven onboarding platform that automates twelve repetitive tasks such as Slack setup, background checks, and device provisioning. The solution claims to cut onboarding administrative effort by 40‑60 % while delivering a consistent, error‑free day‑one experience for...
Payroll management in education has progressed from handwritten ledgers to cloud‑based platforms. Early manual processes were error‑prone and time‑consuming, prompting a shift to spreadsheet calculations that reduced mistakes but still required heavy data entry. Dedicated payroll software automated tax rules...
Healthcare providers are increasingly turning to remote staffing firms to offload non‑clinical tasks such as scheduling, billing, and insurance verification. Companies like Remote Scouts, MedVA, and Scribe America supply pre‑trained, HIPAA‑compliant virtual assistants that can be onboarded within days, reducing...
Remote work has turned the first employee handshake into a virtual interaction, prompting companies to seek affordable, high‑quality headshots for branding and recruiting. The article evaluates seven remote‑team headshot services, scoring them on price, image quality, turnaround, ease of use,...
AI grading software is transforming recruitment assessments by automating the scoring of essays, coding tests, and situational judgments. Leveraging machine learning and natural language processing, the tools deliver consistent, bias‑reduced evaluations in minutes instead of days. The technology scales to...
The World Economic Forum’s 2026 Global Lighthouse Network report flags talent as a fourth pillar of manufacturing excellence, alongside productivity, resilience, and sustainability. Leading factories are moving from AI pilots to "cognitive networks" that require a workforce capable of real‑time...
Rippling, the cloud‑based HR and payroll SaaS provider, launched an AI‑powered suite that automates hiring, onboarding, payroll, benefits, IT provisioning and finance workflows. The new platform promises to cut manual effort for businesses of all sizes, signaling a deeper AI...
Qualiphi, an Egypt‑based AI career services platform, completed a six‑figure acquisition of Career Club from iCareer in the second half of 2025. The deal expands Qualiphi’s AI‑powered ecosystem across Egypt and the GCC, adding virtual career centre tools and strengthening...
The IRS’s 2026 Dirty Dozen list again flags phishing and impersonation as the top tax‑season threats, with payroll‑related scams now taking center stage. Experts explain that attackers target W‑2 data and payroll portals because employees expect tax communications and act...
A good heuristic for whether your company is moving fast enough for AI: Append "engineering" to every function. Then rate it. GTM → GTM Engineering ✅ | Product → Product Engineering ✅ | Talent → Talent Engineering ❌ Talent is where it breaks....
Rippling launched its AI analyst today. I'm not just the CEO - I'm also the Rippling admin for our co, and I run payroll for our ~ 5K global employees. Here are 5 specific ways Rippling AI has changed my job,...
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced a new HR shared service center, offering agencies a fee‑for‑service suite of HR tools and promising a six‑month migration timeline. The move comes as the federal workforce has shed roughly 7,600 HR...
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RT AI isn't just changing senior roles - it's quietly erasing the "learn by doing" years. If we hollow out entry-level jobs now, we'll face a talent debt later. #AI #Hiring #CIO #CHRO @Star_CIO https://t.co/W7YbwP6jrL
Enterprises pour resources into AI‑driven hiring assessments, yet many experience retention and performance gaps within the first year. The article identifies a misalignment between the competencies used to select candidates and the signals rewarded in performance evaluations. This hiring‑evaluation divide...
Founders: Example ROI math that makes prospects pay attention: You have 10 recruiters at $125k fully loaded cost = $1.25M annual spend Our tool makes them 30% more efficient = $375k value created We charge $50k = 7.5x ROI Make the math dead simple.
Cornerstone OnDemand unveiled the Spring 2026 Evolution of Cornerstone Galaxy, adding an AI‑Powered Course Assistant and Adaptive Learning Agent. The assistive and agentic tools embed contextual intelligence into learning, letting employees ask questions in‑session and receive role‑specific content recommendations without extra...
Transit agencies are turning to AI‑driven scheduling platforms to combat a global shortfall of roughly 2.4 million bus drivers. The tools let operators model alternative roster scenarios, communicate schedules in real time, and curb unscheduled overtime that fuels fatigue and turnover....
BI WORLDWIDE has launched Elevate Intelligence, an AI‑powered suite of agents that automate and personalize employee recognition across the employee lifecycle. Built on agentic AI, the agents proactively identify recognition moments, suggest awards, and generate celebratory messages, reducing administrative friction....
Aderant, the Atlanta‑based provider of law‑firm business management software, has integrated AI‑driven features into its vi by Aderant talent‑management suite. The new capabilities, embedded in viEval and viAllocate, include AI‑assisted performance evaluations, real‑time sentiment analysis of employee feedback, and automatic...
On Monday at the GPU Technology Conference in Santa Clara, Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang unveiled a plan to give engineers token grants valued at roughly half of their annual base salary—potentially $100,000‑$150,000 per employee—to boost recruitment and productivity. The...
On March 18, 2026, Dutch HR‑tech startup WorkFlex announced it has raised €37 million in a funding round led by Spectrum Equity. The capital will fund European expansion of its AI‑powered platform that automates tax, immigration and labour‑law compliance for cross‑border...
Atlassian announced today that it will lay off 1,600 employees—about 10% of its global staff—to redirect spending toward artificial intelligence and enterprise sales. The move, highlighted by Arielle Executive’s Steven McConnell, has ignited warnings of a “chaos tsunami” in the...
Workday announced today that co‑founder Aneel Bhusri has returned as chief executive officer and simultaneously unveiled Sana, an agent‑building AI platform. The rollout includes pre‑built agents for onboarding, expense reporting, contract intelligence and more, and lets customers create custom agents...
