Survey Questions Can Support Managers, or Make Them Feel Attacked
At the Qualtrics Experience Live event, BHP’s head of organisational development and analytics, Vaughn Sheahan, explained how subtle changes in survey wording can turn manager feedback into a constructive tool or make it feel like an attack. He described BHP’s twice‑yearly “engagement and perception survey,” dubbed the “jewel of our crown,” which was dramatically redesigned in 2020 after the new CEO gave his team permission to “shake it up.” The overhaul focused on phrasing that encourages accountability while minimizing defensiveness. Sheahan emphasized that each survey cycle still uncovers fresh insights, highlighting the evolving nature of employee listening programs.
TA Tech Notes: Job Board Owners Unite, New Tools Unveiled
The TA Tech North America conference in Charleston gathered roughly 200 job‑board owners, recruitment ad agencies, and traffic players. Peter Weddle opened with the claim that job boards are the “tip of the spear” in hiring. Greenhouse Software’s benchmark shows...
73% of Employers Say They Use AI in Hiring Decisions
A new MyPerfectResume survey of 1,000 U.S. hiring managers shows that 73% of employers now use AI in hiring decisions, with 65% relying on it to automatically reject candidates before human review. AI’s reach is expanding beyond recruiting, as 52%...
Week in Review: How to Prevent Hiring Someone without the Right Skills
Employers are grappling with a surge in "skillfishing," where candidates falsify credentials, compounding the volume challenge in hiring. A DOJ report highlighted $6.8 million in fraudulent payouts from Fortune 500 firms tied to state‑backed remote‑work scams, underscoring the financial stakes of inadequate...
Air Force Experimenting with Using AI for Promotion Boards
The U.S. Air Force has created an "AI Action Team" that now numbers about 100 members to boost AI literacy and explore practical uses of the technology. One pilot project targets the officer promotion board, where AI will automate data‑gathering...
HR Tech Partnership News
Hudson Talent Solutions partnered with AI hiring firm Maki People to embed real‑time candidate insights across its recruitment process outsourcing model. OnePay became a Workday Wellness partner, linking its fintech tools with AI‑driven benefit recommendations and Enhanced Direct Deposit Switching....
UKG Unveils Agentic-Powered UKG Pro Pay with Workforce AI at Payroll Congress 2026
UKG introduced Pro Pay with Workforce AI at Payroll Congress 2026, a suite that leverages agentic, assistive and generative AI to turn payroll into a real‑time, action‑oriented system. The platform automates auditing, anomaly detection, variance analysis and correction workflows, cutting...
AI Automates HR Compliance, Except for the Area Tech Companies Need
Artificial intelligence now automates most HR compliance tasks, yet UK tech firms still manage sponsor licence obligations with spreadsheets and email reminders. Between July 2024 and June 2025, 1,948 sponsor licences were revoked – more than twice the previous year...
New HR Tech Features: Payscale, Ashby
Payscale unveiled Smart Reporting, an AI‑powered tool that creates customized compensation, equity, performance, and market data reports in seconds through natural‑language chat, eliminating manual spreadsheet work. The system draws on decades of compensation expertise, giving CHROs and analysts real‑time insights...
Would Canada Ever Ban AI-Related Layoffs Like China?
A Hangzhou court ruled that employers cannot fire or demote workers solely to replace them with artificial intelligence, siding with a senior tech employee who refused a lower‑paid transfer. The judgment underscores AI’s intended role to augment labor rather than...
AI Promised to Reduce the Load. What Happened?
AI promises of higher productivity are materializing, with Upwork reporting a 40% output boost for AI‑enabled workers. However, the same cohort shows alarming burnout, as 88% feel exhausted and are twice as likely to consider quitting. Studies label this strain...
The AI Bill Is Coming Due, and CHROs Need to Be Ready
AI pricing is shifting from bundled seat fees to token‑based consumption, a change sparked by Anthropic and soon to be adopted by OpenAI and Google. This move eliminates the informal AI subsidy, driving enterprise AI budgets from roughly $1.2 million in...
Vendasta Levels up with European Deal to Roll Out MARiO AI
Vendasta, a Saskatoon‑based SaaS provider, signed a deal with Italy’s largest internet firm, Italiaonline, to deploy its AI‑driven employee platform MARiO to over 100,000 Italian SMBs. MARiO can handle phone calls, appointment booking and multilingual customer interactions, aiming to close...
Beyond the Layoffs - Will Companies Live to Regret Their AI-Related Job Cuts? (Spoiler - They Just Might...)
Industry leaders warn that many companies are slashing headcount before AI systems are proven, creating strategic risk. Experts Shomron Jacob and Matthew Baden note that premature cuts erode institutional knowledge, inflate error rates, and often lead to costly re‑hires. Only...
How AI Is Changing Recruiting: 10 Trends
AI has moved from isolated point‑solution tools to orchestrated intelligence that shares candidate context across the entire hiring workflow. Autonomous agents now perform sourcing, screening, outreach and scheduling with minimal human input, letting recruiters manage 2‑3× more requisitions. Transparency mandates...
08.SAP SuccessFactors HCM Implementation – Data Migration Key Areas and Framework
SAP SuccessFactors’ latest implementation guide spotlights the data migration workstream, outlining a structured framework for moving legacy HR data into the cloud. The post breaks down critical steps such as data extraction, cleansing, mapping, validation, and load sequencing. It emphasizes...
The Shadow AI Problem HR Leaders Can No Longer Ignore
Lenovo’s Work Reborn Report, based on a survey of 6,000 employees, reveals that more than 70% of workers use AI weekly, with up to one‑third doing so outside IT oversight. The study labels the rapid, unsupervised adoption an “AI execution...
Silicon Valley’s AI ‘Tokenmaxxing’ Obsession Has a Big Problem – and Philosophers Saw It Coming
Meta employees recently discovered a secret internal leaderboard called "Claudeonomics" that ranks staff by the number of AI tokens they consume, awarding titles like “Token Legend.” The practice, known as tokenmaxxing, has spread to OpenAI, Anthropic, Shopify and Sequoia, where...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Snowflake Startup Spotlight: TestGorilla
TestGorilla, a global talent discovery platform, leverages more than 2 million skills‑tested candidates and over 350 science‑backed assessments to enable AI‑driven, skills‑based hiring. The company centralizes all recruitment, finance and CRM data in Snowflake, reporting up to ten‑fold faster query performance...
2026 Mid‑Atlantic Regional Employer Conference
Littler’s 2026 Mid‑Atlantic Regional Employer Conference, titled “Employment Intelligence 2 – Powering the Future Workplace,” will run from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. on a single day, with a $405 registration fee (10% discount for multiple registrants). The event targets in‑house counsel and...
Build an AI Tool, Land a Job: Data Center Operator Launches Hiring Contest
DataVita, a Scottish data‑center operator, has launched the OpenClaw Challenge, an AI‑building competition that replaces traditional resumes. Participants must create a functional AI tool using Anthropic’s open‑source OpenClaw agent, judged on originality, technical merit, business value, security, and communication. The...
Google Plans to Let Software Engineers Use AI Assistants in Job Interviews
Google is piloting an interview format that lets software engineering candidates use an AI assistant, specifically its Gemini model, during the code‑comprehension round. The pilot targets junior to mid‑level roles on select U.S. teams and could expand globally if successful....
Just 4% of SMEs Are Ready for the EU’s Pay Transparency Directive, Despite Employing Two-Thirds of Ireland’s Workforce
HRLocker’s survey reveals only 4% of Irish SMEs are fully prepared for the EU Pay Transparency Directive, which will be transposed into Irish law despite the government missing the June 7 deadline. The directive mandates objective, documented pay decisions, yet 35%...
The Smart Way to Track Your Work Hours Without Stress or Errors
Accurate work‑hour tracking is becoming essential as remote, freelance, and flexible schedules proliferate. Traditional manual methods often cause errors, lost earnings, and payroll headaches. Free online hour calculators now offer instant, precise results that any device can access. By automating...
Tech Mahindra and UKG Partner to Accelerate AI-Driven Workforce Transformation and Adoption
Tech Mahindra and UKG announced a strategic partnership to accelerate AI‑driven workforce transformation for North American enterprises, especially small and mid‑market firms. Tech Mahindra will deploy the UKG Workforce Operating Platform internally and expand its UKG services practice to implement,...
7 Best Contractor Payment Software I Recommend in 2026
The article ranks the seven top contractor payment platforms for 2026, highlighting Deel as the overall leader, followed by Gusto, Remote, Rippling, RUN Powered by ADP, Fiverr Enterprise, and Payoneer Workforce Management. It bases the rankings on G2 data, user...