Your HR Tech Stack Is Being Rebuilt Around You. Do You Have a Voice in It?
Q1 2026 saw $1.9 billion in venture funding and 40 M&A deals reshaping the HR tech landscape. HCM platforms are the primary acquirers, pulling recruiting, talent management, rewards and AI sourcing tools into a single stack. About 15 of the deals highlighted AI capability as the core rationale, meaning new intelligence will appear via integration rather than product updates. CHROs are urged to interrogate their vendors about upcoming acquisitions, not just roadmaps, to stay ahead of the rapid consolidation.
Choosing the Right Workforce Management Software: 8 Priorities for HR Leaders
A recent Capterra report shows HR software ranks third among B2B categories for buyer’s remorse, with 62% of purchasers incurring major financial loss. Workforce management (WFM) systems are especially vulnerable, as poor fit disrupts scheduling, payroll accuracy, and compliance audits....
The New AI Search Rules for Your Career Site
James Ellis warns that AI‑driven assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and Google’s AI will soon be the primary gateway for job seekers. In 2026, career‑site SEO must shift from keyword stuffing to building a searchable entity home page that AI...
AI Leads to Unintended Consequences in Recruitment, Finds Study
A CV‑Library study of nearly 500 recruiters and 1,100 candidates reveals that AI‑driven hiring often filters out strong talent. More than a third of recruiters admit missing top candidates, while about half of job seekers say their applications were rejected...
Reward & Recognition : Configure Business Rule to Avoid “No Budget Holder” Issue for Top Hierarchy
SAP’s Reward & Recognition module can block top‑level employees from nominating peers when the "Nominator" budget hierarchy is used, because the system expects a budget holder but the root of the hierarchy has none. SAP recommends adding a custom business...
Employee Onboarding Software: Transforming HR Tech in the UK
Employee onboarding software is reshaping UK HR tech by replacing paper‑based processes with cloud‑based, automated platforms. Solutions like Eli Onboarding let HR teams manage documents, training, and introductions from a single portal, improving accuracy, compliance, and employee engagement. The shift...
Expectations vs Reality | HR Leaders Warned Against AI Overreliance Amid Mass Job Loss Fears
The Guardian cites EY Item Club and Deloitte forecasts that up to 250,000 UK jobs could be lost as the economy teeters toward recession, driven by rising energy costs and geopolitical uncertainty. Business confidence is sliding, prompting HR leaders to...
Appcast Releases 2026 U.K. Recruitment Marketing Benchmark Report as Labour Market Softens and Hiring Costs Decline
Appcast released its fourth‑annual 2026 U.K. Recruitment Marketing Benchmark Report, analyzing 3.6 million ad clicks and 880 000 applications from over 190 employers. The data show a softened labour market in 2025, with unemployment rising to 5.2% and payroll jobs falling by...
Former Meta Executive Warns ‘Nothing Would Ever Be the Same’, Builds AI Tools to Help Gen Z Find Work
Former Meta Business AI head Clara Shih warns that the entry‑level job market is the weakest it has been in 37 years, as AI agents increasingly replace human tasks. Drawing on two decades of AI experience at Meta, Salesforce and...
What Is the Most Reliable HR Software for Mid-Sized Companies?
G2’s Spring 2026 Mid‑Market Grid identifies Rippling, HiBob HRIS and HROne as the highest‑rated HR platforms for mid‑sized firms, each earning near‑perfect user‑satisfaction scores. Native Teams, Worknice, Viventium Software and Sloneek lead the customer‑support rankings, while Native Teams, Worknice, Agendrix and...
OPM’s 2027 Budget Proposal Hinges on Modernizing Federal HR
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) submitted its FY 2027 budget request, proposing $375 million in discretionary spending—$43 million less than the House’s $418 million recommendation and below current levels. Despite a shrinking workforce of roughly 2,074 FTEs, OPM earmarks funds for a sweeping...
Big Four Accounting Chooses AI over Humans, Cuts Benefits & Hiring
The Big Four accounting firms are accelerating AI adoption while slashing staff and benefits. KPMG recently eliminated 10% of its U.S. audit partners, and Deloitte cut paid time off, froze its pension plan, and halved family‑leave benefits. Junior hiring has...
Gusto Unveils 75 New Features for Small Businesses
Gusto announced it has crossed the 500,000‑customer mark for small‑business payroll and HR services, and on the same day launched nearly 75 new features in its Spring Showcase. The updates span payroll automation, AI‑driven financial intelligence, expanded tax‑credit tools, and...
AI in Recruiting: Benefits, Limitations, and How to Use It Effectively
AI has become a staple in talent acquisition, with 88% of companies now using it for some hiring function. However, only 8% of HR leaders feel their managers can wield the technology effectively, creating a readiness gap. AI‑generated resumes are...
Global Payroll Platform Borderless AI Now Lets Employees Get Paid in Crypto
Borderless AI, a Toronto‑based global payroll platform, launched Crypto‑Native Payroll, allowing employers to allocate part of an employee’s salary into cryptocurrencies before payroll finalization. The feature aims to eliminate post‑payroll transfers, reduce transaction and exchange‑rate costs, and give workers flexible...
What Are the Job Listing Deal Breakers for Applicants?
A Monster survey released April 24 finds that 60% of workers will not apply for jobs lacking a salary range, making pay transparency the top deal‑breaker. Unpaid assignments, negative employer reviews, vague descriptions and lengthy applications also deter large portions of...
Apprenticeship.com Announces New Apprenticeship and Paid Training Job Board as AI Reshapes Entry-Level Hiring
Apprenticeship.com launched a free job board that consolidates thousands of apprenticeship and paid work‑based training listings across skilled trades, technology, healthcare, and business. Founder Joel Goldberg says artificial intelligence is reshaping entry‑level hiring, prompting employers to favor structured, skills‑based pathways....
How HR Can Break the Tech Regret Cycle
A new Accenture and Wharton School report warns that HR leaders often experience software‑buying regret, which can erode budgets and employee trust. The study argues that HR executives possess the influence and experience needed to prevent purchases from feeling like...
How HR Can Break the Tech Regret Cycle
HR leaders can curb costly software‑buying regret by aligning tech purchases with genuine organizational needs. A new Accenture‑Wharton report finds three‑quarters of U.S. SMBs are re‑evaluating recent tech investments, and 82 % of those who regret switching cite growth‑draining costs. The...
Why Gen Z's AI Skillset Isn't Translating to the Workplace
A recent Arkansas State University survey finds 26% of employers say entry‑level hires fall short on AI skills, and 18% have rejected Gen Z candidates for lacking AI expertise. While Gen Z is comfortable with tools like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, their...
Why the Recent Living Wage Rise Should Prompt a Payroll Infrastructure Rethink
The UK National Living Wage rose by £1,040 (about $1,320) per full‑time employee, raising payroll costs and exposing fragile payment processes. Around 25% of UK workers experience payroll errors, with nearly half encountering repeat mistakes and many taking over a...
BambooHR Launches Broker Partner Program to Strengthen Broker-Client Relationships
BambooHR announced a new Broker Partner Program aimed at benefits brokers, offering white‑glove implementation, dedicated support, and technology tools to help brokers serve clients. The program positions brokers as primary advisors while BambooHR supplies the platform and service infrastructure. It...
Instructure and Brandon Hall Group Partner to Advance Research on Future of Work and Lifelong Learning
Instructure has been named an Eminence Partner by Brandon Hall Group, a leading HCM research firm, to co‑develop independent research on the future of work and lifelong learning. The collaboration will produce a Bellwether Research Report that examines shifting learner...
The Human Skills HR Must Prioritize to Make AI Work
HR leaders are confronting a surge in AI use while many employees lack the skills to validate and guide machine‑generated outputs. Roughly two‑thirds of U.S. workers say their firms encourage AI, yet a third receive no training, creating risk of...
Korbyt-Commissioned Study Conducted by Reworked Reveals Why Employees Tune Out Workplace Communication
Korbyt and research firm Reworked released the 2026 State of Workplace Communication Survey, which polled 1,175 full‑time U.S. employees at firms with 50 or more staff. The study found that workers tune out internal messages that are not actionable, trusted,...
Automating Probation Extensions After Sick Leave in SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
Organizations often extend probation when employees miss days due to short‑term sickness, but manual tracking creates administrative overhead and legal exposure. SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central now offers a configurable workflow that automatically adds the exact number of sick‑leave days to...
AI Was Supposed to Elevate HR. What if It Does the Opposite?
HR executives are banking on artificial intelligence to shift the function from administrative support to strategic partner, but the transition is far from assured. Gartner reports that 95% of HR teams have AI projects, yet only 18% achieve significant transformation,...
Social Recruiting Ad Company Acquired
GAIA, a European HR‑tech provider, announced the acquisition of SocialJobs, a social recruiting ad platform, to fast‑track its expansion into the United States. The deal gives GAIA access to SocialJobs’ AI‑driven job‑matching engine and roughly 1.2 million monthly active users. At...
'Just for Show': Superficial AI Strategies Are Ruining Adoption
Executives are touting AI‑centric strategies, yet employee buy‑in remains shallow. A Betterworks survey shows 59% of leaders claim a clear AI vision, but only 8% of workers agree. Research by Writer and Workplace Intelligence finds AI super‑users are five times...
Sage Launches Sage HCM to Connect HR, Payroll and Finance
Sage announced Sage HCM, a unified human capital management suite that ties HR, payroll, and finance data together for mid‑market firms in North America. The solution integrates with Sage Intacct and includes an AI‑driven HCM Agent that automates routine payroll...
What Are the Best Enterprise Social Network Platforms for Large Organizations?
G2’s Spring 2026 Enterprise Grid® Report ranks Workvivo, DSMN8 and Blink as the highest‑scoring enterprise social networking (ESN) platforms for large organizations, with Workvivo achieving a 9.9/10 user‑satisfaction rating. Haystack, Workvivo and MangoApps lead the category for customer‑support quality, while Workvivo,...
What Is the Best Recruitment Marketing Platform for Enterprises?
According to G2’s Spring 2026 Enterprise Grid Report, Bullhorn, Handshake for Employers, and Greenhouse are the overall best recruitment‑marketing platforms for large enterprises. JobDiva, Bullhorn, and Greenhouse achieve the highest user‑satisfaction scores, while Jobylon, RippleMatch and Handshake lead in customer‑support ratings....
1H 2026 SmartRecruiters for SAP SuccessFactors: Connected Solutions and New AI-First Capabilities
SAP announced the first‑half 2026 release of SmartRecruiters for SAP SuccessFactors, adding AI‑first recruiting tools and tighter integration with the SAP HCM suite. The update introduces AI‑driven candidate matching, automated interview scheduling, and a new API marketplace for third‑party extensions....
Handling Subject Access Requests with Confidence Under New Data Act
The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 gives UK HR teams new, legally backed tools to handle the expected flood of subject access requests (DSARs) that will follow the Employment Rights Act 2025’s reduction of the unfair‑dismissal qualifying period to...
Inside the Grammys’ Anthropic Experiment: How In‑house AI Is Rewriting Workforce Rules
The Recording Academy is piloting an in‑house version of Anthropic’s Claude AI with about 20 senior leaders to formalize AI usage and boost productivity. Executive backing has accelerated the shift from ad‑hoc tools like ChatGPT to a governed internal platform,...
BNY Puts $6,500 Behind Employees’ Path to Owning a Home
BNY announced a new homeowner program that provides up to $6,500 in down‑payment assistance for U.S. employees earning less than $100,000 annually. Eligible staff also receive homeownership education and access to mortgage‑related benefits. The initiative comes as the National Association...
Mitigating Driver Identity Fraud without Slowing Hiring
Carriers are turning to integrated digital onboarding workflows to accelerate driver hiring while combating a surge in identity fraud. By embedding biometric verification and automated checks into applicant tracking and HR systems, fleets can reduce time‑to‑hire, lower candidate drop‑out, and...
Payslip and Deloitte Lead on the Acceleration of Global Pay Transparency Demands
Payslip, the global payroll control and AI firm, announced it now automates over 1.3 million payslips each year for clients in more than 125 countries, processing roughly €5 billion (about $5.4 billion) in payroll payments. The milestone coincides with the two‑year anniversary of...
WageSafe’s Proactive Model Outperforms Traditional Audits in Preventing Costly Wage Violations
WageSafe, Australia’s first real‑time wage compliance platform, released data showing its continuous payroll monitoring outperforms periodic audits in catching wage errors. The automated engine cross‑checks each pay run against complex award rules, flagging under‑ or over‑payments before funds are disbursed....
Motivosity Named Certified Paylocity Partner, Powering Connected Employee Recognition Experiences
Motivosity has become a certified partner in the Paylocity Marketplace, allowing its employee recognition platform to integrate directly with Paylocity’s HR system. The integration automatically syncs employee data such as hires, role changes and terminations, removing manual steps for HR...
Thrive Launches Abacode Compliance Services to Help Organizations Build and Maintain Continuous Compliance
Thrive, a global technology outsourcing firm, has launched Abacode Compliance Services, a managed Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) offering built on its 2025 acquisition of Abacode. The service combines consulting, continuous monitoring, and a centralized compliance portal to help enterprises...
Why Walmart Is Rolling Out AI to 2M Employees
Walmart announced a company‑wide effort to give all 2.1 million employees basic AI competencies, leveraging an internal platform called Squiggly and external large‑language models. The initiative, championed by EVP Donna Morris, includes role‑specific certifications built with OpenAI and Google Gemini and...
AI Is Ratcheting up How Much Your Company Tracks You at Work
Employers are expanding workplace surveillance beyond productivity monitoring to collect detailed user interactions for training AI agents. Meta has rolled out an internal tool that records keystrokes, mouse movements and other digital actions to feed its AI models, sparking employee...
Inside the Dashboards JPMorgan Is Using to Track and Rank Engineers' AI Use
JPMorgan is using internal dashboards to score engineers on AI tool usage, including GitHub Copilot and Anthropic's Claude. The system ranks roughly 70,000 provisioned users, flagging about 24,000 as active, and categorizes them as non‑, light‑, or heavy‑users. Managers have...
Crosschq Launches Advanced Fraud Prevention and AI Fluency Modules in 360 Reference Checking Platform
Crosschq unveiled two new modules for its 360 reference‑checking platform: an advanced fraud‑prevention suite and AI‑fluency assessment tools. The fraud suite validates reference legitimacy, flags concerning signals, detects suspicious activity, and integrates ID.me identity verification to meet IAL2 standards. The...
Folks Launches All-in-One HR and Payroll Platform Designed for Canadian Businesses
Folks, a Canadian HR‑tech firm operating since 2010, unveiled an all‑in‑one HRIS that bundles recruitment, employee data, performance, time‑off, and fully compliant payroll. The platform is engineered for multi‑province organizations, automatically handling each province’s tax rules and Québec’s distinct regulations....
7 Best Ethics And Compliance Learning Software For 2026
The ethics and compliance learning software market is set to reach $772 million in 2026 and $1.5 billion by 2035, growing at a 7.6% CAGR. A new guide ranks seven platforms—Absorb LMS, KnowBe4 Compliance Plus, Mineral, Litmos, EasyLlama, Continu and Ethena—based on...
Best Employee Communications Software: My Top 5 Picks
The article identifies a gap between corporate messaging and employee reception, citing a 54 % moderate engagement rating in the 2026 Global State of Internal Communications report. It reviews over 20 platforms and highlights five purpose‑built employee communication tools—Connecteam, Workvivo, Assembly,...
McDonald's Japan Starts to Rehire Ex-Workers for Flexible 'Spot' Work Hours
McDonald’s Japan has launched a "Come Back! Crew" program that lets former employees return for one‑off, flexible shifts without submitting resumes or attending interviews. The initiative targets a pool of roughly three million ex‑staff and is already active in about 1,000...
Why Career Sites Are the Future of Recruitment
The recruitment landscape is moving from generic job boards to AI‑powered career discovery platforms that tailor job listings to individual candidates. These career sites prioritize user experience, using machine‑learning algorithms to surface the most relevant openings. Employers are shifting focus...