HCM Technology Report

This week in HR tech news: Low-code development tools begin creeping into HR; Ultimate Software and Kronos want employers to actually use D&I research. And more.

SVP Greg Pryor on how Workday maintained, and maybe even increased, engagement as it pivoted to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic.  

This week in HR tech news: Workday launches new tools, because experience. Employers hesitate to implement COVID-19 testing. And more.

Sponsored: ADP Product Manager Brianne Wilson on compensation philosophy, things you should consider when designing your compensation plan, and why it all matters. 

In this week's roundup: COVID-19 is pushing employers to reimagine employee experience, and that might help SAP SuccessFactors HXM.

Employees don’t love the idea of “being watched,” and that’s going to slow the adoption of passive-monitoring technology. That and the news.

Oracle HCM Senior Vice President Emily He explores how remote work impacts family dynamics, employee communications and technology.  

Most CFOs plan to reconfigure their offices for physical distancing. More than half may alter schedules to minimize the chance of infection. They're optimistic. But what do employees think? 

Government officials and many executives are anxious to “get back to business.” Workers aren’t there yet. And more.

"The workforce is very adaptable, it's very agile and it's willing to co-create your next chapter of business with you."

Ultimate Software's Cecile Alper-Leroux: Relationships with employers will be made or broken based on how people were treated during the pandemic.

ADP Business Anthropologist Martha Bird: "Things that would normally take months or maybe even years to implement, you're now talking weeks to turn that around. So I think probably this expectation around speed will continue across a lot of industries."

More than two-thirds of U.S. small businesses have felt the coronavirus’s impact on sales, and nearly as many expect their sales will continue to drop.

HCM technology vendors say they’re focused on supporting customers as HR departments scramble to keep their companies working.

Employers and HCM technology vendors wonder how having so many employees work remotely could impact the very way work gets done.

The soon-to-be-merged company is starting out with growth in mind: It plans to add 3,000 employees over the next three years.

ADP's Global Head of Infrastructure Mark Chamberlain on why the cloud provides developers with an avenue for growth--at a faster rate and with a lot of flexibility.

HRExaminer's John Sumser talks about intelligent tools and HR's role in determining the ethics of AI.

Cornerstone plans to integrate Clustree’s skills technology into its People Development solution over the next year.

Customer service has always been a big part of the buying decision when it comes to HR software. But new research found that vendors are falling behind.

Researchers at the University of Tulsa are digging into whether surfing kitty and puppy pictures can boost an employee’s performance. Here's what they hope to uncover.

Before we can predict what will happen in 2020, we have to consider what did occur during 2019. So instead of pulling out our crystal ball, let's look back at how HCM technology’s landscape changed over the last 12 months.

ADP's vision of “smart and personalized” HCM technology hints that the 70-year-old behemoth may be more nimble than you think.

Ceridian CEO David Ossip believes the company can expand into 20 countries within the next three years, using recent moves in Australia as a model.

Cornerstone OnDemand announced a deal with Facebook’s Oculus to incorporate virtual reality into its LMS.