HCM Technology Report

The challenges of creating effective experiences with technology, and new approaches to experience design

Analyst, writer, and speaker, and podcaster Mervyn Dinnen speaks about the boons of internal mobility, employee recognition, and fostering a strong relationship with your employees that will stand the test of time. Skills are not just buzzwords that will disappear, giving way to the next new hot topic. Companies like Fuel50 back in 2016 were working on internal mobility, and nowadays it seems like...

This week in HR Tech: Playvox expands workforce management planning, gig workers continue to face financial challenges and lack proper tools.

Live at the HR Tech 2022 conference, our guest Tim Sackett, President of HRU Technical Resources and creator of the Tim Sackett Project, speaks with Mark Feffer about building an inventory of skills, enhancing learning environments, and being data rich yet information poor. On the topic of skills, it's easy to not fully grasp the abilities of your workforce. If you don't successfully get an invent...

Payscale acquired Agora Solutions, Talogy launched a suite of 360-degree feedback solutions and more.

Live at the HR Tech 2022 conference, our guest Sarah White, CEO of Aspect 43, speaks with Mark Feffer about what skills *are* and looks at the bigger picture of the whole movement. The phrase skills has become the new buzzword of the year, but a lot of these vendors and executives don't exactly use the phrase correctly. A lot of skills development platforms don't seem to be as effective as adverti...

This week in HR tech: DailyPay partners to aid financial wellness, while Ceridian releases new features for Dayforce.

There's quite a prolific conversation to unpack in today's episode of PEOPLETECH. Live at the HR tech 2022 conference, our two guest Jason Averbook (CEO of Leapgen) and Jess Von Bank (Head of Brand Strategy at Leapgen) speak with Mark Feffer about acquired and desired skills, the ebb and flow of this fluctuating industry, and the shift in employee power. There's been massive shifts of trust, work...

This week in HR technology: UKG acquires Quorbit, ServiceNow launches workplace planning solution and more. 

Live at the HR tech 2022 conference, our guest Russell Klosk (Managing Director of Accenture) speaks with Mark Feffer about rethinking compensation for up-skilled employees, and how to transition your organization into a learning oriented environment. Russell Klosk talks about how we're finally living in a "data-driven" profession. There's been a lot of talk across ATS systems, talent marketplaces...

Live at the HR tech 2022 conference, our guest Robin Schooling (VP of Growth and Innovation at Cielo) speaks with Mark Feffer about rethinking compensation for up-skilled employees, and how to transition your organization into a learning oriented environment. We're bringing everything back to our roots at this HR Tech conference. Companies are reenforcing their core offerings, and it seems stickin...

In this week's HR technology news roundup: Paycor launches leadership program. Employees (heart) transparency.

Live at the HR tech 2022 conference, our guests Chad Sowash and Joel Cheesman of Chad and Cheese riff with Mark Feffer about up-skilling, robots of the future, and communicating with younger applicants. Chad thinks that these HCM systems and companies are so big and bloated that they're sort of broken, yet some of the smaller companies don't have the baggage of living in the past. He is hopeful th...

Live at the HR tech 2022 conference, our guest Jason Lauritsen CEO of Cultivayo sits down with Mark Feffer to talk about making the work experience more human. Fuel50 and WorkHuman have picked up the torch on this, and the rest of the industry seems to be trending in this direction. Technology solutions sometimes gets in the way of providing the genuine experience a lot of candidates are looking f...

This week in HR tech: Cornerstone OnDemand expands content, HiBob launches workforce planning, and more. 

Live at HR Tech 2022, Jessica Miller Merrell (Founder of Workology) sits down with our host Mark Feffer about preventing turnover, employee mental health, and how upskilling could be the way to keep your employees happy and committed to your organization. HR needs to understand the business that they're working in so they can be a part of the conversation in company decisions. We have a lot of peo...

Live at HR Tech 2022, Mary Faulkner (Principal at IA) talks to Mark Feffer about the drive to learn: Many organizations seem to lose sight of the learning experience, and then they wonder why people quit. Skills are a common conversation at this conference and in HR in general. Building these abilities has consistently been a difficult issue in this industry because the first thing to get cut in a...

This week in HR technology: SwiftConnect announces alliance with Microsoft; Sense integrates with WhatsApp.

Live at the HR tech 2022 conference our guest Camille Prost, Managing Director of Accenture, joins Mark Feffer on today's episode of PEOPLETECH. Camille answers on what amazing things he's been seeing at HR Tech and also in the industry. From skills of the future to labor shortages, a lot has happened in the past year. There's a lot of focus on how to identify and source the best talent, along wit...

Live at the HR tech 2022 conference, esteemed industry consultant Larry McAlister of Corporate Humanist talks with our host Mark Feffer about how to view building skills successfully, and the role skills play in developing your talent strategy. The pandemic has changed everything. There's been a shift of power to talent, and organizations have to do things differently now. In regards to the common...

This week in HR technology: Perceptyx guides managers, HRSoft unveils PAYview and more in our weekly roundup.

Changes in work, building software and how companies and employees connect

In this week's HR technology roundup: Calendly acquires Prelude; Oracle releases workforce management solution, and more.

Covid’s impact, how companies can use benefits to keep employees on board and how they evolve to meet the times.

How data’s used today, the role of innovation in analytics and user-friendly data.