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Payroll’s Slow Path to AI Adoption

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Organizations are under growing pressure to apply AI across core business functions. In payroll, adoption is moving more slowly, not because the value is in question, but because the foundation is not ready. This hesitation carries real business implications in a function that can account for between 40–60% of operating expenses inside large organizations, according to recent UKG and KPMG research. AI only works as well as the environment it operates in. It depends on reliable data, connected systems, and consistent processes. Many payroll environments still lack those conditions, limiting the ability to apply AI with confidence. When the foundation is unstable, layering AI on top doesn’t simplify payroll, it amplifies risk. It introduces new exposure across payroll accuracy, compliance, financial reporting, and employee trust. To move forward, the focus cannot start with AI alone. It must start with strengthening data quality, improving system integration, and clarifying clearer gov...
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Latin America Hiring Savings Are Funding More Senior U.S. Teams, Hire With Near Data Shows

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Analysis of 2,000+ placements finds 84% of Latin American hires were mid-level or senior as U.S. companies reinvest savings into more experienced teams. Hire With Near, a nearshore staffing and recruiting agency that helps U.S. companies hire in Latin America across all departments and industries, released an analysis showing that U.S. companies are using the savings from hiring in Latin America to recruit more experienced talent and build larger teams, not simply to cut costs. Across more than 2,000 placements analyzed in the company’s 2026 State of LatAm Hiring Report, 84% of hires were mid-level or senior, including VP- and C-suite roles. The finding challenges a common assumption that companies hire abroad mainly for inexpensive, junior or short-term labor. Hire With Near’s data shows the opposite. U.S. companies save an average of $35,000 to $64,000 per hire, or 30% to 70% depending on role and seniority, and many reinvest those savings into the kind of experience an...
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Cyndra AI Launches Platform for Businesses to Deploy AI Employees Across Real Operations

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Cyndra helps companies and agencies launch AI employees that learn internal processes, connect to 1,000+ tools, and complete repeatable work with approvals, memory, audit logs, and human oversight. Cyndra AI announced the launch of its AI employee platform, built for companies that want AI to do more than answer questions. Cyndra lets businesses create role-based AI workers that learn company processes, communicate through workplace chat tools, connect to business apps, and complete repeatable operational tasks with the level of human approval the company chooses. The company built Cyndra around a frustration it kept hearing from operators: AI demos look impressive, but most tools still leave the work sitting on someone’s desk. Chatbots can answer questions. Traditional automations can move data from one field to another. But many business workflows need something more flexible – an agent that understands the process, uses the right tools, remembers context, and knows when to ...
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HireRight Releases 2026 Global Benchmark Report

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Rising identity fraud, AI adoption, and workforce trust concerns reshape hiring and background screening priorities worldwide HireRight , a leading provider of global background screening services and workforce management solutions, announced the release of its 2026 Global Benchmark Report. This year’s comprehensive report identifies regional and global trends in background screening, talent acquisition, and workforce management, based on the survey responses of more than 1,900 human resource, risk, and talent acquisition professionals worldwide, collected between Feb. 18 and March 6, 2026. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI “As organizations navigate rapid advances in AI, and increasing workforce fraud risks, the findings in HireRight’s 2026 Global Benchmark Report provide valuable insight into how employers around the world are adapting their screening strategies” Among this year’s su...
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PageUp Launches Paige, Unifying Recruiting in One Multi-Functional Conversational Assistant

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Setting a new industry standard, Paige gives recruiters and hiring managers citation-backed answers across pipelines, applications, and history from a single query PageUp , a global leader in talent acquisition software, announced the general availability of Paige, its AI-powered talent acquisition agentic assistant. Unlike other agentic solutions on the market, Paige serves as the single assistant for every use case in the hiring process, eliminating the need for recruiters and hiring managers to juggle multiple tools or pay for additional agents. Embedded directly into PageUp’s award-winning talent acquisition suite, Paige can review candidate pipelines, analyze applicant information, monitor progress and more through its simple conversational interface. In early customer pilots, Paige helped recruiting teams cut their average time-to-shortlist by up to 75%, freeing recruiters to spend that time on engaging with candidates rather than searching across systems. Paige has also receiv...
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Sunbit Appoints Veteran HR Leader Britt Provost as Senior Vice President of Human Resources

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Accomplished executive with deep expertise scaling high-growth technology companies to accelerate people strategy and organizational excellence at Sunbit Sunbit , the personalized financial partner that unlocks your best way to pay, announced the appointment of Britt Provost as Senior Vice President of Human Resources. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI Provost brings more than two decades of talent and human resources leadership experience across high-growth technology companies. Throughout her career, she has guided organizations through transformational growth phases. In this role, Provost will lead Sunbit’s global people strategy, talent development, leadership programs and organizational effectiveness efforts. She will be instrumental in helping ensure the company continues to attract, develop and retain exceptional talent as it scales. Provost brings more than two decades of ta...
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Remote Hiring Assessments Are Facing a New Reliability Problem

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Remote hiring brought obvious advantages to the recruiting process. It widened access to talent, reduced scheduling and travel burdens, and made it easier for employers to move candidates through evaluation steps quickly. It also introduced a growing challenge around reliability. As more screening, testing, and interviewing happens online, employers are having to ask a more difficult question: how much confidence do they have that the person being evaluated is actually the one completing the work? This concern is getting harder to dismiss as an edge case. Reports on hiring fraud now include a wider range of behaviors, from plagiarism, ringers, AI-generated answers, and deepfakes , to enough AI-powered cheating in job interviews that some employers are restoring in-person steps to verify identity. The issue is no longer limited to whether a candidate might look up an answer during a test. In some cases, employers are dealing with real uncertainty around authorship, outside assistance,...
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