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The Nekoosa School District has announced a new partnership with Edustaff, a leading provider of educational staffing services, to enhance the district’s ability to recruit, place, and retain high-quality substitute teachers, paraprofessionals, and support staff across its schools. The collaboration is designed to ensure continuity of instruction and student support throughout the academic year. Under the agreement, Edustaff will manage the full lifecycle of substitute and support staff recruitment — from sourcing and credentialing to scheduling and compliance — leveraging its proprietary technology platform and deep network of education professionals. This allows Nekoosa administrators and principals to focus on their core mission of delivering an exceptional learning experience for students. Edustaff brings decades of experience partnering with school districts across the Midwest to address the persistent challenge of staff shortages. The company’s approach combines personali...

With retention rising as a top strategic priority for employers, employees seek more financial guidance amid ongoing economic pressures. Equity compensation remains a key driver of employee motivation and satisfaction. Morgan Stanley at Work issued new data from its sixth annual State of the Workplace Financial Benefits Study. The research reveals workplace financial benefits are a powerful driver of employee satisfaction, engagement and retention, especially as a tighter job market, AI disruption and rising costs influence expectations for employer support. Financial stress remains a persistent challenge, fueling demand for practical planning guidance and help in maximizing existing benefits. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI Findings point to a focus on more comprehensive, integrated benefits strategies, where long-term planning, equity compensation and retirement savings support a...

HeroHire announces the launch of its autonomous AI recruiting platform, designed for the businesses that need hiring fixed most: small-to-mid-size companies stuck in what HeroHire calls “the messy middle.” The average small business spends 40+ hours on a single hire. Recruiters charge 15 to 30 percent of the first-year salary per placement. LinkedIn and Indeed deliver volume, not qualified candidates. HeroHire solves all three problems at once. HeroHire is an autonomous AI agent, not a job board, ATS, or dashboard. Business owners describe the role they need filled. Hero goes to work. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI How HeroHire Works HeroHire operates through a voice-powered interface. Business owners describe their hiring needs and define must-haves. Hero then: Sources candidates across 800+ million profiles from 80+ data sources Screens every applicant against defined role cr...

Executive-led remote workforce solutions designed to help businesses reduce operational burden, improve execution, and scale more efficiently Encore Global Team (EGT), a new remote workforce solutions company, officially launches today with a mission to help small and medium-sized businesses scale more effectively through structured remote hiring, operational support, and remote team integration. Founded by a team of experienced business leaders, Encore Global Team was created in response to the growing challenges SMBs face with rising hiring costs, operational inefficiencies, talent shortages, and increasing administrative burden. EGT provides businesses with carefully vetted remote professionals supported through structured onboarding, workflow alignment, and ongoing performance support. Unlike traditional staffing agencies or freelance marketplaces, Encore Global Team positions itself as a long-term operational partner focused on building resilient, high-performing teams that de...

The dynamics of hiring are shifting fast. After waves of layoffs across industries, many organizations face an overwhelming number of qualified candidates, but no clear way to identify the right ones. More candidates should make hiring easier. But in practice, it often makes it harder. Strong candidates slip through as often as they stand out. To overcome this, hiring managers look to technology to help them. In the past year alone, AI adoption in recruiting jumped from 26% to 53% .  But adoption doesn’t equal impact. Over one-third of organizations still avoid using AI in hiring altogether. If they do use it, most apply it to simpler tasks like filtering resumes and writing job descriptions or interview questions. Those tasks can speed up the process, but don’t necessarily improve it. They don’t address the core challenge most organizations face: how to consistently identify the right candidates and make high-quality hiring decisions. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview...

As organizations move away from relying solely on IT-managed directories, Exclaimer expands its HRIS integration strategy to automate accurate, compliant employee communications Exclaimer , the leading provider of email signature management solutions, announced the launch of its UKG Ready integration, expanding the company’s growing HRIS integration capabilities as organizations increasingly shift employee data ownership from IT-managed directories to HR systems of record. According to SHRM’s 2025 State of the Workplace Report, fewer than half of HR professionals, just 43%, rate their organization’s HR technology as effective, with fragmented, poorly integrated systems cited as a leading barrier. Separate research from HR.com found that 81% of organizations experiencing poor HR system integration say it actively prevents them from achieving key HR goals. As a result, organizations are actively restructuring how employee data flows across their technology stacks, and HR sys...