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The Hartford To Acquire Equitable’s Employee Benefits Business

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Acquisition will accelerate The Hartford’s growth in its Priority Business segment focused on small and midsize employers Transaction includes Equitable’s Employee Benefits technology and approximately $500 million in premium The Hartford  has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Equitable’s 1  Employee Benefits business, which focuses on providing small and midsize employers with flexible, non-medical benefits. The acquisition, which accelerates The Hartford’s Employee Benefits growth strategy, represents approximately $500 million in premium, and is expected to close in the fourth quarter, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ “This acquisition reinforces The Hartford’s leadership in employee benefits and small business,” said The Hartford’s Chairman and CEO Christopher Swift. “Small and midsize employers represent a strategic grow...
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AbsenceSoft Introduces Payroll Calculations to Simplify Pay Management for Leaves

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New capability reduces errors, reconciliation time, and risk for teams calculating leave pay AbsenceSoft , a leading provider of leave and accommodations management SaaS solutions, announced Payroll Calculations, a platform module that connects leave administrators and payroll teams by bringing pay calculations into the same system used to manage employee leave. A single employee’s leave can trigger three, four, or five overlapping policies at once, each with a different pay percentage, salary cap, and eligibility window. Yet many HRIS platforms don’t handle these calculations, leaving organizations to rely on spreadsheets, manual handoffs, and institutional knowledge. Nationally, many HR teams continue to manage leave-related compliance manually with spreadsheets, according to AbsenceSoft’s 2026 State of Leave and Accommodations Report. Reliance on manual processes not only creates compliance exposure from overpayments or underpayments but a miscalculated or delayed...
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Four Skills That AI Can’t Replicate (And How People Leaders Should Be Developing Them)

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Professional services organizations, such as consulting firms, technology services companies, tax and audit firms, have always competed on the quality of their thinking. That calculus is shifting. In other industries like manufacturing or hospitality, AI automates tasks that support the product. In professional services, AI is encroaching on the product itself: the expertise, the analysis, the recommendations that clients pay for. That’s what makes the human skills question so pressing for this industry specifically. The World Economic Forum’s 2025 Future of Jobs Report   estimates that 39% of existing skills will be transformed or outdated by 2030, with AI leading the change. Services organizations feel that sooner and more acutely than most. HR can’t slow that down. But HR can shape who’s ready for it. The question I keep returning to in my own role is what we need to deliberately build in people, now, so that our organizations grow stronger as AI absorbs mo...
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Paychex Expands WISE to Deliver Workforce Intelligence Across Business Tools

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With Microsoft 365 as its first ecosystem, WISE brings insights, guidance, and actions into the tools businesses already use WISE extends Paychex’s workforce intelligence beyond HCM software into collaboration and productivity tools Microsoft 365 is the first ecosystem in Paychex’s broader channel expansion strategy, with WISE now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams The platform is designed to help Paychex and its partners expand HCM capabilities across digital workflows Paychex , a leading provider of expert-enabled HR, payroll, and benefits, announced that WISE (Workforce Intelligence Strengthened by Expertise), the company’s AI-powered intelligence engine, is now available within Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams, expanding the company’s broader channel-agnostic ecosystem strategy. WISE is designed to bring trusted workforce insights, guidance, and actions directly into the tools businesses and employees already use every day. Built to operate across Paychex’s HC...
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Multiplier Challenges Opaque World of Global Hiring by Fully Publishing Transparent Pricing Model

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As the Global Exchange for Work, Multiplier eliminates hidden FX markups, surcharges, and surprise onboarding fees that often plague today’s global employers Multiplier , the Global Exchange for Work, announced the public unveiling of its transparent pricing model for Employer of Record (EOR) services. By publishing its complete pricing structure directly on its website, Multiplier furthers itself as a category leader by offering buyers complete cost predictability. For years, the EOR industry has operated under an opaque status quo where quoted headline rates quickly balloon due to unmentioned compliance surcharges, unexpected onboarding and termination fees. This lack of transparency leaves finance leaders, HR ops teams, and founders left with sticker shock and unable to accurately forecast global hiring bills, stalling critical cross-border growth. Multiplier is addressing this category-wide problem directly by putting real, structured pricing out in the open. Simplifying th...
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The Standard Expands Pooled Employer Plan Capabilities with New 403(b) PEP for Nonprofit Organizations

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Standard Insurance Company (The Standard) announced the expansion of its pooled employer plan (PEP) capabilities with the introduction of an ERISA 403(b) PEP for nonprofit organizations. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ “Nonprofit employers often face greater time, staffing and resource constraints than private-sector organizations, and the pressure to manage benefits costs continues to grow,” said Steve Chappell, AVP of Retirement Plan sales at The Standard. With the launch of the new PEP, The Standard extends its 401(k) PEP leadership and expertise into the 403(b) market, giving nonprofit employers a pooled plan option that can help expand retirement plan access to this underserved sector. “Nonprofit employers often face greater time, staffing and resource constraints than private-sector organizations, and the pressure to manage benefits costs continues to grow,” said Steve Chappell, assistant vice president of Ret...
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AI Hiring Audit Trails: Why HR Teams Need Evidence for Every Automated Screening Decision

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AI hiring tools require proper paperwork as screening decisions affect opportunity, reputation, and compliance exposure. A ranked shortlist, rejected profile, or automated score can shape who gets seen by a recruiter. That makes AI hiring audit trails a core HR control, not a back-office record. You need evidence that shows which data shaped each recommendation, how humans reviewed it, and why the final decision made sense. Hiring AI needs evidence at every step. Why should AI hiring audit trails become part of every automated screening workflow? AI hiring audit trails help HR teams explain how an automated screening result was created. They integrate candidate data, job criteria, model output, and human review into a single decision record. This matters because hiring decisions need more than efficiency. You must know whether the tool used relevant job information, whether recruiters followed review rules, and whether candidate outcomes show unfair patterns. Without that record, H...
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