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Emapta Named a Top Asian Inspiring Workplace for 2026

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The global dedicated staffing leader is recognized for its people-first culture, employee experience and commitment to building AI-ready global teams Emapta, a global leader in offshore AI-ready dedicated staffing and workforce advisory services, announced it has been named one of the 2026 Top 15 Asian Inspiring Workplaces by Inspiring Workplaces Group. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI The Inspiring Workplaces Awards recognize organizations that create cultures where people feel valued, included, and empowered to thrive. Winners are evaluated through a rigorous submission and independent judging process across six key elements: culture and purpose, leadership, wellbeing, inclusion and belonging, employee voice and employee experience. Emapta was recognized for its commitment to building a people-first culture that supports employee experience, business performance and long-term workforce r...
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AI-Mediated Negotiations: Balancing the Power Dynamic in Salary Discussions

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Employees are entering salary conversations with their own negotiation AI, salary benchmarks, role-play scripts, and counteroffer logic. This changes the room because candidates now arrive with stronger preparation, sharper language, and a clearer sense of market value. For employers, AI Salary Negotiation is no longer a worker-side trend to ignore. It is becoming a compensation governance issue, in which pay ranges, internal equity, market data, manager training, and offer decisions must hold up to greater employee scrutiny. What is driving worker-facing negotiation assistants? Employees use AI because salary conversations often feel uneven. The employer has pay bands, market surveys, budget context, and negotiation practice, while many workers enter the discussion with less information. AI tools can role-play difficult conversations, draft counteroffers, compare market signals, and help employees explain their value. Recent reporting shows job seekers use AI role-play for salary ...
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Ayar Labs Appoints Sejal Patel Daswani as Chief People and Operations Officer

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High impact operations, people, and innovation executive joins team to scale company globally, build foundation for long-term growth Ayar Labs, the leader in co-packaged optics (CPO) solutions for AI scale-up, announced the appointment of Sejal Patel Daswani as Chief People and Operations Officer. In this newly created role, Daswani will oversee Ayar Labs’ people strategy as well as operations as the company continues to expand globally and advance its technology to meet hyperscaler deployment requirements. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI Daswani brings more than 20 years of leadership experience across people, operations and corporate innovation in the technology, cleantech and software industries. She has led large-scale global growth initiatives, built high-performing teams and supported companies through major operational inflection points. At Ayar Labs, Daswani will focus on buildin...
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Greenhouse Launches New AI Capabilities Built to Strengthen Structured Hiring, Not Shortcut It

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Six new features span role setup, interview note-taking, candidate insights, analytics, and the Greenhouse MCP, built to reduce manual work, sharpen signal, and keep humans in control of every hiring decision Greenhouse , the leading hiring platform, announced a new wave of AI capabilities rolling out across the hiring workflow this summer. The release spans six features covering role setup, interview note-taking, candidate insights, analytics, and the Greenhouse MCP, each built to reduce manual work and sharpen the signal hiring teams use to make decisions. AI has changed what hiring teams are up against. Applications are up 412% since 2023, while open roles have stayed roughly flat. Resumes are polished into sameness, interview answers are rehearsed, and pipelines are crowded with candidates who look right on paper but aren’t in reality. Hiring teams are expected to make confident, defensible decisions quickly, yet the tools meant to support those decisions have not kept up. N...
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Halfpricesoft.com’s ezPaycheck Simplifies Qualified Tips & Overtime for service industries

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Affordable payroll software helps service-industry employers accurately manage qualified tips, overtime, and tax reporting with ease. Halfpricesoft.com empowers service-based businesses, including restaurants, hotels, salons, and spas with the newest 2026 ezPaycheck Payroll software. This application will eliminate challenges, particularly when managing tipped employees and intricate overtime calculations. Dr. Ge, Founder of Halfpricesoft.com, stated, “Payroll for tipped employees can become complicated for business owners. ezPaycheck gives service industry businesses a practical payroll solution that helps simplify qualified tip reporting and overtime calculations.” ezPaycheck continues to provide unlimited payroll processing for multiple businesses at one affordable flat rate, making it a suitable choice for accountants, hospitality businesses, and growing service companies. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: F...
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15Five Launches New AI Capabilities that Facilitate a Continuous Performance Management Feedback Loop

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Latest features help managers, HR leaders and executives have personalized, timely conversations that advance employee growth and increase operational efficiency 15Five , the AI-powered performance management platform used by over 3,000 companies, debuted several AI capabilities during its NEXT virtual summit for HR leaders and people managers focused on where work is headed. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI “15Five AI reduces administrative busywork so leaders can focus on what matters most—supporting and developing their people.” Performance management has not kept up as AI changes how we work. 15Five’s Vice Chairman David Hassell recently spoke about this at the Fortune Workplace Innovation Summit, a topic that resonated deeply with the executives, CHROs and technologists in attendance. Managers are overwhelmed by fragmented information spanning disconnected platforms. HR leaders a...
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Who’s Learning AI, Who Isn’t, and What That Means for Workforce Strategy

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As a labor economist, I spend a lot of time staring at data. Unemployment claims, job postings, quit rates. But there’s a quieter data stream I also think is very important: who’s learning what, and how fast. I think of learning as change in motion. When workers enroll in a specific education discipline at scale, they’re telling you something about where the workforce is headed. Think: who’s preparing, who’s responding, and who is at risk of falling behind. I report on this through the Guild Workforce Signal, drawing on employer-sponsored education enrollment data across some of the country’s largest employers, including Chipotle, Target, Walgreens, JPMorgan Chase, Hilton, Spectrum, PepsiCo, and Tyson. The AI learning signal right now is striking: Guild data shows that enrollment in AI and machine learning curriculum has grown from 1.7% to 4.5% to 10.9% over just two years, surpassing non-AI data and analytics disciplines. It won’t surprise you tha...
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