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Employers Embrace AI for Benefits — Employees Remain Cautious

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New Prudential study shows employers are far more confident than employees in using artificial intelligence to improve the workplace benefits experience Prudential Financial, Inc. released a new study showing how employer optimism about artificial intelligence in the workplace benefits experience is outpacing employee willingness to use these tools for benefits-related support. The second installment of Prudential’s  2026 Benefits & Beyond study  reveals that more than 8 in 10 employers (83%) are interested in using AI to help workers better understand their benefits, but only 58% of employees say they would use AI for this purpose, and just 24% say they do so today. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI “AI can make benefits simpler, more personalized and easier to use, but employees won’t embrace it unless they trust it,” said Michael Estep, president of Prudential Group Insurance. “That ...
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Acorn Acquires B Online Learning to Close the Gap Between Learning Investment and Workforce Readiness

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Acquisition brings expert-built content and the only accredited Articulate Certified Training Partner in Australia and New Zealand into a single platform, powering development plans as the center of skills evidence Acorn , the skills and development platform, announced the acquisition of B Online Learning, Australia and New Zealand’s leading eLearning design and development provider. The 2026 State of Learning for AI Fluency Report shows that 77% of organizations still treat course completion as proof that skills exist. Mercer research reports that 79% of executives identify better insight into their people’s capabilities as the essential unlock for outsized business performance. As HR and talent leaders face pressure to demonstrate workforce readiness, the chasm between those two findings is where organizations are losing ground. Workforce readiness is not a training completion rate. It is the gap between the skills an organization needs to perform and the skills it can prove i...
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HiBob Brings People Intelligence Into Slackbot to Turn Workforce Insights into Business Action

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New Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration connects Slack users directly to Bob through Slackbot, enabling employees, managers, and HR teams to access trusted people data and take action in the flow of work HiBob , the company behind Bob, the award-winning HCM, payroll, and finance platform, that powers workforce transformation in the age of AI, today announced a new integration with Slack that brings trusted people data and actions from Bob directly into the popular communications platform. The integration combines Slack’s conversational experience with HiBob’s people intelligence, enabling employees, managers, and HR leaders to access information, complete tasks, and take action without leaving Slack. As AI transforms the way work gets done, employees increasingly expect answers and actions to be available in a single interface rather than across multiple systems. MCP enables AI assistants to connect with business applications, bringing together information from acros...
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Indeavor Launches AI Analytics Hub to Turn Frontline Workforce Scheduling and Absence Data Into Real-Time Insights With AI

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Indeavor , a leader in AI-powered shift scheduling for complex 24/7 operations, announced the launch of AI Analytics Hub, a natural language reporting platform that lets users get instant workforce insights using plain English instead of SQL or spreadsheets. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI In high-stakes industries like manufacturing, food and beverage, energy, and nuclear, operations leaders have long relied on manual exports, pivot tables, and IT support to answer critical workforce questions. The AI Analytics Hub eliminates this friction by connecting directly to an organization’s scheduling and absence data and delivering interactive dashboards, reports, and benchmarks. No coding required. “Site leaders, HR, and enterprise leadership finally have the real-time frontline workforce visibility they’ve been missing,” said Brandon Schwarz, CEO of Indeavor. “The AI Analytics Hub allows anyone in t...
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Flip Launches Identity and AI Innovations for Frontline Workers

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New Frontline Identity and Flip Fusion help organizations securely connect frontline employees to enterprise systems, applications and AI-powered workflows Flip , an AI-powered employee experience platform for frontline workers, announced Frontline Identity and Flip Fusion, two new offerings that help organizations securely connect frontline employees to enterprise systems, applications and AI-powered workflows. The company unveiled the new products at Forward 2026, its annual customer conference. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI Flip’s new products expand the platform beyond employee communications, helping organizations provide secure digital identity, enterprise application access and AI-powered workflow automation through a single mobile experience. Flip’s new products expand the platform beyond employee communications, helping organizations provide secure digital identity, ...
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How Lean HR Teams Are Using AI to Manage U.S. Compliance

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When people think about compliance complexity in HR, they might picture a company navigating employment law in a dozen different countries. But the reality for many U.S.-based HR teams is that the complexity starts a lot closer to home. Managing employment compliance across multiple U.S. states is just one of the time-consuming, resource-intensive challenges HR professionals face today – and it’s only getting harder. Paid leave laws, sick time requirements, pay frequency rules and termination notice obligations vary significantly from state to state, change frequently and carry real consequences when mishandled. Not to mention that 2026 has brought a surge in state-specific AI regulations that add a new layer of complexity to traditional labor laws. The administrative burden often forces HR to act as the “policy police.” With the technology available today, the profession is finally able to move past that.The opportunity isn’t just about finishing tasks faster but rather getting...
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ClearCo Unveils Agent Platform for the Talent Lifecycle

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ClearCo expands Talent AI with the Agent Platform, enabling autonomous HR workflow automation through AI agents managed centrally in Agent Studio. ClearCo today announced the launch of its Agent Platform, a connected suite of purpose-built talent agents embedded directly into the workflows where hiring, performance management, and learning take place. Built on ClearCo’s Unified Talent Platform and extending its Talent AI foundation, the Agent Platform enables organizations to automate actions and orchestrate work across the talent lifecycle, turning administrative burden into strategic capacity at every stage from requisition to review. ClearCo’s Agent Platform represents a shift from systems that store information to systems that help people act — coordinating work, automating recurring tasks, and improving decision-making throughout the talent lifecycle. Unlike conversational AI tools that respond only when prompted by a user, ClearCo’s agents can also be trigg...
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