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StarSpark AI Reinvents Personalized Learning With Integrated Lectures, Practice and Feedback

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Updated platform brings together AI-built instruction, lecture-style interactive lessons, adaptive practice, active intervention, parent visibility and teacher-ready lesson generation StarSpark , an AI-powered learning platform for students, parents and educators, announced the launch of its connected, adaptive learning system, a major step in the company’s mission to make high-quality, personalized learning easier for all users. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI “Our differentiator isn’t the content; it’s the teaching,” said Bansal. “We don’t wait for a student to ask for help. When they get something wrong twice or start guessing, we step in with a real teaching moment, not a hint.” The system pairs purpose-built AI instruction with personalized practice, helping students learn new concepts, get instant support when they struggle, master material and review over time. Parents can stay inf...
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Payroll Influences Announces Launch of 2026 Payroll Profession Confidence Index Survey

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Now in its third year, the global research initiative expands its focus on professional sentiment, business relationships, strategic value, and AI readiness Payroll Influences, the independent HR and payroll technology research and advisory firm founded by industry analyst Pete A. Tiliakos, today announced the launch of its  2026 Payroll Profession Confidence Index  (PPCI) survey. The third annual edition of this unique global research initiative focuses on measuring the confidence, sentiment, relationships, value impact, and eminence of the payroll profession. Initially published in 2024, the PPCI was created to amplify the collective voice of payroll professionals and to raise awareness for the critical role payroll plays in business performance, workforce trust, compliance, and organizational agility. The 2025 PPCI report expanded its global engagement, gathering perspectives and sentiment from payroll professionals and stakeholders across more than 30 countries and five continen...
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How Sabbaticals Make Your Whole Team Stronger

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When most companies think about sabbaticals, they think about the employee taking them — the individual who steps away, recharges, and returns with fresh energy. For people leaders who have built programs across high-growth tech startups and large-scale enterprises, the bigger story is what happens to the team left behind and how that dynamic shapes the entire organization for the better. A significant part of making sabbaticals work seamlessly falls on managers. Sabbaticals are not just a retention perk or a mental health benefit. When they are designed and supported, they are one of the most effective tools a company has for building stronger systems, healthier cultures, and more resilient teams at every level of the organization. Still, only 5% of U.S. companies offer formal paid sabbaticals, per SHRM’s Employee Benefits Report . Rest as a Team Investment, Not Just a Personal One One of the less obvious benefits of a sabbatical program is what it does to knowledge distribution ac...
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TrueBlue Survey Finds Experienced Workers Are Driving New Interest in Skilled Trades

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As construction season ramps up, findings show growing interest in skilled trades among temporary workers with seasoned talent leading the way As construction season accelerates and employers continue to compete for skilled talent, new TrueBlue survey findings show growing interest in skilled trades among temporary workers, while also pointing to the need for clearer, more affordable pathways into these careers. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI According to a recent survey of more than 1,200 TrueBlue temporary workers, nearly half of those responding to questions about skilled trades (48%) report greater interest compared to previous years, including 32% who say they are much more interested. That interest is broad-based but concentrated among experienced workers: more than four in five of those expressing greater interest were between the ages of 30 and 59, pointing to an opportunity to r...
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HRTech Is Re-building the Intelligent Enterprise from the Inside Out

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Enterprise intelligence has been a long-standing goal of organizations through financial reporting, operational analytics and customer insight. These areas are still important to business success, but they don’t paint the whole picture of how well an organization is doing anymore. In an AI-powered economy, companies are finding their people to be among the most precious and agile sources of intelligence. Employees create knowledge, solve problems, collaborate across functions, continuously innovate, and adapt to evolving market conditions. This is why HRTech is moving past its administrative role to become the core of enterprise intelligence. Today, organizations are no longer simply asking how technology can improve workforce management, but rather, how workforce intelligence can influence business strategy. Every interaction, skill, project, learning activity, and collaboration provides valuable information that helps leaders understand how the organization is performing from t...
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Frontline Workers Don’t Want AI Out of Hiring. They Want It Out in the Open.

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New survey of 1,014 U.S. frontline workers finds only 1 in 4 oppose AI in the hiring process Frontline workers aren’t asking companies to abandon artificial intelligence in hiring. They’re asking them to stop pretending they’re not using it. Just one in four oppose AI in the hiring process. Nearly three in four say how a company explains its AI use directly shapes their trust. And over three-fifths of those who applied for jobs in the past year have been ghosted after multiple rounds of interviews. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI “This survey confirms something we’ve long thought at Fountain. Frontline workers want respect and honesty. They know AI is part of the process. They’re asking to be kept in the loop,” Fountain CEO Sean Behr said. Fountain , the AI-native platform for managing the global frontline workforce, commissioned Propeller Insights to survey 1,014 U...
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HRTech Interview with Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ

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Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ chats about the fundamentals of building AI first organizations in this catch up with HRTech Series: ______ Let’s talk about reskilling employees for AI-augmented workplaces , some proven practices that work? This is the fastest and most widespread reskilling of the workforce many of us have witnessed in our careers. What a privilege it is to be an HR leader in this historical moment in time. Organizations evolving well are not viewing reskilling and AI adoption as a project with a start and end date. It is tempting to be impressed by the initial organizational step change from ‘no AI’ to ‘using AI’. But that is just a first step onto a staircase that currently has no upper end in sight. Creating environments for continuous learning is the new competitive advantage. Organizations that are navigating employee reskilling well are building continuous learning into the flow of work, recognizing that workforce development can no longer be se...
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