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Enhanced offer gives organizations on leading enterprise WFM platforms a repeatable, scalable, and auditable way to validate WFM configurations as their environments continue to change. TestAssure, a provider of workforce management testing software and services, today announced WFM Regression Testing, an enhanced offer designed to help organizations on leading enterprise WFM platforms reduce ongoing compliance and payroll risk. Going live on a WFM platform is just the beginning. Business policies change, labor rules evolve, new jurisdictions are added, and configuration updates continue long after implementation is complete. For enterprise organizations with large frontline workforces and complex operating environments, each of those changes creates risk. A seemingly small configuration update can affect time calculations, premiums, scheduling, accruals, or downstream payroll outcomes—and without a structured testing process, those issues can go undetected until they’ve alread...

Organizations are under growing pressure to apply AI across core business functions. In payroll, adoption is moving more slowly, not because the value is in question, but because the foundation is not ready. This hesitation carries real business implications in a function that can account for between 40–60% of operating expenses inside large organizations, according to recent UKG and KPMG research. AI only works as well as the environment it operates in. It depends on reliable data, connected systems, and consistent processes. Many payroll environments still lack those conditions, limiting the ability to apply AI with confidence. When the foundation is unstable, layering AI on top doesn’t simplify payroll, it amplifies risk. It introduces new exposure across payroll accuracy, compliance, financial reporting, and employee trust. To move forward, the focus cannot start with AI alone. It must start with strengthening data quality, improving system integration, and clarifying clearer gov...

Analysis of 2,000+ placements finds 84% of Latin American hires were mid-level or senior as U.S. companies reinvest savings into more experienced teams. Hire With Near, a nearshore staffing and recruiting agency that helps U.S. companies hire in Latin America across all departments and industries, released an analysis showing that U.S. companies are using the savings from hiring in Latin America to recruit more experienced talent and build larger teams, not simply to cut costs. Across more than 2,000 placements analyzed in the company’s 2026 State of LatAm Hiring Report, 84% of hires were mid-level or senior, including VP- and C-suite roles. The finding challenges a common assumption that companies hire abroad mainly for inexpensive, junior or short-term labor. Hire With Near’s data shows the opposite. U.S. companies save an average of $35,000 to $64,000 per hire, or 30% to 70% depending on role and seniority, and many reinvest those savings into the kind of experience an...

Cyndra helps companies and agencies launch AI employees that learn internal processes, connect to 1,000+ tools, and complete repeatable work with approvals, memory, audit logs, and human oversight. Cyndra AI announced the launch of its AI employee platform, built for companies that want AI to do more than answer questions. Cyndra lets businesses create role-based AI workers that learn company processes, communicate through workplace chat tools, connect to business apps, and complete repeatable operational tasks with the level of human approval the company chooses. The company built Cyndra around a frustration it kept hearing from operators: AI demos look impressive, but most tools still leave the work sitting on someone’s desk. Chatbots can answer questions. Traditional automations can move data from one field to another. But many business workflows need something more flexible – an agent that understands the process, uses the right tools, remembers context, and knows when to ...

Rising identity fraud, AI adoption, and workforce trust concerns reshape hiring and background screening priorities worldwide HireRight , a leading provider of global background screening services and workforce management solutions, announced the release of its 2026 Global Benchmark Report. This year’s comprehensive report identifies regional and global trends in background screening, talent acquisition, and workforce management, based on the survey responses of more than 1,900 human resource, risk, and talent acquisition professionals worldwide, collected between Feb. 18 and March 6, 2026. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI “As organizations navigate rapid advances in AI, and increasing workforce fraud risks, the findings in HireRight’s 2026 Global Benchmark Report provide valuable insight into how employers around the world are adapting their screening strategies” Among this year’s su...

Setting a new industry standard, Paige gives recruiters and hiring managers citation-backed answers across pipelines, applications, and history from a single query PageUp , a global leader in talent acquisition software, announced the general availability of Paige, its AI-powered talent acquisition agentic assistant. Unlike other agentic solutions on the market, Paige serves as the single assistant for every use case in the hiring process, eliminating the need for recruiters and hiring managers to juggle multiple tools or pay for additional agents. Embedded directly into PageUp’s award-winning talent acquisition suite, Paige can review candidate pipelines, analyze applicant information, monitor progress and more through its simple conversational interface. In early customer pilots, Paige helped recruiting teams cut their average time-to-shortlist by up to 75%, freeing recruiters to spend that time on engaging with candidates rather than searching across systems. Paige has also receiv...