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Vera Advances AI ROI Measurement With Evidence-Based Workforce Intelligence

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Vera is incorporating a proprietary approach that connects workforce adoption, capability, behavior and capacity to organizational performance. As organizations increase investment in artificial intelligence, Vera is advancing a new approach to AI ROI measurement designed to reveal a critical source of intelligence often missing from traditional financial, technology and utilization metrics: what is actually happening within the workforce. A key factor to successful AI adaptation and subsequent financial outcomes is the workforce’s availability to upskill and absorb changes with new technology workflows, changing how work is done.” — Dr. Ghazaleh Samandari In response to industry reports that workforce adoption remains a critical hurdle to AI ROI, Vera announced today that its evidence-based methodology is already being incorporated into its advisory and workforce intelligence work to help organizations measure and remediate the workforce conditions that determine whether AI inve...

UKG Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for HCM

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Key Points: UKG placed as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner ®  Magic Quadrant for HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises. UKG brings AI-powered workforce intelligence into the flow of work to help HR leaders make faster, more informed decisions for their frontline employees. UKG helps organizations turn frontline workforce operations into a competitive advantage by connecting workforce strategy to execution. UKG , the AI-first Workforce Operating Platform for HR, payroll, and workforce management, has been named a Leader in the  2026 Gartner ®  Magic Quadrant for HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises  for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ More than 80,000 organizations in 150+ countries rely on the UKG  Workforce Operating Platform  to run their workforce. For CHROs, the platform provides the foundation to align HCM strategy with the realities of fro...

Skills Graph HRtech: Mapping the Hidden Capabilities Inside the Workforce

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For years, organisations have known what their workforce can do based on resumes, job titles, degrees, certifications, performance records, and HR databases. These systems are still useful for managing employees, defining roles and documenting professional backgrounds, but they offer only a partial view of organisational capability. A resume summarises experience; a job title may reflect an employee’s formal responsibility. Neither of them reflects the full range of skills that a person has developed or can apply in a different context. Or, an employee in marketing may have data analysis, project management, customer research, or automation skills that are not part of their formal role. As organisations move from job-based to skill-based workforce management, the importance of this limitation is growing. As roles change at a faster pace, technology is transforming work and new business needs are often created before formal job descriptions are updated, organisations need to get a bett...

Kahuna Workforce Solutions Announces Strategic Partnership with Oracle to Connect Core HR Operations with Frontline Execution

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The seamless integration bridges the gap between corporate HR and on-the-ground operations, equipping regulated industries with real-time competency tracking to drive compliance, safety, and productivity Kahuna Workforce Solutions, a leading frontline workforce readiness platform trusted by enterprise organizations, today announced a strategic partnership with Oracle to bridge the gap between core human resources and daily operational execution. By integrating Kahuna’s validated skills and competency management platform to Oracle Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM), enterprises can now leverage a unified, skills-forward HRIS ecosystem that aligns corporate talent strategy with actual on-the-job capabilities. As highly regulated industries face widening skills gaps and increasing compliance pressures, traditional HRIS platforms often struggle to capture the granular, day-to-day capabilities of frontline staff. This collaboration introduces an integration that feeds Kahuna’s dyn...

Defusing the Compliance Time Bomb: Why the Global Talent Rush Needs a Unified Infrastructure

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For decades, the traditional model of accessing elite, specialized talent required uprooting professionals from their home countries and moving them to localized tech hubs, such as the United States. Today, we are witnessing a fundamental shift to global hiring; instead of relocating talent across borders, enterprises are increasingly hiring employees directly in their home countries. This transition represents a massive economic shift, with data from Multiplier’s Global Hiring Report revealing that $200 billion in employer-originated wages cross international borders every year. Region-specific talent corridors have emerged as dominant forces in this newly distributed workforce. Trends in the space indicate that the Philippines alone now accounts for nearly a quarter of all global placements (24.77%). Additionally, North American markets like Canada represent 13.42% of this workforce, and India continues to prove a massive AI hub, capturing 14.15% of all global placements. A growing...

HiBob Secures Investment to Fuel AI-powered Enterprise Built on Trusted Workforce Context

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Salesforce leads the investment, reinforcing HiBob’s vision that the future of work will be powered by Organizational Intelligence HiBob, the company behind the people management platform Bob, today announced an investment led by Salesforce with additional participation from Farallon. This marks a key milestone in HiBob’s evolution from a modern HR platform into an organizational intelligence layer for modern businesses. The investment reflects a shared belief that trusted workforce data and organizational context will become critical infrastructure for the AI-powered enterprise. As AI agents and agentic workflows become embedded across the business, companies will need a trusted understanding of their people, roles, skills, teams, permissions, incentives, managers, and organizational structure. AI can surface insights, automate tasks, and accelerate decisions  but leaders can only act with confidence when those recommendations are grounded in the real context of how their orga...

ICIMS Debuts Its Vision for the Future of Hiring: The Intelligent Hiring Platform

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Company advances its ATS for the AI era and delivers new Hiring and Interview Scheduling Agents to Improve Hiring Speed and Experience ICIMS to showcase its latest AI innovations at HR Tech Conference 2026, Booth #5933, and UNLEASH World, Booth #420 ICIMS , a leading enterprise talent acquisition platform, unveiled its vision for the ICIMS Intelligent Hiring Platform, a new strategic direction built on more than two decades of proprietary hiring data, workflows and expertise, designed to power connected hiring experiences today and become the world’s most trusted infrastructure for the future of hiring. As part of this evolution, ICIMS today announced two new AI agents designed to put its hiring signals and context to work for hiring teams: the ICIMS Hiring Agent and the ICIMS Interview Scheduling Agent. Together with the ICIMS Sourcing Agent, available today, these AI agents bring the vision of the ICIMS Intelligent Hiring Platform to life, combining trusted intelligence with a...