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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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TalentLMS Learning Debt Report: AI Use May Be Masking Skill Gaps

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59% of employees use AI tools at least sometimes to complete tasks they were not trained to do. TalentLMS , a leading employee training platform, released its new Learning Debt Report. With 41% of employees saying their role has evolved faster than their company’s ability to train them, many are relying on AI tools and workarounds to cover skill gaps, while staying quiet about what they don’t know. As a result, Learning Debt — the growing backlog of learning that accumulates when work evolves faster than employee training and learning can happen — builds underneath. Over time, it shows up in preventable mistakes, lower-quality work, and weaker performance. AI Gets the Work Done Without Building the Skill AI is helping employees stay productive, but it may also be concealing the skills they still need to develop: 59% of employees report using AI tools at least sometimes to complete tasks they were not trained to do. 37% say AI tools have made them appear more competent...
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New Hire With Near Data: JavaScript, SQL, and Python Lead the Skills U.S. Companies Hire Developers for in Latin America

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An analysis of more than 2,000 job postings reveals what U.S. companies screen for when they build engineering teams in the region. Hire With Near, a staffing and recruiting firm that helps U.S. companies hire remote talent in Latin America, today shared new data on the technical skills those companies request most when hiring developers in Latin America. Across the developer and engineering roles in an analysis of 2,100 job postings from June 2025 to June 2026, JavaScript, SQL, and Python were the most-requested skills. JavaScript and SQL topped the list, each appearing in about a quarter of developer roles in the first half of 2026. The JavaScript figure counts its common frameworks too, including React, Vue, and Angular. Python followed at about 19%, with cloud skills led by AWS at 15%. The mix points to what U.S. companies are building in the region: product and application teams that handle the front end, the database, and deployment, not narrow single-skill roles. SQL was the...
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The Institutes Named Philadelphia Top Workplace for 11th Time

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The Institutes, a not-for-profit dedicated to helping individuals and organizations succeed in the essential disciplines of risk management and insurance, once again earn regional recognition for their positive and engaging workplace culture, as named by  The Philadelphia Inquirer . Amid an ever-evolving business landscape, there’s one thing The Institutes  always hold steady: their people-first culture shaped by those who live it every day. That commitment has earned the risk management and insurance education, information, and resource leader a 2026 Philadelphia Top Workplaces award from  The Philadelphia Inquirer . Not only is this the 11th time The Institutes were named a Top Workplace among Philadelphia-area companies, it’s also their sixth consecutive year earning this honor, on top of winning a national workplace award earlier this year. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI “A recogn...
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