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LumApps Launches the AI Employee Hub to Accelerate AI Adoption

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LumApps AI is the new AI Employee Hub where people and agents work together, turning AI investment into everyday adoption LumApps announced the launch of LumApps AI, the AI Employee Hub, designed to bring AI to every employee across businesses and industries. LumApps AI delivers a complete portfolio of new employee services and agents that cover everyday business tasks and workflows, giving every organization a clear path from AI investment to workforce-wide adoption. The new AI Employee Hub allows end-to-end discovery, creation and orchestration of the digital workforce across any system and agent. Tackling the AI Adoption Challenge Organizations face a massive AI adoption problem today. AI is being added to tools, but the technology is not designed for the people using them. For many organizations, AI access has expanded faster than true adoption, particularly among frontline employees who remain largely excluded from AI initiatives altogether. Worldwide AI spending will hit $2.5...

Appcast Recognized as a Strategic Challenger in the 2026 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Talent Acquisition

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Europe’s leading HR industry analyst recognizes Appcast’s sustained innovation, programmatic technology leadership, and growing enterprise impact across the region Appcast , the global leader in recruitment media and technology, has been recognized as a Strategic Challenger in the 2026 Fosway 9-Grid for Talent Acquisition. This recognition marks the fourth consecutive year that Appcast has been featured on the grid, highlighting its consistency in driving measurable hiring outcomes for complex, enterprise-scale organizations. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI “We are incredibly proud to be named a Strategic Challenger and to be recognized by Fosway Group for the fourth year running.” – Roy Jacques, Managing Director for U.K. and EMEA at Appcast The Fosway 9-Grid is a prominent five-dimensional market analysis model designed to understand the relative position of solutions...

Sability Expands HCM Transformation Capabilities Through Partnership with AI-Native Platform, Darwinbox

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Sability and Darwinbox announce strategic partnership to help organizations navigate the next generation of HCM transformation. Sability, a leading provider of strategic, functional, and technical human capital management (HCM) and workforce management (WFM) services, announced an official partnership with Darwinbox, a global, modern, AI-native HCM platform designed to support organizations through next-generation intelligence and configurable HR capabilities. Together, the organizations will deliver a differentiated approach to high-impact HCM transformations by combining smart technology with proven strategy, governance, and adoption frameworks. For more than 30 years, Sability has helped organizations navigate the evolving HCM landscape through comprehensive, white-glove consulting services. The Darwinbox partnership reflects Sability’s continued commitment to aligning with forward-looking technology providers and expanding its ability to support clients across a broader eco...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...