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Paychex Expands WISE to Deliver Workforce Intelligence Across Business Tools

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With Microsoft 365 as its first ecosystem, WISE brings insights, guidance, and actions into the tools businesses already use WISE extends Paychex’s workforce intelligence beyond HCM software into collaboration and productivity tools Microsoft 365 is the first ecosystem in Paychex’s broader channel expansion strategy, with WISE now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams The platform is designed to help Paychex and its partners expand HCM capabilities across digital workflows Paychex , a leading provider of expert-enabled HR, payroll, and benefits, announced that WISE (Workforce Intelligence Strengthened by Expertise), the company’s AI-powered intelligence engine, is now available within Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams, expanding the company’s broader channel-agnostic ecosystem strategy. WISE is designed to bring trusted workforce insights, guidance, and actions directly into the tools businesses and employees already use every day. Built to operate across Paychex’s HC...

Multiplier Challenges Opaque World of Global Hiring by Fully Publishing Transparent Pricing Model

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As the Global Exchange for Work, Multiplier eliminates hidden FX markups, surcharges, and surprise onboarding fees that often plague today’s global employers Multiplier , the Global Exchange for Work, announced the public unveiling of its transparent pricing model for Employer of Record (EOR) services. By publishing its complete pricing structure directly on its website, Multiplier furthers itself as a category leader by offering buyers complete cost predictability. For years, the EOR industry has operated under an opaque status quo where quoted headline rates quickly balloon due to unmentioned compliance surcharges, unexpected onboarding and termination fees. This lack of transparency leaves finance leaders, HR ops teams, and founders left with sticker shock and unable to accurately forecast global hiring bills, stalling critical cross-border growth. Multiplier is addressing this category-wide problem directly by putting real, structured pricing out in the open. Simplifying th...

The Standard Expands Pooled Employer Plan Capabilities with New 403(b) PEP for Nonprofit Organizations

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Standard Insurance Company (The Standard) announced the expansion of its pooled employer plan (PEP) capabilities with the introduction of an ERISA 403(b) PEP for nonprofit organizations. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ “Nonprofit employers often face greater time, staffing and resource constraints than private-sector organizations, and the pressure to manage benefits costs continues to grow,” said Steve Chappell, AVP of Retirement Plan sales at The Standard. With the launch of the new PEP, The Standard extends its 401(k) PEP leadership and expertise into the 403(b) market, giving nonprofit employers a pooled plan option that can help expand retirement plan access to this underserved sector. “Nonprofit employers often face greater time, staffing and resource constraints than private-sector organizations, and the pressure to manage benefits costs continues to grow,” said Steve Chappell, assistant vice president of Ret...

AI Hiring Audit Trails: Why HR Teams Need Evidence for Every Automated Screening Decision

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AI hiring tools require proper paperwork as screening decisions affect opportunity, reputation, and compliance exposure. A ranked shortlist, rejected profile, or automated score can shape who gets seen by a recruiter. That makes AI hiring audit trails a core HR control, not a back-office record. You need evidence that shows which data shaped each recommendation, how humans reviewed it, and why the final decision made sense. Hiring AI needs evidence at every step. Why should AI hiring audit trails become part of every automated screening workflow? AI hiring audit trails help HR teams explain how an automated screening result was created. They integrate candidate data, job criteria, model output, and human review into a single decision record. This matters because hiring decisions need more than efficiency. You must know whether the tool used relevant job information, whether recruiters followed review rules, and whether candidate outcomes show unfair patterns. Without that record, H...

The Black Hole of Hiring: Study Reveals 50% of Job Seekers Receive Automated Rejections Without a Word from Recruiters

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New data reveals 50% of job seekers face silent rejections, while over 80% encounter an AI disclosure void that fuels widespread hiring mistrust. A study from Enhancv, a global leader in AI-powered career tools, exposes a profound trust gap on the receiving end of modern hiring technology. According to a survey of 1,066 U.S. job seekers, automated recruitment tools are leaving candidates in the dark, with 50.5% of applicants receiving at least one job rejection in the past year without a single word of explanation or feedback from a human recruiter. When half of all job seekers are rejected without human contact, and over 80% have no idea if a person or an algorithm read their resume, trust in the hiring system breaks down completely.” — Volen Vulkov, Co-Founder of Enhancv The findings highlight a fundamental disconnect between corporate automation and candidate trust. While employers adopt artificial intelligence tools to handle mounting applicant volumes, job seekers are incre...

LaborIQ® Software Announces Next-Generation Compensation Analytics Solution

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Platform Expands Their HR Tech Software Arsenal, Assisting Organizations with Real-Time Views of Pay Alignment, Retention Risks, and Budget Impacts LaborIQ , announced the launch of  Pay Analysis , an expansion to the company’s compensation solution portfolio, and designed to help organizations with defensible pay strategies and complete pay visibility. Built for HR teams and business leaders, LaborIQ’s Pay Analysis combines internal workforce pay data with LaborIQ’s compensation benchmarks to provide a centralized view of how employees, departments, locations, and their pay, align to market and to organizational compensation strategy. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ The launch reflects growing pressure on organizations to make budget-minded, fair, and more defensible compensation decisions amid ongoing labor market volatility. “Compensation is strategic and has become more complex in recent ye...

Serval Launches Program to Transform Employees Into Future Founders

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Serval Start Challenges Traditional Career Paths and Retention Strategies for Startups Serval , the employee service management company built for the AI era, closed its recruitment for the first cohort of Serval Start. The first-of-its-kind program, built to identify, develop, and back the next generation of artificial intelligence-native founders, secured its first cohort of 12 from over 500 applications. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ As AI uproots what a typical career path looks like, traditional, pre-defined roles are breaking down. Serval Start introduces a new talent model that recruits high-potential technical builders, embeds them within a fast-scaling company, and equips them with the network, capital exposure, and hands-on knowledge to launch their own companies in the future. Rather than treating aspiring founders as a retention risk, Serval is betting that the most sustainable way to attract exception...