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When people think about compliance complexity in HR, they might picture a company navigating employment law in a dozen different countries. But the reality for many U.S.-based HR teams is that the complexity starts a lot closer to home. Managing employment compliance across multiple U.S. states is just one of the time-consuming, resource-intensive challenges HR professionals face today – and it’s only getting harder. Paid leave laws, sick time requirements, pay frequency rules and termination notice obligations vary significantly from state to state, change frequently and carry real consequences when mishandled. Not to mention that 2026 has brought a surge in state-specific AI regulations that add a new layer of complexity to traditional labor laws. The administrative burden often forces HR to act as the “policy police.” With the technology available today, the profession is finally able to move past that.The opportunity isn’t just about finishing tasks faster but rather getting...

ClearCo expands Talent AI with the Agent Platform, enabling autonomous HR workflow automation through AI agents managed centrally in Agent Studio. ClearCo today announced the launch of its Agent Platform, a connected suite of purpose-built talent agents embedded directly into the workflows where hiring, performance management, and learning take place. Built on ClearCo’s Unified Talent Platform and extending its Talent AI foundation, the Agent Platform enables organizations to automate actions and orchestrate work across the talent lifecycle, turning administrative burden into strategic capacity at every stage from requisition to review. ClearCo’s Agent Platform represents a shift from systems that store information to systems that help people act — coordinating work, automating recurring tasks, and improving decision-making throughout the talent lifecycle. Unlike conversational AI tools that respond only when prompted by a user, ClearCo’s agents can also be trigg...

The speed and magnitude of change in today’s business environment has never been higher. Industry has reached an inflection point at which many organizations are trying to do more with less and technological advances often allow for that option, yet at the same time, economic and political uncertainty make structural change and investment risky propositions. Making those decisions are company executives, who, not surprisingly, are operating amid some of the highest turnover rates seen at the C-suite level. Companies seeking new leadership frequently get caught between the importance of nailing an executive hire – crucial to both cultural and practical alignment –  the urgency of fulfilling that need and the potential cost of making a mistake. All of this makes hiring the right executive – and bringing them aboard in a timely and efficient fashion – arguably a more critical effort than it has ever been. That’s why hiring at the top needs to evolve to match the change we’re seeing acros...

AI-powered assessments, candidate verification, and workforce intelligence help GCCs hire faster, improve quality, and increase retention with skills alignment. VeriKlick, a leading global provider of AI-driven talent acquisition technology and workforce solutions, today announced a strategic initiative to partner with Global Capability Centers (GCCs) across India to support large-scale hiring through its proprietary candidate evaluation, assessment, and verification platform. As multinational organizations continue expanding their GCC and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) operations, talent acquisition leaders face growing pressure to rapidly fill large numbers of roles while maintaining hiring quality, reducing risk, and improving retention. VeriKlick addresses these challenges by combining AI-powered skills assessments, candidate authentication, workforce analytics, and scalable recruitment support into a single solution designed for enterprise hiring at scale. Unlike tradition...

Announced at PrismHR LIVE 2026, new AI-powered foundation brings automation, insights and decision support across the entire employee lifecycle PrismHR , a Vensure Employer Solutions company and the leading HR technology software innovator for service providers across the U.S., announced Prism Intelligence (Pi) and Prisma at the opening of its annual PrismHR LIVE 2026 conference – introducing a unified, AI-powered foundation that delivers intelligent capabilities across its technology ecosystem to help service providers and employers work smarter, move faster and operate more efficiently. Pi serves as an intelligence layer embedded into the core DNA of PrismHR’s ecosystem, connecting workflows and experiences to transform how work gets done across the entire employee lifecycle. By unifying insights, automation and decision support across key functions, it helps organizations move beyond managing work to optimizing it—boosting productivity, accelerating decisions and simplifying ...

Ashutosh Garg, Co-Founder and CEO, Eightfold AI chats about the evolving standards in HRTech and what’s causing a transformation across most areas of HR in this HRTech Interview: _________ Tell us about yourself and your role at Eighfold.ai ? I’m Ashutosh Garg, CEO and Co-Founder of Eightfold AI. In my role, I lead the company’s vision, strategy, and execution, with a particular focus on how AI and agentic systems are reshaping the future of work and talent decisions at enterprise scale. A large part of my focus today is around what I describe as the “infinite workforce,” a future where humans and autonomous digital workers collaborate together, enabling organizations to operate with greater speed, adaptability, and intelligence while allowing people to focus more on judgment, creativity, and human connection. I started Eightfold because I believed, and still believe, that employment is one of the foundational systems of society, and that people deserve not just a job, but the opp...