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Employee retention has reached a definitive tipping point. In a 2026 market shaped by ongoing cost-of-living pressures and tighter business margins, the conversation around work has shifted beyond salary alone, with employees placing increasing weight on the overall value and benefits that their employer provides. These heightened talent war indicators have placed retention strategies under a microscope, moving them from the HR back-office to the center of boardroom strategy. Perks are no longer optional “extras” in contract negotiations; they have become essential hiring tools that provide a tangible buffer against rising costs. This shift has solidified a new workplace strategy among UK professionals: “benefitsmaxxing.” That is, extracting the maximum real-world value from an employment contract. The Shift in Worker Sentiment The traditional transactional relationship between employer and employee where time is simply traded for a set amount of currency is eroding. We are entering ...

Survey of more than 4,200 public sector professionals finds agencies are using AI for data analysis, communications and workflow automation, while many still lack formal policies and employee training Public sector HR teams are facing a new operating reality defined by workforce shortages, limited resources, growing workload demands and rapid technology change. Many agencies are no longer treating these constraints as temporary disruptions, but as ongoing conditions they must plan around with AI playing a major, but not yet perfected, role. Public sector HR employees are increasingly turning attention toward technology as a potential source of relief in the face of persistent workforce challenges, but many agencies lack the policies, training, and organizational alignment needed to scale these efforts effectively. These findings and more were released today in a new research report from  NEOGOV , a workforce management platform purpose-built for the public sector. NEOGOV’s  2...

TrueBlue’s PeopleReady survey of 1,200+ temporary workers also highlights openness to AI in job search TrueBlue , a leading provider of specialized workforce solutions, announced new survey findings from its flagship PeopleReady brand, revealing that temporary workers continue to value transparency, human guidance, and fast pay, while being open to technology-enabled tools that speed up and improve job matching. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI The findings, from People Pulse – Spring 2026, a nationwide survey of more than 1,200 temporary workers, explore how workforce balances emerging technology with traditional staffing support. Results show temporary workers recognize AI’s potential for faster, more effective job matching, while trust, human interaction, and fast pay remain central to the experience. “As AI continues to reshape how work gets done, it’s encouraging to see these findings...

WorkWhile , the AI-native labor platform transforming hourly workforce management, announced the appointment of James Everingham to its Board of Directors. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI James currently serves as CEO of Guild AI and previously held senior engineering leadership roles at Instagram and Meta, most recently Vice President of Engineering at Meta Devinfra, where he helped scale large-scale infrastructure and AI systems used by billions of people worldwide. He brings deep expertise in AI infrastructure, distributed systems, and enterprise-scale platforms as WorkWhile expands its investments in real-world AI models and operational simulation technology. “AI is moving beyond software assistants into systems that directly influence real-world business operations,” said Everingham. “What matters now is building infrastructure that organizations can trust, systems that are...

I spend a lot of time talking to other CHROs right now, and the conversation is almost always the same. Everyone has more data than they know what to do with. Everyone is experimenting with AI. And almost no one feels like it’s actually changing behavior at scale. I say that with empathy because not long ago, we were in the same place. What makes my role a little different is that I’m not just buying HR technology, I’m also helping build it. My team at Perceptyx is often the first to use the products we bring to market. That’s a gift, but it’s also very exposing. When something doesn’t work, there’s nowhere to hide. And for a while, we were running into the same wall I hear from everyone else: We had the insights. We just weren’t seeing enough change. The Problem We Had to Admit We’ve been in the listening space for a long time. We’re very good at understanding what employees are experiencing and where things are breaking down. But knowing isn’t the same as improving. We could t...

The Marinette School District has announced a new partnership with Edustaff , a leading provider of educational staffing services, to enhance the district’s ability to recruit, place, and retain high-quality substitute teachers, paraprofessionals, and support staff across its schools. The collaboration is designed to ensure continuity of instruction and student support throughout the academic year. Under the agreement, Edustaff will manage the full lifecycle of substitute and support staff recruitment — from sourcing and credentialing to scheduling and compliance — leveraging its proprietary technology platform and deep network of education professionals. This allows Marinette administrators and principals to focus on their core mission of delivering an exceptional learning experience for students. Edustaff brings decades of experience partnering with school districts across the Midwest to address the persistent challenge of staff shortages. The company’s approach combines perso...

Boomi enables New Zealand infrastructure company to modernise employee management processes, unifying data across systems and accelerating workforce onboarding Boomi, the data activation company, announced Citycare Property has streamlined its HR and employee management processes using the Boomi Enterprise Platform, resulting in faster onboarding times, improved data quality, and increased employee satisfaction. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI Citycare Property is a New Zealand-owned social infrastructure organisation that delivers critical services — building, maintaining, operating, and renewing essential infrastructure — to central and local governments nationwide. To support continuing growth and business evolution, Citycare Property wanted to modernise its human resources processes and systems. Citycare Property implemented a new Human Resources Information System (HRIS) platform. T...

Platform serving users ages 13–30 across all 50 states earns top honor at the 24th Annual American Business Awards Tallo , a free digital career platform, has earned a Gold Stevie Award in the Education – Career and Workforce Readiness Solution category at the 24th Annual American Business Awards. Recognized for connecting two million individuals to careers, credentials, and opportunities, Tallo offers early talent ages 13 to 30 the tools and resources to move from career uncertainty to confident action. The award comes as workforce readiness remains a critical challenge nationwide. Tallo’s 2025 Resource Gap research, which was covered by CBS Evening News and Fortune, found that nearly two-thirds of young adults lack clear career direction and  one in four  cannot find work in their intended field. “The workforce readiness gap persists because resources aren’t reaching the people who need them,” said Allison Danielsen, CEO of Tallo. “Too many young peopl...

Businesses are investing more in workplace technology than ever before. And yet, in most UK organisations, the single biggest factor determining whether a talented employee gets developed, promoted, or even noticed is something far less sophisticated: which manager they happen to report to. It is what amounts to a manager’s lottery. And it is costing businesses far more than they realise. The gut-instinct gap Recent YouGov research we commissioned, surveying 171 HR professionals across UK organisations, found that 68% of skills gaps are still being identified informally by line managers. Not through structured assessments, skills frameworks, or data analytics, but through observation, instinct, and whoever happens to be visible at the right moment. The same pattern plays out across other critical people decisions. Over half of employee sentiment signals surface through manager observation alone, and 35% of succession decisions are made informally. Meanwhile, 27% of internal op...

Pay equity leader announces Decision Intelligence for Pay platform and launches product to govern pay decisions at the moment they happen Syndio , the company trusted by nearly 400 global enterprises to govern pay decisions, unveiled a new look and further defined a new market category: Decision Intelligence for Pay. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview With Hari Kolam, CEO and Co-founder of Findem: Featuring Findem’s GliderAI Decision Intelligence for Pay is a new category of solutions that connects an organization’s pay strategy to every pay decision made in its name: at scale, across the full employee lifecycle, in real time. The rebrand arrives alongside the launch of Decisions, Syndio’s AI-powered product that puts real-time pay intelligence directly into the hands of the people making pay decisions, guiding human judgment in the moment. The announcement is accompanied by new proprietary insights quantifying the millions enterprise organizations lose ...

There is a structural tension at the heart of hybrid work in 2026 that no scheduling policy alone can resolve. Organizations have accepted that work happens across offices, homes, and time zones simultaneously. What many have not yet accepted is that the employee experience infrastructure built for an office-first world, the onboarding programs, the engagement rituals, the feedback mechanisms, the manager relationships, fundamentally does not transfer to a distributed model without being rebuilt, not just replicated. The organizations trying to close the gap are doing it using AI-powered HR tools that personalize the experience of every employee at a scale no manual HR team could achieve. This is the transformation underway in HRTech in 2026 and understanding it clearly requires looking at what is actually being built, what it is delivering, and what role HR leaders must play in governing it. Why engagement and retention are board-level issues Gartner’s October 2025 CHRO survey...

Match2 solves hiring’s biggest problem: disconnected candidates and companies Match2 , the platform powering the Universal Candidate Profile, announced its integration with the Phenom Marketplace, making it available to the thousands of employers who rely on Phenom to power their talent experience. This partnership brings Match2’s Universal Candidate Profile , Direct Talent Network (DTN), and Talent Connector platform into the Phenom hiring ecosystem, creating a more connected, personalized hiring experience across employers’ career sites. The integration extends the Phenom experience with a portable profile that travels with candidates across every employer they choose to connect with — giving them continuity across career sites for the first time. By combining AI-powered matching, interactive apply, and persistent candidate connectivity, Match2 helps employers capture, qualify, and stay connected with talent, while giving candidates a portable profile that is recognize...

New integration closes the reimbursement gap for teams domestic or abroad: expense data flows to global payroll with local compliance automatically enforced and built to scale. Expensify, Inc. , the easiest way to manage expenses, corporate cards, and travel, announced a strategic partnership with Playroll, a global HR platform that makes it simple to hire, pay, and manage global teams compliantly. The new integration closes the reimbursement gap for global teams – expense data flows to payroll in local currency with compliance automatically enforced across 180+ countries. Expensify’s expense platform directly to Playroll’s global payroll infrastructure, in a single workflow from receipt to reimbursement. Approved expenses flow into the next payroll run in each country, are processed in local currency, and are reconciled against payroll in real time. The partnership includes a new integration that connects Expensify’s expense management platform with Playroll’s ...