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Businessolver research reveals a C-suite divided over whether AI should make the workforce more capable or leaner, while CIOs and CTOs are 25 points more likely than CFOs to worry that technology will outpace internal systems and workforce skills. Executives investing in AI for cost savings via headcount reduction are nearly half as likely to invest in the AI upskilling and workforce readiness needed to enable the AI efficiency they seek, according to new Businessolver research. Among the 27% of C-suite executives who name cost savings through headcount reduction as a top AI investment goal, just 18% also prioritize AI upskilling, compared with 35% of CXOs who do not prioritize AI for headcount reduction. The same leaders trail on predictive analytics (21% vs. 44%), time savings and productivity, and reducing employees’ administrative work — the investments that make a workforce more capable. “AI does not create value on its own. People create value when they’re ena...

The landmark release introduces X (Twitter) support, a fully redesigned user interface, and system-wide dark mode to maximize organic reach and user efficiency. PeopleSocial , the premier employee-led distribution engine, has officially announced its V2026.09.15 release. Marking the largest platform upgrade since PeopleSocial 2.0, this latest version expands brand storytelling by introducing X (Twitter) as a fully supported advocacy network. By unlocking one more core social channel, PeopleSocial gives organizations a much-needed boost to multiply audience reach, drive organic brand equity, and turn employees into powerful brand advocates. With X being integrated, a rebuilt interface, and dark mode across the whole platform, PeopleSocial is now at the threshold of the experience and efficiency which employee advocacy demands in 2026.” — Andy Elliott, Vice President | Product Strategy, Evonsys As marketing teams look beyond traditional advertising to counter rising acquisition cost...

AI was supposed to take work off our plates. Instead, for some employees, it may just be piling more on. A recent Employee Benefit News article highlighted some significant findings from the WebMD Health Services’ 2026 Workplace and Employee Survey Report: 80% of workers are using AI. But employees who strongly agree that AI makes them more productive are 4.5 times more likely to experience burnout. Middle managers are feeling the strain most acutely, reporting burnout at more than three times the rate of individual contributors. That should get the attention of every leader in tech — and really, every leader. The immediate temptation is to conclude that AI is creating burnout. The more useful conclusion is that many companies are changing the technology, but they’re not redesigning the experience around how people actually work. That’s an important distinction. If you introduce a new tool but it doesn’t eliminate any meetings, speed up approvals or produce reports faster, it’s no...

Mike Dalewitz named executive chairman and Cat Casey president as the company brings learning, community, careers, media and services onto one AI-powered platform Intelligent AF launched as an AI-fluency ecosystem that brings education, community, events, career services, media and investment into one membership for the legal industry. The company will start in legal and expand into other professional services industries. It is backed by a group of investors led by Mike Dalewitz of Greenwood Drive Investments, who will serve as executive chairman. Co-founder Cat Casey, a legal AI executive and influencer who helped scale two legal technology companies to unicorn status, will serve as the company’s first president. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ For most of the legal industry, the time to build AI fluency is now, and there has been no single place to do it. A few thousand early adopters already have the confe...

Bengaluru team will support global technology, manufacturing and financial services companies including Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Goldman Sachs, Amgen and many other multinational enterprises as they navigate India’s market structure, regulatory complexity, litigation exposure and platform risk. Keystone , a global advisory firm that guides the most critical technology and science-based platforms and ecosystems, announced it is establishing Keystone India, with Bengaluru as its first hub in the country. The company plans to hire talent and expand its workforce in India over the next two years. Keystone’s model differs from traditional consulting firms. Since its founding in 2003, Keystone has studied how technology ecosystems develop, how digital platforms compete and how transformative innovations change markets. The firm’s “triad” of disciplines brings together economists, technologists and management scientists, allowing Keystone to examine a problem fr...

New capability shows how work is changing task by task – and connects those insights to skills, workforce planning, learning, mobility, and redeployment Fuel50, the award-winning Workforce Transformation Platform, today announced the release of Task Intelligence, a new capability that helps HR, workforce, and business leaders understand how artificial intelligence is changing work inside roles—and decide what should happen next. AI is not changing work role by role, but rather task by task. A marketer may still be a marketer, and a recruiter may still be a recruiter, but the work inside those roles is shifting. Research, drafting, analysis, coordination, decision-making, coaching, and relationship management are increasingly shared between people and AI. Fuel50’s Task Intelligence gives leaders a clearer view of that change. It surfaces the tasks inside roles, classifies each task according to the appropriate balance of human and AI contribution, and rolls those insights acros...

Integration gives businesses greater choice and flexibility to streamline verification decisions and improve the consumer experience In a move to broaden the verifications landscape and support faster, more informed decisions, Experian , a global data and technology company, announced a new integration with Workday, Inc., the enterprise AI platform for HR, finance, and IT. The integration will significantly expand the real-time income and employment information that can be accessed through Experian Verify and provide organizations with greater choice and flexibility to complete their verification needs. New integration will significantly expand the real-time income and employment information that can be accessed through Experian Verify and provide organizations with greater choice and flexibility to complete their verification needs. The integration builds on Experian’s broader strategy to expand the Experian Verify network through payroll provider integrations and employer-...

New integration with Workday gives participating employers an easier way to share verified income and employment information Checkr , the AI-powered verification platform for high-stakes decisions, announced a new partnership with Workday to integrate and automate income and employment verification directly for eligible employers with U.S. employees. Through the partnership, employers that opt in can make verified employment and income information available through Checkr. The integration expands Checkr’s verification network, enabling millions of employees to verify their employment and income instantly when applying for a job, a loan, an apartment, or a government benefit—without adding work for HR teams or requiring employees to track down documents. The partnership builds on Checkr’s continued investment in verification, further strengthening its capabilities across tenant, mortgage, employment, and government use cases. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview w...

AI adoption fails when employees get access to the technology but lack the skills to apply it judiciously. Access, alone, does not create value. People need to recognize when AI is useful, where it is not and where human review is important. HR directors may use workforce AI literacy to give staff a framework for becoming ready to work with AI. It links training to employment context, risk level and business outcome. AI literacy needs to be congruent with the realities of work, where each role leverages AI differently. Why should Workforce AI literacy become an HR priority? As AI becomes part of daily work across functions, HR should prioritize workforce AI literacy. Today, AI is used by employees to write, study, analyze, support customers and support decisions. This affects the role of HR. You’re not training people on one tool anymore. You are helping them to be judicious in the use of AI, mindful of privacy, and disciplined in review. Why is this important? Weak AI can lead to ...

New 1:1 advertising solution builds upon Employer Brand Network capabilities by delivering hyper-personalized, in-market job ads to qualified candidates wherever they engage online HireClix, a leading recruitment marketing services company, announced its new EBN 1:1 recruitment advertising solution — the latest expansion of its Employer Brand Network (EBN) — that allows employers to leverage sophisticated consumer targeting to reach candidates on consumers sites. The new EBN 1:1 advertisements will showcase both an employer’s brand and curated job openings in local markets, turning employer brand campaigns into a source of unique, high-quality applicants. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ The EBN 1:1 ad solution syncs directly to a company’s job feed, automatically generating, targeting and serving real-time, job-level display ads to targeted talent. Rather than generic, “We’re Hiring” job ad...

Beeline customers can now onboard, credential, govern, and account for AI agents through the same trusted platform they use to manage their extended workforce Beeline , the workforce orchestration company for the extended workforce, and Insygna, the first Agentic Workforce Management (AWM) platform, are making Insygna’s capabilities available to Beeline customers. They can now onboard, credential, govern and account for AI agents through Beeline alongside the people in their extended workforce. Enterprises are deploying AI agents faster than they can govern them or account for what they cost. Gartner predicts that by 2028 an average global Fortune 500 enterprise will have over 150,000 agents in use (up from fewer than 15 in 2025). Gartner also reported that only 13 percent of organizations think they have the right AI agent governance in place. Beeline has spent 25 years building the systems enterprises use to source, manage, and pay their contingent workforce. Earlier this mo...

Elizabeth Andora, Chief People Officer at DHI Group, Inc. chats about the evolving tech talent market and what it takes to retain talent and redefine hiring processes in an AI driven age in this HRTech interview: ______ Hi Liz, in today’s AI driven era, what core facets of a Chief People Officer’s role matter most? For me, a big part of the role is making sure we have the right culture that is strong and focused on helping our people grow as the business changes. At Dice, development is an area we’re extremely focused on, and we’ve hired our first learning and development director to help look at how we support growth at the individual, team, leader and organizational level. In addition to core areas of development at all levels, as AI becomes a bigger part of work, CPOs will need to make sure we’re helping and teaching our team members how to adopt AI and succeed alongside it. How should HR teams redefine their retention, engagement and hiring processes in a...

The AI Lab Expands Rippling’s Engineering Investment as the Company Doubles Its India Workforce Rippling, the AI-native workforce management company, launched the Rippling AI Lab, a research and engineering group dedicated to continuous AI innovation. The AI Lab is based at Rippling’s Embassy Tech Village campus in Bengaluru, the company’s largest engineering hub outside its San Francisco headquarters. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ Our goal has been to build an engineering organization in India with ownership of some of Rippling’s most important technical challenges. The AI Lab team develops core components of Rippling’s AI platform, including infrastructure, evaluation frameworks, sandboxing, scaling, latency optimization, and other platform capabilities that support AI across Rippling products. The work of the AI Lab builds on systems Rippling has developed over the past decade. Rippl...