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Quantum Workplace is turning disconnected talent data into insights and decision support leaders can trust — adding a product and AI leader to its board to accelerate the work. Quantum Workplace , a connected talent management platform that helps leaders build thriving teams, today announced that Rupali Jain has joined its Board of Directors. Jain is Chief Product Officer at Optimizely, where she has led the company’s transformation to an AI-native product organization and launched its agentic AI platform for marketing. “I’m thrilled to have Rupali on our board. She’s a proven leader who has spent her career making complicated data usable and deploying AI in ways that significantly improve the work of the people using it.” – Joe Holland, CEO, Quantum Workplace Jain joins the board as Quantum Workplace expands its use of AI to help leaders turn fragmented talent data into actionable insights they’d otherwise miss. While organizations have a...

Cybersecurity. ERP. Cloud resilience. These are all considered business-critical infrastructure because when they fail, business operations come to a stop. Payroll doesn’t get the same attention, but it should. Payroll touches every person in an organization, and when it fails, it can have major real-life consequences for employees—like missed mortgage or bill payments. And nothing erodes trust faster than that. Most companies probably don’t have an answer to the question of who owns payroll risk. The HR department may see it as a people function, finance as a matter of reconciliation, and IT as another system that runs in the background until something goes wrong. Each department makes sense, but none tells the whole story. When responsibility is spread across teams without a clear owner, that’s where payroll can start to fall through the cracks. And because payroll feeds so many other parts of the organization, those cracks can quickly become business-wide problems. Pa...

WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) a leading global advisory, broking and solutions company, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Sapien Software, LLC, to provide global HR and deal intelligence software and solutions for mid-market companies involved in divestitures, mergers and acquisitions. The partnership between WTW and Sapien provides HR Management System, Human Capital Management System, payroll administration, international benefits administration and managed services as part of the WTW’s Human Capital Divestitures in a Box (DIAB) solution. The DIAB solution is a one-stop, pre-packaged HR solution that’s globally scalable and designed to support both buyers and sellers. It combines WTW’s M&A consulting expertise in due diligence, deal planning, workforce integration and employee communication, with Sapien’s market leading human capital management software solutions. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ Perr...

As states swap degrees for skills, AI, agents and automation for HR turns policy into measurable hiring outcomes Phenom , the leader in applied AI built to redesign work operations for hiring faster, developing better and retaining longer, and Opportunity@Work, a national nonprofit focused on expanding economic opportunity for workers Skilled Through Alternative Routes (STARs), announced a strategic partnership to help public sector organizations make skills-based hiring a lasting part of their workforce strategies. “Government agencies have some of the best proof that skills-first hiring works… This partnership gives states a practical way to connect that proof to the technology they already use to hire,” said Byron Auguste, CEO and co-founder of Opportunity@Work. States across the country are eliminating degree requirements and adopting skills-first hiring to meet their evolving talent needs and to broaden pathways into public service. While public sector hiring may be les...

The AI-native platform now offers personalized financial guidance that draws on an employee’s specific benefits, pay, and debt, delivered through its conversational AI, Cait. Candidly , the AI-native financial guidance and technology platform, announced a new employee-facing offering: benefits-aware financial guidance that provides the workforce with holistic financial guidance grounded in their own finances and the benefits they are already offered. The solution expands Candidly’s employer-sponsored benefits suite, which to date has centered on student debt and college planning, and now spans an employee’s broader financial life. Employers invest heavily in benefits, but many go underutilized due to low awareness and the need for personalized, holistic guidance to fully understand and take advantage of the full suite of benefits their employer is offering. Making the most of these benefits is rarely a matter of maximizing one piece in isolation — retirement contribu...

The pattern for transforming a workforce often starts familiarly. An organization identifies a gap in capability, rolls out a training program, introduces a new policy or technology, and measures participation. But completing a program does not automatically mean that employees have changed the way they work. A training course can teach a new process, a leadership program can introduce new management practices, and a digital transformation initiative can deploy new tools, but sustained transformation depends on what employees actually do after those interventions. When organizations treat workforce transformation as a one-time initiative, they often find it difficult to sustain the momentum after the formal program has ended. Thus, the gap between training, policy implementation and sustained employee behavior is becoming an important HR technology challenge. Employees may know what they are supposed to do but can still revert to familiar workflows, habits, tools or collaboration pat...