Thursday, October 15, 2026

Harmonic Security Raises $50M Series B - The SaaS News

Harmonic Security has raised a $50M Series B, according to The SaaS News.

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iQmetrixとストラタスHRが提携し、無線通信機器販売店向けに人事業務の完全外部委託を提供

PEO provider Stratus HR has partnered with retail commerce platform iQmetrix to deliver fully outsourced HR services — including payroll, benefits, and compliance — to wireless retail dealers. The integration connects iQmetrix's point-of-sale and workforce data directly to Stratus HR's payroll system, the companies say, eliminating double data entry and accelerating onboarding for store staff.

Samenvatting: iQmetrix en Stratus HR gaan samenwerken om retailers in de draadloze sector een complete, uitbestede HR-afdeling te bieden

Stratus HR, a PEO and HR-outsourcing provider, has announced a partnership with iQmetrix — a commerce operating system for the telecom retail sector — to become the embedded, full-service HR partner for wireless retailers on the iQmetrix platform, covering payroll, benefits, and compliance.

Riassunto: iQmetrix e Stratus HR si alleano per offrire ai rivenditori di dispositivi wireless una divisione completa di gestione delle risorse umane (HR) in outsourcing

Stratus HR, a professional employer organization (PEO), has partnered with iQmetrix — a commerce operating system for telecom retail — to provide wireless device retailers with a full outsourced HR management offering, according to Business Wire.

Remote Rebrands With Banknote-Colored Cubes to Explain Payroll - DesignRush

Global employment platform Remote has refreshed its brand identity, adopting a banknote-inspired color palette and geometric cube imagery to visually communicate its payroll and EOR offering, according to DesignRush.

Clasp Launches the First Marketplace for Loan-Linked Hiring, Where Every Healthcare Job Lists What It Pays Toward Your Student Loans

Clasp has launched a healthcare job marketplace where every listing discloses an employer's student-loan repayment contribution alongside salary, using what the company calls "Loan-Linked Hiring" — a model in which employers commit a set amount and pay loan servicers directly as clinicians stay in role, aiming to improve clinical-staff retention.

Insperity Unveils Its AI Capabilities for the Future of HR Highlighting New Insperity HR360 AI Agent

Insperity (NYSE: NSP), a PEO serving small and midsize businesses, has unveiled an AI strategy and a new product called Insperity HR360 AI Agent, aimed at helping clients analyze and transform their workforces in the AI era, with capabilities spanning employees, client-facing teams, and external customers.

Workday Finally Fixes its Recruiting Problem

Global employment platform G-P (Globalization Partners) says it expects to exceed $450 million in annual recurring revenue and deliver more than $100 million in core operating profit for full-year 2026, crediting rapid customer adoption of its agentic capabilities for the accelerating growth.

CEOs want ‘enterprise CHROs’ who can talk strategy and skills, report finds

CEOs at high-performing companies are increasingly seeking CHROs who can engage on technology strategy and workforce skills, with enterprise CHROs partnering closely with senior tech leaders as AI reshapes work, according to a Heidrick & Struggles report.

HR Tech Bytes from Octopyd, Surface

Octopyd has launched Talent Review Arena, a candidate-evaluation product that uses its AI agent Ivy to score applicants against role-specific rubrics and generate explainable rankings from hiring-manager feedback. The release is a concrete AI-in-recruiting product launch with a named vendor and agentic evaluation capability directly relevant to ATS and hiring-workflow buyers.

Greenhouse Launches the Orchestrated Hiring Ecosystem to Break AI's Hiring Doom Loop - PR Newswire

Greenhouse has launched what it calls the Orchestrated Hiring Ecosystem, a platform move aimed at addressing AI-driven dysfunction in recruiting workflows — a direct product development for HR and talent acquisition leaders evaluating ATS and AI hiring tooling.

Staffing For Doctors Launches Medical Virtual Staffing Marketplace

Staffing For Doctors has launched a marketplace platform where medical practices can browse and hire from a pool of up to 1,000 vetted virtual assistants, scribes, and billers across more than 55 specialties, with the company saying matches are made within 48–72 hours via a single management dashboard — compressing what it describes as a previously 30-day hiring process.

68% of Hiring Managers Say AI-Powered Fraud Is Outpacing Detection, Checkr Report Finds - PR Newswire

Background-screening platform Checkr reports that 68% of hiring managers say AI-powered candidate fraud is outpacing their ability to detect it, according to a new company report highlighting growing pressure on recruiting and verification workflows.

Shoe Station Group Gave Its Store Managers Their Day Back With Fountain. Time to Hire Fell to 6 Days.

Shoe Station Group reports that deploying Fountain's high-volume hiring platform across its 420-plus stores cut time-to-hire from roughly 14 days to 6 and reduced applicant drop-off from about 60% to 35%, according to Business Wire. The case study highlights Fountain's traction in frontline, multi-location retail recruiting.

G-P Forecasts Record 2026 on Surging Demand for Agentic AI and Global Employment Services

Global employment platform G-P (Globalization Partners) is projecting it will exceed $450 million in ARR and top $100 million in core operating profit for full-year 2026, according to the company, citing strong customer uptake of its agentic AI capabilities alongside its EOR services.

The Skills You're Trying to Hire For Might Already Be on Your Payroll

SHL research finds that two-thirds of workers believe they must leave their employer to advance their careers, highlighting a gap between internal talent visibility and external hiring — a finding with direct implications for HR-tech buyers investing in skills-mapping and internal mobility platforms.

AllianceHCM Puts AI to Work Across One Platform for Payroll, HR, Talent, and Benefits - PR Newswire

AllianceHCM has announced AI capabilities embedded across its unified platform covering payroll, HR, talent, and benefits, according to a PR Newswire release.

Employees' Confidence in Workplace Financial Wellness Support Plummets From 74% to 35% in a Single Year

Payroll Integrations' 2026 Employee Financial Wellness Report finds that employee confidence in employer-provided financial wellness support dropped sharply — from 74% to 35% year-over-year — as cost-of-living pressures drive workers to scrutinize benefits more closely, according to Business Wire.

More Than Half of Managers Say Employees Are Assigned Work They Don't Have the Skills to Do, Skillsoft Research Finds

More than half of managers report assigning work that outpaces employees' current skills, according to Skillsoft research, with the company saying the resulting gaps are damaging revenue, customer outcomes, and engagement — and that training typically arrives too late to close them.

Unlocking Advanced Time Valuation: Extending ECP with SuccessFactors Time Tracking Start & End Times

SAP Community contributors have published a proof-of-concept showing how passing start/end time data from SuccessFactors Time Tracking into Employee Central Payroll (ECP) unlocks previously unsolvable time-valuation scenarios — such as per-occurrence overtime make-up rates under complex labor agreements — by giving ECP's time-evaluation engine precise temporal context rather than duration-only records. HR-tech practitioners running SAP's integrated HCM suite will want to note this as a concrete workaround for nuanced pay-rule configurations that vendors had historically flagged as out-of-stand

HiringThing Launches MCP Server to Power AI Hiring Workflows - HRTech Series

HiringThing has launched an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server designed to enable AI-driven hiring workflows, according to HRTech Series — a concrete product move that positions the ATS vendor to connect its recruiting platform with agentic AI tooling. HR-tech buyers evaluating AI-native recruiting infrastructure should note this as an early signal of ATS vendors opening their platforms to agent orchestration.

Interplay Learning Launches Skill Verification to Demonstrate Workforce Readiness - PR Newswire

Interplay Learning has launched a Skill Verification feature aimed at helping employers confirm workforce readiness through its learning platform, according to PR Newswire.

California Raises Repeat Pay Data Reporting Penalty to $1,000 per Employee

California's SB 1237, signed by Gov. Newsom, raises the maximum penalty for repeat failures to file mandatory pay data reports from $200 to $1,000 per employee — meaning a 1,000-employee employer could face up to $1 million for a second missed filing, according to HR Morning. The higher cap takes effect January 1, 2027, with the May 2027 filing deadline as the first at-risk submission for private employers with 100 or more payroll or labor-contractor workers.

Graduate hiring | Graduate jobs stabilise as AI misconduct hits record high

According to HR Grapevine, ISE data shows graduate job volumes have stabilised while a record surge in applications and AI misuse by candidates is prompting 77% of employers to reconsider their early-careers hiring processes.

Holding up a mirror | Inside Raaha, the job-fit app built by a 17-year-old founder

Raaha, a job-fit app aimed at helping candidates — particularly neurodivergent applicants — assess role suitability before applying, is profiled by HR Grapevine, with its teenage founder making the case for candidate-side matching tools as a counterweight to employer-led screening.