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Leadership and workforce shifts headline today's HR-tech news, as JPMorgan Chase names its next HR chief, Workday moves to cut roughly 2.5% of its staff primarily in product and technology roles, and PowerToFly announces a pivot. On the AI front, PwC finds that skill levels are driving a growing workforce divide, while McLean & Company urges HR leaders to rethink their talent mix to navigate AI adoption, skills gaps, and rising costs. Investment activity remains active, with Metaview closing a $60M Series C, a construction workforce management platform raising $40M, and new entrants including Genius Match's hiring platform Geni and PitchMe's staffing-focused tool SONAR entering the market.
💰 $60MATSMetaview· 8:33 AM PDT7 sources
Metaview has raised a $60 million Series C led by Insight Partners, with GV, Intrepid Growth Partners, Seedcamp, Vertex Ventures US, Plural and Garuda Ventures participating, bringing total funding to $110 million. The company, which says more than 7,000 companies hire with it, is expanding into an end-to-end agentic recruiting platform and plans to grow from 80 to 250 employees and open a New York office.
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Read the full storyHR Morning· 11:02 AM PDT2 sources
HR Morning publishes a practitioner advice piece on adopting AI across recruiting, performance, and compliance workflows, drawing on SHRM adoption data and referencing TriNet's AI eGuide as a resource.
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WorkdayWorkday (SEC Form 8-K)· 8:53 AM PDT2 sources
Workday is cutting approximately 2.5% of its workforce, primarily in its Product and Technology team, and reducing some leased office space as part of reorganizations announced September 29, 2026, according to a Form 8-K filed with the SEC. It estimates $65 million to $80 million in charges — about $40–55 million in severance and related cash costs, $10 million in stock-based compensation and $15 million in lease impairments — mostly in the third quarter of fiscal 2027, while reiterating its fiscal 2027 guidance apart from GAAP operating margin and saying it will keep hiring in key strategic areas. Based on Workday's roughly 21,000 employees, Seeking Alpha estimates about 525 roles are affected.
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Read the full story💰 €2.2MHR automationTech.eu· 11:35 PM PDT2 sources
Ahron, an AI-driven HR automation startup, has raised €2.2M in early-stage funding, according to Tech.eu — signaling continued investor appetite for tools that reduce manual HR workload through AI.
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enterprise HRHR Dive· 1:19 PM PDT
JPMorgan Chase has named Mark O'Donovan, currently CEO of international consumer banking, as its incoming HR chief, replacing Robin Leopold who is retiring in January, according to HR Dive. The CHRO transition at one of the world's largest employers is a notable leadership move for HR-tech buyers tracking enterprise HR strategy and vendor relationships.
HR Dive· 11:45 AM PDT
A PwC survey finds more than half of workers feel they are falling behind AI-proficient colleagues, with AI skill levels linked to greater perceived job security, according to HR Dive. The findings reflect a growing workforce divide.
PR Newswire· 8:34 AM PDT
McLean & Company is urging HR leaders to rethink workforce composition in response to AI adoption, widening skills gaps, and climbing talent costs, according to the firm's guidance.
ADPADP· 8:32 AM PDT
ADP's September National Employment Report shows U.S. private-sector payrolls grew by 90,000 jobs, offering a macroeconomic labor-market signal.
talent acquisitionThe Manila Times· 8:27 AM PDT
Neuroscale AI is reportedly hosting a forum called "Merit to Mission" to bring together private and public sector leaders for discussions on AI-powered talent acquisition, including challenges around fraud and adoption.
ATSSAP Community· 7:52 AM PDT
SAP Community has detailed a career site integration linking SmartRecruiters with SAP SuccessFactors, aiming to unify the candidate journey across two widely used recruiting and HCM platforms — a concrete product development relevant to HR teams running either system.
Read the full storyATSBusiness Wire· 7:36 AM PDT
Genius Match has launched Geni, an AI-powered hiring platform, according to Business Wire — though the announcement provides no detail on funding, pricing, or distinguishing technical features that would differentiate it in a crowded AI-recruiting market.
HR automationHR Dive· 7:32 AM PDT
According to Eagle Hill Consulting, HR professionals continue to spend significant time on routine, low-value tasks despite widespread AI adoption, suggesting current HR-tech tools are falling short of their promised automation gains.
ATSHR Tech Feed· 7:14 AM PDT
PitchMe has launched SONAR, a talent-search tool now in early access that lets agency recruiters search the public web and enrich candidate profiles while sitting alongside — rather than replacing — their existing ATS or CRM. The product targets staffing agencies and signals PitchMe's push deeper into talent-intelligence infrastructure for the recruitment market.
Talent platformHR Tech Feed· 7:08 AM PDT
Talent platform PowerToFly is relaunching as an AI workforce company, shifting its focus to supplying human expertise for AI model reliability and safety — a direct response, the company says, to widespread AI project failures at large enterprises. The pivot signals growing demand for human-in-the-loop talent services as HR buyers weigh how to staff AI development pipelines.
workforce managementHR Tech Feed· 7:00 AM PDT
Miter, an AI-powered workforce management platform targeting the construction sector, has raised a $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures — with Bessemer Venture Partners and Coatue also participating — bringing total funding to $78M, according to the company. HR-tech buyers in field-intensive industries should note the growing capital flowing into industry-specific HCM platforms as vendors move beyond generic workforce tools.
ATSBusiness Wire· 6:30 AM PDT
HR-tech recruiting platform Phenom has partnered with nonprofit Opportunity@Work to bring skills-based hiring to state government employers, aiming to open public-sector career pathways for workers without traditional degree credentials. The integration targets a largely underserved segment — government HR teams — by applying Phenom's ATS/talent-intelligence tooling to skills-first hiring workflows.
Read the full story💰 FundingAI governanceHR Executive· 5:13 AM PDT
Nvidia's AI agent safety guardrail, according to HR Executive, is prompting fresh questions about governance frameworks for AI agents deployed in HR tech contexts — relevant for HR and People leaders evaluating how to oversee autonomous AI in workforce workflows.
Read the full storytalent acquisitionPersonnel Today· 12:00 AM PDT
Personnel Today is inviting HR professionals to participate in its annual talent acquisition benchmarking survey.
Read the full storyagentic AIAIMultiple· 12:00 AM PDT
AIMultiple published a roundup of agentic AI ERP systems, covering platforms that embed autonomous agents into enterprise resource planning workflows — a space adjacent to HR tech but focused primarily on broader ops and finance functions rather than workforce or people management specifically.
ATSHR Grapevine· 11:58 PM PDT
More than half of UK employers are not yet using AI in recruitment, according to the source, with concerns around candidate verification and trust cited as key barriers even as adoption slowly grows. HR-tech buyers will want to note that employer hesitancy — rather than technology availability — remains the primary friction point in AI-driven hiring in the UK market.
workforce readinessHR Tech Feed· 6:44 PM PDT
Pearson is acquiring Workera, a Silicon Valley startup focused on AI-powered skills verification and enterprise assessments, in a move that deepens the global learning giant's push into corporate upskilling and workforce readiness for the generative and agentic AI era — the deal terms were not disclosed in the source.
Read the full storyHCMKyle Getsiv (Substack)· 6:01 PM PDT
HR SaaS is starting to look less like a growth category and more like a group of mature software businesses, argues Kyle Getsiv in his Q2 2026 public-markets update — though demand has not collapsed: payroll vendors described stable employment and HCM buyers continue to invest. The sector's median forward revenue multiple of 4.6x sits below its historical median, while its growth-adjusted multiple is above it, suggesting investors are pricing dependable cash flows rather than a new growth cycle. Corporate learning remains the clearest area of budget pressure, and AI spending is increasingly tied to specific workflows with measurable returns. Getsiv points to consolidation and private equity — Coursera's merger with Udemy and Thoma Bravo taking Dayforce private — as routes to reworking business models, alongside Workday's move toward Flex Credits and consumption and SAP's talk of outcome-based AI pricing.
