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ZipRecruiter Research: 53% of Workers Say AI Has Made Their Work More Enjoyable
ZipRecruiter's 2026 AI Worker Report — drawn from 1,500 employed U.S. workers — finds that 53% say AI has made their work more enjoyable, while 42% worry AI will render their job or skills obsolete. The dual finding captures a workforce navigating AI with cautious optimism.
What's New in the SAP SuccessFactors App for Microsoft Teams — 2H 2026 Release
SAP's 2H 2026 update to the SuccessFactors app for Microsoft Teams adds leave deduction transparency, a redesigned continuous feedback flow, admin-controlled calendar-sync consent, and expanded HR quick-action message customization. The release also progresses toward multi-SuccessFactors-tenant support within a single Microsoft tenant — a long-requested enterprise capability.
Workday Expands Agentic AI in HR With New Total Benefits Experience - Cloud Wars
Workday is reportedly expanding its agentic AI capabilities within its HR platform through a new offering called Total Benefits Experience, according to Cloud Wars. The product is designed to automate and personalize how employees interact with and manage their benefits — marking a concrete step in Workday's broader push to embed autonomous AI agents into core HR processes.
Checkr Partners with Workday to Automate Income & Employment Verification
Checkr has partnered with Workday to automate income and employment verification, embedding the capability into the Workday Total Benefits suite. Employees can instantly verify their employment status and earnings for loan applications, rental agreements, job changes, or benefits eligibility — without manual paperwork or HR intervention. The integration is available as an opt-in for eligible Workday customers, reportedly launching in late October. Checkr, which describes itself as an AI-powered verification platform, counts more than 140,000 customers.
Employees report performative AI use amid role changes
A Visier study, as reported by HR Dive, finds that employees across enterprises are performing AI adoption for appearances rather than integrating AI tools into genuine workflows. Pressure from leadership to demonstrate AI use is reportedly masking deeper workforce anxieties around job security and stalled career advancement — a warning sign for HR and people-analytics leaders that change-management strategies may need urgent recalibration.
From Activation to Adoption: Five New WalkMe Process Guides for SAP SuccessFactors HCM
WalkMe has launched five new in-app process guides designed for SAP SuccessFactors HCM, reportedly released around August 25, 2025. The guides are aimed at helping HR teams bridge the persistent gap between the activation of generative AI features within SuccessFactors and meaningful end-user adoption of those capabilities.
Payroll TechnologySurvey Finds Trust and Human Oversight Key to Employee Adoption of Emerging Payroll Technologies - PR Newswire
A newly released survey, distributed via PR Newswire, reportedly identifies employee trust and human oversight as the two foremost factors influencing worker adoption of emerging payroll technologies. The sponsoring organization, survey methodology, and sample details have not been disclosed in available reporting.
New Survey from Legion Technologies Finds Workforce Technology Is Improving Employee Flexibility and Operational Efficiency
Legion Technologies has released its 2026 State of the North American Hourly Workforce report, surveying hourly employees and managers across 11 industries. The headline finding, according to the company, is that modern workforce management (WFM) technology is enabling organizations to deliver greater schedule flexibility to workers while simultaneously improving operational efficiency — a pairing long assumed to involve painful trade-offs.
TopicsStarbucks Announces New Incentive Rewards Program to Create More Opportunities for Partners to Share in Success
Starbucks launched a new incentive rewards program for U.S. hourly partners. Baristas and shift supervisors can earn up to $1,200 annually via quarterly bonuses tied to store performance and customer experience. Expanded tipping and weekly
Topics2024 Workplace Trends Report Unveils Latest Employee Data Paired with Practical Advice
Quantum Workplace Research Shows AI, Change Management, and Retention to be Big Issues for Organizations in 2024. OMAHA, Neb. , Feb. 21, 2024 Acting on workplace data will be critical in 2024, according to the Not Another Employee Engagem
Venture CapitalErudit Raises $10M Series A to Help Companies Ditch Surveys and Embrace AI to Transform the Employee Experience
In a groundbreaking move that promises to redefine the landscape of Human Resources, Erudit has successfully secured $10 million in a Series A funding round. Led by an impressive consortium of investors including Conexo Ventures, Athos Capi
TopicsFirst HP Work Relationship Index Shows Majority of People Worldwide Have an Unhealthy Relationship with Work
HP Research Finds Expectations of Work Have Changed Drastically in the Last 2-3 Years News Highlights Only 27% of knowledge workers say they have a healthy relationship with work; India is most healthy, Japan least healthy 83% of knowledge
Employee ExperiencePerceptyx Acquires Behavioral Science Pioneer Humu to Close the Gap Between Employee Insights and Action
The acquisition of Humu by Perceptyx is a significant milestone in the HR Tech industry. This move combines the strengths of two innovative companies, creating a powerful synergy that promises to revolutionize the way organizations understa
TopicsHow an Increasingly Competitive Job Market Is Impacting the Employee Experience in 2023
We're in a different labor market, with fewer job requisitions and increased competition among job seekers. Read on to learn how to attract top talent and cultivate higher levels of employee resilience in this new environment. Organizations
TopicsRiverbed Leads in Workplace Employee Experience Management Platforms
Riverbed , the leader in unified observability, today announced that it was named a Leader in Everest Group’s report: Workplace Employee Experience Management Platforms PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2023. Everest Group assessed 10 Digital Employe
TopicsJobs Platform LaborX Will Use SingularityNET's AI Tools To Automate Recruitment Process
Blockchain-powered recruitment platform LaborX has announced a partnership with the SingularityNET AI solutions developer to automate job search and hiring processes. LaborX, which is a product of Australian company Chrono.tech, will use S
TopicsScreenCloud And Google Deepen Collaboration, Further Elevating The Workplace Experience For Hundreds Of Thousands Of Frontline Employees
ScreenCloud announced its cloud-based, all-in-one digital signage platform has been recognized by Google as a Chrome Enterprise Recommended solution in the kiosk and digital signage category. This recognition from Google is a testament to
Venture CapitalZoom to acquire Workvivo to bolster employee experience offering: Putting people at the heart of hybrid work
The employee communication and engagement platform will give Zoom new ways to keep employees informed, engaged, and connected Friday, April 14, 2023 – Behind work are workers. Real everyday people. People who work to live, not live to work
JoshBersinJosh Bersin:HR Technology 2023: What’s Hot? What’s Not?
The HR Tech market has been on fire for the last few years. More than $15 Billion of venture and PE money was invested and the number of startups is astounding. The average large company now has more than 80 different employee-facing syste
JoshBersinNext Generation HCM: It May Be Closer Than You Think.
But in the meantime, I want to talk about a big topic: Next Gen HCM . What Is Next-Gen HCM? The Human Capital Management (HCM) market is a massive, business-critical market. Going back to the days of mainframe computers, applications like
Venture CapitalWorkvivo Raises $22m Series B from Tiger Global as Employee Experience Market Booms
The new round sees Workvivo’s valuation more than triple. The company has year-on-year growth over 150% in the $300 billion employee experience market. Workvivo has more than 300 customers in 90 countries across the globe. Boston and Cork,
JoshBersinNew Research: Cloud-Based HCM Can Redefine Employee Experience
We just completed two years of research on cloud-based HCM (human capital management) systems and the results are striking. Among the 35+ implementations we studied, the findings are now clear: these systems do much more than clean up IT sy
OpinionHow the Future of Work will Improve the Employee Experience
Since the start of the internet, we have slowly transitioned from an analog species to a digital species: Homo Digitalis. Nowadays, for most of humanity, the internet has become the norm, and we spend many hours per day on the internet and
TopicsMicrosoft announces four new employee workforce initiatives
Today, Microsoft is announcing new changes and investments aimed at further deepening our employee relationships and enhancing our workplace culture. Specifically, we are making changes to U.S. based policies and practices related to noncom
TopicsMaking Sense of Employee Expectations in 2022
How have employee expectations evolved? Learn what our research reveals following an analysis of 19 million comments submitted in Workday Peakon Employee Voice throughout 2021 by nearly 1.8 million employees. The list of events impacting or
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