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A Provider of Modern Payroll Infrastructure Salsa Secures $10 Million to Reimagine Payroll

SAN FRANCISCO, May 10, 2023 -- Salsa , a startup that allows software platforms to embed and launch payroll features inside their own products, announced today it has raised $10 million in funding to modernize the way workers get paid. Sals

An Automated Employee Incentive Platform SocialCrowd Raises $550K in Pre-Seed Funding

SocialCrowd , a Southern California-based automated employee incentive platform, closed a $550k pre-seed funding round. The round was led by VC 414 with participation from Anand Gala of Gala Capital Partners and various strategic angel inve

VNDLY Rebranding as Workday VNDLY: A Significant Step Towards Comprehensive Workforce Management

The workforce management landscape has taken a monumental leap forward as Workday, a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, announces the rebranding of VNDLY as Workday VNDLY . The integration of

Tabulera Announces Integration And Partnership With Isolved, A Comprehensive HCM Platform

May 10, 2023/-- Tabulera , a leading provider of benefit plan premium administration software, has partnered with isolved , a comprehensive human capital management platform. Through the isolved Marketplace, clients can access Tabulera's mo

eQ8 Survey Examines the Current State of Strategic Workforce Planning

Austin, Texas – May 9, 2023 – eQ8 , the only dedicated end-to-end SaaS solution for strategic workforce planning using dynamic scenario modeling, released the results of a study on the state of strategic workforce planning. The study was co

ZipRecruiter Announces First Quarter 2023 Results

May 9, 2023/-- ZipRecruiter ® , a leading online employment marketplace, today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2023. ZipRecruiter’s complete first quarter 2023 results, financial guidance, and management commenta

Xoxoday Partners with Workato to Transform Rewards and Recognition

May 9, 2023/-- Xoxoday , a leading rewards and incentives platform, announced a new strategic partnership with Workato , the leading enterprise automation and integration platform. This partnership will enable Xoxoday to create hyper-person

Jackson Healthcare Acquires LRS Healthcare, The 25th-Largest Healthcare Staffing Firm

May 9, 2023/-- Jackson Healthcare ® , a family of highly specialized healthcare staffing, search and technology companies, and LRS Healthcare ® , a leading provider of medical staffing, today announced that the companies have signed a defi

Queensland edtech unicorn Go1 acquires popular German book app Blinkist as valuation hits $3 billion

May 9, 2023/-- Go1 , the Brisbane tech company founded in a garage that made unicorn status and kept going, has bought a German reading app which was last year valued at $US110 million. Go1, which reached a valuation of about $US2 billion l

HireVue Acquires Modern Hire to Transform the Global Talent Experience

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH May 9, 2023 — HireVue , the global leader in video interviewing, assessments, and text-enabled recruiting solutions, today announced it has acquired Modern Hire, the intelligent hiring platform. The acquisition of M

UKG And Google Cloud Announce Partnership To Transform Employee Experiences With Generative AI

Google Cloud and UKG , a leading provider of HR, payroll, and workforce management solutions for all people, today announced an expanded partnership to bring Google Cloud’s generative AI (GenAI) capabilities into the widely adopted UKG hum

San Francisco-based Riviera Partners Acquires Build Talent to Further Support its Early-stage Venture Capital-backed Clients

San Francisco, CA, May 08, 2023 -- Riviera Partners , the leading global executive search firm specializing in senior leadership placements in engineering, product, and design, has announced the acquisition of Build Talent to further suppor

May 8, 2023

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LinkedIn Adjusts China Strategy: Cuts Jobs and Phases Out InCareer App Amid Competition

LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned professional networking platform, has announced that it will be cutting 716 jobs and phasing out its local jobs app, InCareer, in China. The decision comes in the wake of "fierce competition and a challenging m

May 8, 2023

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An Overwhelming Majority Of 81% Organizations Are Experiencing A Shortage In Skilled Tech Workers EY And IMocha Report

EY , the leading professional services organization and iMocha , the world’s leading skills intelligence and skills assessment platform, released a report titled ‘Tech skills transformation – Navigating the future of work in 2025 and beyon

May 6, 2023

Instruqt, a Provider of a Product Growth Platform, Raises €15M in Series A Funding

Instruqt , a Hilversum, Netherlands-based provider of a product growth platform, raised €15M in Series A funding. The round was led by Blossom Capital. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its business reach. Led by

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Asure to Showcase Payroll Tax Management Solutions at Payroll Congress and TPG National Conference

Asure (NASDAQ: ASUR), a leading provider of cloud-based Human Capital Management (HCM) software solutions, is pleased to announce its participation in two upcoming industry events this month: the American Payroll Association’s (APA) Payroll

Riverbed 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

Global People Analytics Leader Visier Introduces New Products to Address Workforce Challenges

Visier , the globally recognized leader in people analytics and workforce solutions for people-powered business, today announced new products designed to offer fast, radically simple, and cost-effective solutions to today’s most pressing wo

Airspeed Raises $7.5M in Funding to Expand Operations and its Business Reach

Airspeed , a San Francisco, CA-based platform focused on connecting and celebrating employees, raised $7.5m in funding. The funding included: $5M Series Seed round of funding led by Greylock Partners and Venrock, with participation from Sal

A SaaS-based Connected Worker Platform Innovapptive Raises an Undisclosed Amount in Series B Funding

Innovapptive , a Houston, TX-based provider of a SaaS-based connected worker platform, raised an undisclosed amount in Series B funding. The round was led by Vista Equity Partners , with participation from existing investor Tiger Global Man

Francisco-based Switchboard Receives Investment From HubSpot

Switchboard , a San Francisco, CA-based digital collaboration workspace that helps hybrid and remote teams communicate and work side by side, received an investment from HubSpot Ventures, the venture arm of HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS). The amount

Paylocity Announces Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2023 Financial Results

Paylocity Holding Corporation (Nasdaq: PCTY), a leading provider of cloud-based HCM and payroll software solutions, today announced financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2023, which ended March 31, 2023. "Our overall moment

Randstad Reports First Quarter 2023 Results, Organic Revenue Per Working Day Declined by 4.2% YoY

Randstad , the world’s largest talent company and a partner of choice to clients, today announced its financial results for the first quarter on May 3, 2023. Financial performance Revenue Organic revenue per working day declined by 4.2% YoY

Ceridian Reports First Quarter 2023 Results, Total Revenue Up 26.4% to $370.6 Million

Dayforce recurring revenue up 43.8% year-over-year, or 46.0% on a constant currency basis Total revenue of $370.6 million, up 26.4% year-over-year, or 29.3% on a constant currency basis Operating profit of $38.4 million and adjusted operati

IgniteTech Announces Addition of Jive Software to Company's Leading Solutions

AUSTIN, Texas -- IgniteTech™ , the company "Where Software Goes to Thrive™," today announced that Jive Software is now part of its set of leading software solutions for enterprise customers. Because of Jive's global reach and record of succ

A Technical Hiring Platform London-based hackajob Raises $25M in Series B Funding

hackajob , a London, UK-based provider of a technical hiring platform, raised $25M in Series B funding. The round was led by Volition Capital , with participation from existing investors AXA Venture Partners and Foresight. The company inten

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Veriforce Transforms Its Global Workforce Management Capabilities with the Acquisition of Global Worker Pass

HOUSTON TX – May 3, 2023/-- Veriforce , the industry’s fastest-growing provider of supply chain risk and compliance management solutions, has announced the acquisition of Global Worker Pass , an innovative software solution designed to stre

Recruitics Launches Fusion, the New Quality Applicant Delivery Platform

Recruitics , the leader in programmatic advertising and analytics for recruitment, has unveiled Fusion, an end-to-end talent conversion, engagement, and screening platform. Fusion seamlessly integrates a conversion-optimized candidate exper

Televerde Foundation Announces Grand Opening Of Second Workforce Development Center Within The Arizona Department Of Corrections Perryville

Televerde Foundation , a non-profit organization that provides personal and professional development opportunities to currently and formerly incarcerated women so they can attain meaningful and rewarding careers upon release, officially ann