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The HRTech Wire →This week's briefing →Submit newsPublish a sponsored article — $300Survey 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.

HR Path Strengthens Its Dayforce Capabilities in the UK & Ireland with the Acquisition of ModusForce - PR Newswire
HR Path has acquired ModusForce, a UK & Ireland-based specialist in Dayforce (Ceridian) HCM implementation and consultancy. The move deepens HR Path's regional delivery capabilities for Dayforce as demand for the platform grows across British and Irish enterprises. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Intermezzo Secures $10M to Revolutionize Global Payroll Infrastructure with AI-Driven Automation - FF News
Intermezzo, a Menlo Park-based AI-native global payroll infrastructure company, has raised a $10 million seed round led by Crosslink Capital, with participation from UKG Ventures, CloudPay, Character Capital, Behind Genius Ventures and other investors. Founded by former Intuit and Velocity Global technology leaders Siddharth Ram and Kumar Ramanathan, the company is building an API-first payroll infrastructure layer for HCM platforms, EOR providers and payroll bureaus.

HRchitect Guides Global Manufacturer from Payroll Evaluation to Successful UKG Pro Implementation
HRchitect has announced it guided an unnamed global manufacturer through a payroll platform evaluation and subsequent UKG Pro implementation. No client details, scale, timeline, or outcome metrics have been disclosed.

Axis Bank and Cognizant Collaborate to Strengthen Application Management with AMS 2.0 - PR Newswire
Axis Bank and Cognizant have announced AMS 2.0, a collaborative application management services initiative aimed at strengthening banking IT operations. The deal has no HR technology or workforce AI dimension.
Workforce PlanningIreland’s labour market steadies but AI hiring is up, finds report - Silicon Republic
Ireland's labour market is broadly stabilising, but demand for AI-related roles is bucking the trend and climbing, according to a report covered by Silicon Republic. The divergence signals a structural reorientation of hiring priorities that HR leaders and recruiters across Ireland — and potentially the wider European market — should incorporate into near-term workforce strategies.

Phoenix Education Partners to Acquire Fuel50, Advancing the Future of Workforce Transformation
Phoenix Education Partners (NYSE: PXED) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Fuel50, an AI-powered talent marketplace and workforce planning platform. The deal aims to integrate Fuel50's workforce intelligence capabilities into Phoenix Education's existing portfolio, according to a Business Wire announcement. Financial terms and a closing date have not been disclosed.

Bascom Group Acquires 370-Unit Workforce Housing Community in Dallas MSA - PR Newswire
Bascom Group has acquired a 370-unit residential community in the Dallas metro area. The transaction is a straightforward real estate deal with no HR-technology or AI workforce angle.

Harver Acquires Symphony Talent, Creating a Global Talent Intelligence Solution for the AI Era
Harver has acquired Symphony Talent, combining predictive assessment and reference-checking with recruitment marketing, employer branding, and candidate CRM into a single platform the company is positioning as a global, end-to-end talent intelligence solution for the AI era. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Harver Acquires Symphony Talent
Harver, the predictive hiring and assessment platform backed by Rubicon Technology Partners, has acquired Symphony Talent, a recruitment marketing and employer branding vendor. The combination reportedly brings assessment, CRM, and candidate relationship tools under a single talent intelligence platform, according to HR Tech Feed.

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.

Zalaris expands global payroll reach with HiBob integration, supporting HR teams across 100+ countries - People Matters - HR News
Zalaris has launched a native integration with HiBob, connecting HiBob's HRIS to Zalaris's payroll engine across more than 100 countries. The tie-up targets HR teams in multinational organizations seeking seamless HCM-to-payroll data flows without replacing either core platform.

Jack & Jill Secures $40M Series A to Replace Job Applications with AI Agents
Jack & Jill, an AI-native hiring marketplace, has closed a $40M Series A led by Air Street Capital, with Creandum and Madrona participating. The company is building AI agents that replace traditional job applications by orchestrating professional introductions between candidates and employers at scale — a direct challenge to incumbent ATS-driven hiring workflows.
Funding & InvestmentEarly Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents
Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC), co-founded by an early Anthropic hire and the former COO of AI safety evaluator METR, has reportedly raised $40 million in a Series A led by Ribbit Capital. According to TechCrunch, the startup is building technology to detect and constrain rogue AI agents, with a business model centered on AI safety and underwriting — not HR technology.

Stadium Acquires Confetti
Stadium — the company behind corporate gifting brands Snack Magic and Swag Magic — has acquired Confetti, a provider of virtual and hybrid hosted team experiences, according to HR Tech Feed citing WorkTech. The move bundles tangible gifting with live-facilitated employee events under one roof, signaling further consolidation in the employee engagement space. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Globalli Announces Certified Workday Marketplace App, Transforming Global Payroll Operations for Workday Customers - Yahoo Finance
Globalli has secured certification on the Workday Marketplace, launching an app aimed at simplifying global payroll for Workday's enterprise customer base. The certified status signals that the solution has met Workday's integration standards, giving HR and payroll teams a vetted pathway to extend their HCM platform with multi-country payroll capabilities.

Phenom Named a 2026 Top HR Product of the Year by HR Executive
Phenom has been named a 2026 Top HR Product of the Year by HR Executive magazine, according to a September 15 announcement. The specific product or feature behind the designation was not disclosed in the announcement.

India’s Darwinbox Secures Follow-on Investment from TVG; Amount and Round Undisclosed
Teachers' Venture Growth has made its second investment in Darwinbox, following its 2025 entry. Darwinbox serves 1,400+ companies and 4.5 million employees globally. Its AI-native HCM platform, Darwinbox Cortex™, launched in August. Investment terms were not disclosed.

Las Vegas Raiders Select UKG to Power Their Workforce Across Football and Business Operations
The Las Vegas Raiders have chosen UKG as their workforce management platform, according to a Business Wire announcement. The deal is aimed at unifying scheduling, operations, and real-time workforce visibility across both the franchise's football and business sides.

Phenom Unveils Agenda for AI Day 2026, Its Annual Technical Showcase Behind Applied AI & Agents for HR
Phenom has published the agenda for AI Day 2026, its annual technical showcase centered on applied AI and agentic capabilities for HR. The event underscores the vendor's continued investment in AI-driven hiring and talent tools, though specific product announcements or launch details have not been disclosed.
Talent Acquisition TechnologyAgentic AI adoption outpacing governance: report - hcamag.com
A new report cited by HCAMag finds that enterprise adoption of agentic AI is outpacing the governance frameworks organizations have in place to manage it — a gap with significant implications for HR leaders rolling out autonomous AI tools in hiring and people operations.

Effective Strategies for Cleaning Oracle HCM Candidate Data in 2026
A practitioner-oriented guide published by HR Tech Feed outlines data hygiene approaches for Oracle HCM Recruiting, focusing on three common data quality problems: duplicate candidate records, outdated contact information, and inconsistent skills taxonomy mapping — all of which reportedly degrade the accuracy of recruiter search results within the platform.

Hackajob Gets a New Name, UKG Adds Voice
Three HR-tech signals in one: Hackajob is reportedly operating under a new name (details undisclosed), UKG has added voice capabilities to its platform, and Linkup's August 2026 U.S. jobs report shows active listings holding nearly flat at roughly 4.96 million.

G-P Secures #1 Position in HR Technology Advice’s (HRTA) Inaugural EOR Market Report - The Malaysian Reserve
G-P (Globalization Partners) has reportedly claimed the #1 ranking in HR Technology Advice's (HRTA) first-ever Employer of Record market report — a milestone that underscores both the company's market positioning and the growing analyst scrutiny of the EOR sector.

Jack & Jill Raises £30M Series A For AI Hiring Agents - konsulteer.com
AI recruiting startup Jack & Jill has reportedly closed a £30M Series A to build and scale AI hiring agents, according to konsulteer.com. The round underscores continued investor appetite for agentic automation in talent acquisition. Key details — including lead investor, valuation, and founding team — have not been disclosed in available reporting.

Intermezzo raises $10M for payroll infrastructure - Axios
Intermezzo, a payroll infrastructure startup, has secured $10 million in new funding to expand its platform. The raise highlights continued investor appetite for modernising the foundational layer of the HR-tech stack that powers workforce payments.

New Data From Ashby Reveals EMEA Recruiters are Absorbing Rising Application Volume Without Slowing Hiring - PR Newswire
Ashby has published new proprietary data indicating that EMEA-based recruiters are successfully absorbing higher application volumes while maintaining consistent hiring velocity — a finding the company frames as evidence of ATS-driven efficiency gains in the region.

Lockheed Martin Advances Workforce Transformation with SAP SuccessFactors Solutions
Lockheed Martin has gone live on a comprehensive SAP SuccessFactors cloud HCM suite — spanning Employee Central, Payroll, Recruiting, and Onboarding — consolidating HR operations for its approximately 123,000 employees and decommissioning legacy systems, with the unified data layer cited as a foundation for the company's broader AI workforce strategy.

Cadient's Authenticity Report Finds Up to 71% of Resumes Show AI-Written Content Amid Growing Scrutiny of AI Hiring - HRTech Series
Cadient's Authenticity Report claims that up to 71% of resumes now include AI-generated content, spotlighting a growing challenge for recruiting platforms and ATS vendors to reliably distinguish AI-assisted submissions from authentically human-written ones.

Salesforce leads $166 million investment in HiBob, valuing Israeli HR tech company at $3.2 billion - calcalistech.com
Salesforce has led a $166 million funding round in HiBob, an Israeli-founded modern HRIS platform, pushing the company's valuation to $3.2 billion. The investment represents one of the largest recent bets on next-generation core HR infrastructure and underscores growing enterprise software interest in the HR technology sector.
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