A Week in HR Tech – TecHR Round-up for 27-April-2020 – Featuring Headspace, Walmart, CareerBliss, Pax8 and More…

If there’s one thing the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic has taught us, it is that the need for a more sophisticated health infrastructure (worldwide) should be the biggest goal! With countries enforcing lockdowns with the aim of getting people to stay home in an attempt to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, it’s not only businesses and economies that are trying their best to endure through these days with workplace innovations and creative methodologies, medtech companies are also innovating, with the aim of trying to help medical practitioners diagnose cases from remote locations.

Take a minute to catch more HR Technology highlights from the week that went by…

 

 

“I believe that HR technology tools can increase transparency, communication and engagement of employees. These tools offer the employee full visibility into their ‘employee account’ at HR, while also providing a view into the organizational structure, the organizational directory and the benefits that the employee can enjoy. At the same time, thanks to these tools, the input and feedback of employees can be more easily collected, such as through surveys and questionnaires.”

–Saray Ben-Meir, Chief of Staff at SQream

 

 

Headspace Launches ‘Stay Home, Stay Mindful’ Website to Offer Free Mental Health Resources During COVID-19 Pandemic

Walmart commits to hiring more than 150,000 new associates by the end of May

CareerBliss Announces Free Job Postings

Organizations Worldwide Adjust to the ‘New Normal’ of Remote Working With Help From Mitel and Google Cloud

‘Return to Work’ Solutions Will Be Key to Reviving the Global Economy

Nexthink Research Finds Employees Are Losing Two Work Weeks a Year to IT Downtime

Paychex Aligns With FinTech Providers to Help Businesses Apply for New Paycheck Protection Program Funding

Evolve IP and Pax8 Announce Partner Agreement to Provide Integrated Microsoft Teams and Cisco Voice Services

Terminal Announces New Acquisition to Identify and Hire Top Tech Talent Around the Globe

 

 

Technology companies are almost by definition product-driven. Therefore, having a strong product understanding at the leadership level is essential. This extends to sales and marketing. Understanding how product decisions get made, how product roadmaps are developed, how products are developed is essential for building successful sales & marketing teams.

Grab more insights from this TecHRSeries Interview with Elan Amir, CEO at MeasureOne

 

 

 

 

Augmented Analytics and HR: Five Reasons It is Crucial for Hiring Teams

Jonathan Crane, Chief Commercial Officer of IPsoft Shares His Thoughts on Why Artificial Intelligence Will Be The Answers to A Four-day Workweek

Aytekin Tank, Founder and CEO of JotForm Writes About The Best Ways To Use Communication and Creativity to Get Through the Current Covid-19 Crisis

Looking for some interesting Tech marketing and sales tips? Catch this podcast series for some insights!