Welcome to the HR Tech Roundup. We have gathered the top HR trends for 2021 with different HR categories like Employee Engagement, e-Learning, Training and Development, Employee wellness, Career Development and Artificial Intelligence.
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UKG Honors Technology And Services Partners Of The Year
UKG, a leading global provider of human capital management (HCM), payroll, HR service delivery, and workforce management solutions, announced the recipients of its annual Technology and Services Partners of the Year awards.
African Leadership Group Leverages AWS To Power New Recruitment Platform For Hiring Diverse Top Talent
African Leadership Group (ALG) announced a commitment to create a scalable solution for connecting highly skilled, diverse global talent to in-demand technical careers. ALG’s mission is to transform Africa by identifying, training, and connecting Africa’s top talent to employment opportunity. ALG will leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) technology to expand ALG’s reach to on-board millions of talented individuals in Africa, Asia, Latin America, North America, and Europe and match them with career opportunities. This will enable global companies to access new technology talent in areas like full stack software engineering, cloud computing, data science, product management, cybersecurity, machine learning, AR/VR, and UX/UI design, and at the same time build more diverse and agile technology teams.
AWS Announces Two New Initiatives That Make Machine Learning More Accessible
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. company, announced two new initiatives designed to make machine learning more accessible for anyone interested in learning and experimenting with the technology. The AWS AI & ML Scholarship is a new education and scholarship program aimed at preparing underrepresented and underserved students globally for careers in machine learning. The program uses AWS DeepRacer and the new AWS DeepRacer Student League to teach students foundational machine learning concepts by giving them hands-on experience training machine learning models for autonomous race cars, while providing educational content centered on machine learning fundamentals. AWS is further increasing access to machine learning through Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab, which gives everyone access to a no-cost version of Amazon SageMaker—an AWS service that helps customers build, train, and deploy machine learning models.
Enboarder Welcomes Veteran HR Executive Laura Lee Gentry As Chief People Officer
Enboarder, the world’s only People Activation Platform designed to inspire action and truly engage employees, enabling companies to transform their people programs into simple, science-based, human-centric journeys, announced the expansion of its leadership team by appointing Laura Lee Gentry as Chief People Officer.
Calendly Bolsters Vision For Supporting The Flexible Workforce With Meeting Polls
As part of its vision to offer workers more meeting tools to conveniently connect and collaborate, Calendly, the modern scheduling platform for high-performing teams and individuals, introduced Meeting Polls, a new all-in-one tool giving users the ability to poll and vote on preferred meeting times. Users can poll attendees outside or within their organization to easily identify the most popular time to meet while accommodating personal preferences and time zones when scheduling with three or more people.
WorkForce Software Named Gold Winner In The Most Innovative Company Of The Year Best In Biz Awards 2021
Today, the first global provider of integrated employee experience and workforce management solutions, WorkForce Software, announces it has been named the Gold Winner in The Most Innovative Company of the Year – medium sized businesses category of the Best in Biz Awards 2021, the only independent business awards program judged each year by prominent editors and reporters from top-tier publications in North America.
Oyster Launches Oyster For Contractors To Make It Easy For Companies To Hire, Onboard, And Pay Contractors All Over The World
Oyster, the company that makes hiring people around the world compliant, human, and delightful is helping companies and contractors to work together quicker and easier than ever before. Oyster for Contractors covers the essential needs for compliant contracts, fast e-signatures, accurate payouts, and tax form collection all in one place.
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