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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Udacity Builds Stronger Tech Talent Pipeline With Pledge To Equality Graduates
Udacity, the online learning and talent transformation platform powering the careers of the future, announced the completion of its Pledge to Equality Scholarship program. 730 recipients completed more than 1,100 projects as part of their coursework, and 7 graduates have been hired as Udacity interns across different departments including Marketing and Engineering.
Clarabridge And Five9 Partner To Provide Industry-Leading Conversation Intelligence For The Contact Center
Industry-leading provider of AI-powered text and speech analytics Clarabridge, Inc has joined Five9’s ISV Partner Program, a leading provider of the intelligent cloud contact center.
Clarabridge’s innovative conversational AI with natural language understanding is specifically tuned for the diversity of customer experience conversations across industries to uncover actionable insights that improve customer loyalty, reduce operational costs, and drive contact center efficiency. The partnership with Five9 enables an integrated offering that can capture the richness of customer feedback with the convenience of a cloud contact center solution that lets you know exactly how your customer experience program is performing.
Simpplr Raises $32 Million To Amplify Employee Engagement As Teams Adapt To The Hybrid Office
Simpplr, an employee communications and enablement platform, announces that it has secured $32 million in Series C funding. The investment will accelerate Simpplr’s growth and development of a unified employee communications platform to help global companies drive employee engagement. The round was led by investor Tola Capital, with repeat investments from Norwest Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and George Still Ventures. Eddie Kang, Principal with Tola Capital, joined the board.
WorkJam Unveils The Next Generation Of Its Frontline Digital Workplace: WorkJam Everywhere
WorkJam, a leading Digital Workplace for organizations with frontline employees, announces the next evolution of its Frontline Digital Workplace Platform with the release of WorkJam Everywhere. With WorkJam Everywhere, businesses now have the benefit of both flexibility and choice of where and in which systems they would like to deliver WorkJam’s functionality to end users — including varying delivery methods from region to region, business unit to business unit, and role to role. The evolution provides IT with delivery options, while Human Resources, Operations, Training, and Internal Communications leaders benefit from the breakthrough productivity and retention rates made possible with frontline workforce orchestration.
Eightfold AI And Checkr Team Up To Create An End-To-End Solution To Make Hiring More Efficient And Fair
Eightfold AI, the provider of the Talent Intelligence Platform, and Checkr, Inc., the leading technology company in the background check industry, announced they are partnering to create a solution that helps employers hire based on qualifications, key attributes, skills, and traits – all in one single interface.