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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Skedulo Raises $75 Million In Series C Surpassing 35 Million Appointments Scheduled
Skedulo, the leader in deskless productivity software, announced the company raised $75 Million in its series C, led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and celebrated the booking of 35M appointments through its platform.
Skedulo serves deskless workers who are not in a traditional office setting, representing 80% of the workforce and 2.7B people worldwide. With less than 5% of software investments focused on this segment, the market is largely underserved despite 76% of companies expecting a double-digit increase in deskless workers in the next year. Skedulo’s deskless productivity cloud allows companies to manage, engage and analyze deskless workers across a wide variety of industries, including healthcare, utilities, solar, non-profits, public sector, construction and more.
Accruent Academy Unveils New Training Model For Lucernex And Maintenance Connection Customers
Accruent, the leading provider of solutions to manage the built environment, announced that the Accruent Academy, its product training center, will provide standard essential online training to every customer account starting in July of 2021. This will initially affect the Lucernex and Maintenance Connection product lines, and more products will be incorporated over the next two years. This new model aims to streamline the training process, reduce overall training costs, and make ongoing product training more widely available – which, in turn, will help Accruent customers maximize software adoption, increase enablement, and achieve greater software ROI.
Sage Report Reveals Opportunity For HR Leaders To Make A Greater Business Impact
Sage, the market leader in cloud business management solutions, released “HR in the moment: Impact through insights,” the second report in a series looking at the changing role of HR and People teams in organizations.
Through interviews with more than 500 global HR leaders, business executives and employees in Canada, the UK, US, and Australia, Sage explored the alignment between HR and business priorities, and the role of People analytics and technology in this process.
HSB Survey Shows A Third Of Small Businesses Experience Workplace Violence
Workplace violence has occurred at one-third of small businesses, HSB reported on the results of a survey of owners and managers, and many worry the problem is getting worse.
The HSB poll by Zogby Analytics found 34 percent of the small and mid-size businesses responding had experienced at least one serious employee threat or violent incident.
Kenco Logistics Partners With Phantom Auto To Deploy Remotely Operated Forklifts
Kenco Logistics, one of North America’s leading third-party logistics (3PL) providers, is proud to be deploying Phantom Auto’s remotely operated forklift solution. Kenco will be the first North American 3PL to roll-out Phantom Auto’s remotely operated forklifts as a service to its customers. Kenco will first deploy the technology in a pilot program within the Kenco Innovation Labs, enabling Kenco’s supply chain solutions experts to identify how its customers can increase labor accessibility, help maximize workforce impact, deliver improved workplace safety, and generate greater cost savings.