HR Technology Highlights –> A TecHRseries Round-Up For 19-October-2020: Featuring Verizon Media, Bank of America, Workday, Mastercard and more!
While more and more companies are working on strengthening their remote work policies, there are several challenges that have come to the fore that requires the right leadership, balance of tools and tech and strategies to optimize processes and boost desirable business outcomes.
As the extended shift to remote work continues, with many companies like Deloitte choosing to shut four of its UK offices given how most of the staff has shifted to remote work, while others struggle to break organizational silos while trying to ensure a constant ambiance of learning despite staff being remote.
Catch more in these latest weekly HR Tech highlights!
HR Tech Quote-of-the-week!
2020 has shown us that you can’t plan for every contingency and that it’s much more important to develop an agile organization with a culture that encourages experimentation and learning. At Fuze, we have been focusing on enabling our employees to act on those values and make them an integral aspect of how we approach our work.
–Brian Powers, VP of Talent Acquisition and Development at Fuze
Top HR Tech News of the week
- Verizon Media Launches a New Educational Platform Designed to Help Companies Build Empathetic Workplaces
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New Limeade Study Reveals Troubling Impact of COVID-19 on the Employee Experience
- Obsidian Delivers Industry-First Continuous Security Solution for Workday
- Volkswagen Group of America Deploys Appian Workforce Safety Solution to Support the Phased Return of its Workforce
- Booz Allen Launches SnapAttack™, a Cloud-Based Purple Teaming Platform
- Workforce Insight Acquires Hive Tech HR
- Crayon Expands Strategic Partnership With Workplace From Facebook
- RingCentral Announces Expansion of RingCentral Global Office Across Six Continents
- Gartner Identifies Three Dimensions That Define The New Employer-Employee Relationship
- Paycor Names Veteran Technology Company Attorney Alice Geene as New Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel
- Betterworks Offers First Interactive OKR Master Certification
- HP Study Unveils the Rise of the ‘Empowered Employee’
- IBM Advances Cloud Pak for Security to Manage Threats Across Tools, Teams & Clouds
- Reflektive Launches Calibration to Streamline Processes and Ensure Fairness
- Beamery Completes Integration Certification and Joins Cornerstone Edge Marketplace
- Eightfold.ai to Modernize Booking.com’s Global Talent Acquisition Processes
- Bullhorn and GermanPersonnel Announce Partnership to Offer Quality, Choice, and True Cloud Scalability to DACH Recruitment Agencies
- Randstad Sourceright Appoints Michael Smith As New Global CEO
- Workday Talent Marketplace Delivers Skills-based Talent Matching to Drive Greater Agility
- Mastercard and Stride Team Up to Bring Portable Benefits to Gig and Independent Workers
- IBM Study: COVID-19 is Accelerating the Skills Gap and Raising Employee Expectations of Their Employers
- Cornerstone and ServiceNow Integrate to Promote Continuous Workplace Learning
HR Tech QnA with the Expert
Before the pandemic up-ended how we work, Drift had a very “in-office” culture — and it was intentional. Our founder and CEO had experimented with a hybrid culture in the past and felt like inevitably those who were remote would miss out on key information, couldn’t fully appreciate the culture and weren’t able to easily relate to and communicate with their co-workers.
When the pandemic hit and our office was forced to work remotely in March, we had to quickly transition our culture – and our nearly 400 employees – to meet the new demands of remote work. Part of this effort has been translating our rituals to new, virtual platforms. We held our 2020 Second-Half Kickoff event, virtual, we still make sure that “Monday Metrics” and “Friday Show and Tell” still occur weekly — and our weekly “Inside Drift” newsletter keeps everyone informed on important company happenings, future events, and includes fun pictures of our teams working from home.
Top Articles on Employee Benefits, Mental Health at the Workplace and The Future of HR and Work!
- Best Practices to Keep in Mind When Designing Employee Training Courses
- Evolution of Corporate Group and Voluntary Employee Benefits Software
- Enhancing Mental Health Awareness at the Workplace
- Remote Control: How to Foster a Culture of Learning While Working From Home
- The Now Normal of Work and Beyond: Tech and the Future of HR
- 5 Tips to Integrate HR and IT Ops for Better Efficiency and Security
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