Hiring and firing are hot! Since the start of the pandemic, the state of the labor market has been a topic of constant attention: where can we find enough people? Where can we find people with the right skills sets and certifications? Why are people quitting and not coming back to work? Do they even…
Before Unleash even started… Unleash asked me to be a judge and evaluate the 30 submissions for the startup competition. All participants shared a short video and a link to their website. Some of them I knew, most of them I didn’t. I was asked to judge them on several aspects, like technology, functionality, applicability…
HR Tech Funding fell off a cliff this summer I already gave you some hints about the direction of funding rounds, when I noticed that the outlook wasn’t pretty. After two years of sheer unlimited funding rounds, investors tightened their purse strings, and the money dried up. That was most evident in July, when company…
Back in 2018, I wrote a blockchain series and looked at several HR use cases: payroll, personal data and hiring. The first article includes a blockchain primer, so if you need an update, read that first. I finished the series with a look ahead, where I discussed reality vs the hype, and potential adoption problems…
I just came home from my vacation: I took my nephew on a graduation trip, – although two years later because of the pandemic – and he chose New York. This was his first time in North America. I’ve been to New York many times, and didn’t expect it to be a new experience. But…
What do supermarkets workers in Ireland, health care workers in California and Canada and retail employees in England have in common? Unfortunately, they all experienced errors in their payslips this year because their companies switched to a new payroll. And it wasn’t pretty: many employees were unable to pay their bills. And that leads to…
How it Started With over $12B in funding, 2021 was the best year for HR Tech ever. And at the beginning of the year, overall Global Funding was still strong. But then the war in Ukraine started and that signaled the end of the global funding spree, as you can see below. How it’s going…
Before we dive into the future of learning … Remember my Learning poll? It received just 54 votes, so a bit too few to derive any generic conclusion. I’d say we like online learning, but we also value human interaction. The good news is that technology can offer the best of both worlds: online, self-paced…
I had a lovely surprise today – BizTech magazine put me on the 2021 list of the Top 30 Small Business IT Influencers. Take a look at the article to discover who else made the list. The list provides a good variety of thought leaders that cover all aspects of business. And the quote “The…
This summer I attended a Workday partnership event where I had the pleasure of meeting Petros Dermetzis, Executive Vice-President of Development at Workday. He spoke to us about the birth of ERP applications, how they evolved over the years, and what happens when vendors can start over in the cloud. On the topic of updates,…
Everyone is getting ready for HRTech Conference in Las Vegas and HRTech World in Paris and that means nice materials are landing in my Inbox every day! Today’s infographic is from Oracle and it contains some interesting numbers on HCM in the cloud.
It’s October! For people in HR that means making the difficult decision to go to the HR Tech Conference in Las Vegas or to attend HR Tech World Congress in Paris. Once you’re on the road, take a good look around in the airports that you visit, because there’s a new kind of ads being…
