Enabling Technology

Elevating Payroll

Leaders are leveraging technology to improve payroll for a dispersed workforce. By Simon Kent With employees working from more dispersed locations, under a wider variety of arrangements and with multiple…

IT is Expected to Increase Hiring in Q1

After ending the year on a low note, hiring looks much more promising at the start of the year for the tech industry.  By Zee Johnson  Manpower Group’s newly released…

Predictive Analytics Transform Hiring 

A Fortune 10 Healthcare leader hit steep hiring and business goals by leveraging integrated data to make informed decisions. By Zee Johnson Prior to 2020, many companies had already committed…

Tech Matters

A new report outlines how HR platforms are improving user experience and business outcomes. By Maribeth Sivak and Debora Card HR executives are mainly seeking an improved user experience through…

Editor’s Note: Point Taken

Point Taken Editor’s Note By Debbie Bolla, Executive Editor   Confidence. Competition. Potential. Doing what you love.   These are a few words and phrases that made a lasting impact after…

Guiding HR’s Transformation

The 2014 HRO Today Awards winners are innovating their way to strategic partnerships.   By Russ Banham   Over the past generation, the people heading up HR in many organizations…

Great HR + Great Workforce

The gathering of our annual Forum equaled great business outcomes.   By The Editors   Click here for photo spread.

2014 TekTonic Winners

Learn more about the innovators that took home trophies at the HRO Today Forum in Philadelphia.   By The Editors   Workforce Management/Compensation Winner Solution: Darwin Provider: Thomsons Online Benefits…

Pontoon Strengthens EMEA Leadership Team

New Head of Sales and SVP join the workforce solutions provider. Pontoon invests in its EMEA footprint and reach with several key appointments. The workforce solutions provider announced Tom Mason…

Tech Division – 6/3

Joberate spins off social media recruitment technology into new company Candarine. Looking to focus exclusively on its mission to help society better understand job-seeking behaviors of the global workforce, Joberate…

Getting in the game

It is possible for SMBs to leverage managed service programs. Here’s how.   By George Lanzano   Efficient utilization and management of a contingent workforce remains an area of focus…

Too Much To Manage?

It’s actually the complexity of SOW projects that make them ideal for vendor management systems.   By Peter Parks   Many organizations believe that vendor management systems (VMS) are only…

The Power to Predict

Pre-hire assessment tools that mine data
 deliver true gold: the right candidate for the job.   By Ray Bixler   In today’s war for talent, finding qualified workers is becoming…

Scientifically Shaping Careers

Organizations are using behavioral science to increase employee satisfaction, retention, and leadership potential.   By Jason Taylor   Every employee within an organization has a career arc that is referred…

Making Benefits Software Work for You

How to properly vet technology solutions for HR optimization.   By Paul Horalek   2014 brings with it a bevy of new regulatory changes and compliance measures, and these need…

Digging Deep into HR’s Data

How to get the right numbers to raise HR’s strategic profile   By Julia Mench   Chief people officers and HR directors have historically played a critical role in organizations’…

WilsonHCG Expands Global Footprint – 4/29

The recruitment process outsourcing provider mergers with UK-based CPH. With the growth of global enterprise comes the need for companies to have a global RPO partner with a central point…

“Un”Trusted Brand

CEO’s Letter    “Un”Trusted Brand   We all live in a world populated by brands. Your company is worried about your consumer or customer brand, your social responsibility brand, HR,…

Editor’s Note: Leading the Leaders

Leading the Leaders Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to steal some minutes of three veritable industry leaders who will be speaking at our HRO Today Forum in May.…

Best in Class

The finalists for our first annual CHRO of the Year awards. By The Editors For our first annual CHRO of the Year awards, HRO Today is recognizing those CHROs with…

Betting on Tech

Betting on Tech   Our annual TekTonic awards recognize innovation in human capital management. Here are the finalists.   By The Editors   More and more heads of HR are…

What’s Working in Gamification

An industry CEO offers an overview— and lessons learned from the front lines.   By Siddhesh Bhobe   Interest in gamification has accelerated in the past six months. While enterprise-wide…

Unlocking Key Issues

New research from The Hackett Group examines HR’s top priorities.   By Natalie Bression, Harry Osle, and Lynne Schneider   The pressure is mounting on HR to change the balance…

Full Integration – 4/7

Human capital management industry leader Allegis Group announced this week that it is formally combining the recruitment process outsourcing (RPO), managed services provider (MSP), and integrated talent operations of its…

SIRVA Acquires SMARTBOX – 3/18

SIRVA Worldwide, Inc., provider of relocation and moving solutions, has expanded its repertoire with the recent acquisition of SMARTBOX, a Virginia-based portable moving and storage services company.   SIRVA offers…

New Cloud HR Leadership for SAP – 3/11

SAP welcomes industry vet Mike Ettling as head of global cloud HR. Ettling will oversee the cloud for HR line of business, which includes leading cloud solutions from SuccessFactors, an…

Piloting Success

Cindy Fiedelman worked to ensure the cultural differences between American Airlines and US Airways didn’t plague the merger. Mission accomplished.   By Russ Banham   As anyone who has participated…

What’s On Your Mind?

Get your questions answered at this year’s HRO Today Forum.   By Debbie Bolla   Leading by experience: It’s a central theme of the upcoming HRO Today Forum. The conference…

Missed Connections?

How cloud-based applications give HR more control.   By Chris Wakely   Global expansion is a significant investment for businesses, and that’s why it’s crucial that relocation and onboarding goes…

Healthcare Staff Shortages?

Here’s what hospital and healthcare system managers think is happening.   By Susan Salka   Healthcare workforce researchers and analysts have been arguing for the past couple of years over…

Editor’s Note: Peer Factor

Peer Factor By Debbie Bolla Executive Editor   Who taught you to ride a bike? Shoot hoops? Bake the world’s best chocolate chip cookies? Notice my questions are around who—not…

Contingent and Complex

This growing workforce has its own set of challenges. Technology can help.    By Madeline Laurano   The rise of the independent worker is arguably the most significant trend impacting…

Celebrating with Change

The association for the HR industry marks its 10th birthday with a reflection on how the market has evolved.   By Debbie Bolla   When birthdays creep up on the…

Joining Forces

Explore the power of integrating background screening with HR technology.   By Debbie Bolla   What HR executive doesn’t want to streamline the hiring process, maintain regulatory compliance, and elevate…

Hot Deals

 The 2013 HRO market was alive with activity.   By the Editors   Reflecting back on 2013, it proved to be a growth year for the HR services industry. In…

Making the Leap

Considerations for cloud-based solutions.   By Madeline Laurano   Given the momentum around cloud-based systems, it may seem surprising that more than one third of organizations are still leveraging on-premise…

HireVue to CollaboRATE – 1/9

HireVue closed out the year strong with the announcement of acquiring CollaboRATE Inc., a spinoff from ZRG Partners, in late December. HireVue provides a beneficial digital interviewing platform and the…

Leading the Pack: 2013 SUPERSTARS

Industry standouts are recognized for blazing their own trails.   By The Editors   “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and…

Warning: Roadblocks Ahead

Has integration slowed innovation in human capital management tech?   By Brent Skinner   Integration and innovation—we hear those words all the time in this industry, especially after an acquisition.…

#HireMe

  Technology is leading the way for hiring managers to easily leverage social media to source and hire talent.   By Debbie Bolla     Searching social media sites for…

Six Degrees of Separation

  The power of connectivity wins the 2013 iTalent competion.   By Maria Cristina Feliciano     Connect6 founders Chris Hohman, Andy Estep, and Senthil Kumar were all facing the…

HRO Today 2014 Resource Guide

  We know that the readers of HRO Today magazine turn to us as the go-to resource in the industry that delivers trends, insights, and the top resources for all of their…

Feeling Bottlenecked – 9/17

What causes company bottlenecks? Bonitasoft’s recent survey of 190 business people identified the principal causes of bottlenecks in their organizations, the biggest impacts those bottlenecks create, and the moves their…