Many people recognize that a smart phone makes the average Joe resemble a super-intelligent android. With the phone, Joe can do advanced math, tell you the … Read more
Tech Insights: Operations vs. HR, or Why Old Techniques Still Have Value
I recently bumped into software aimed at call center operations. Normally, that is outside my scope, however this software, Snowfly, was all about … Read more
The Unintended Consequences When Workers Bring Their Devices to Work
By Paul Starkman At the top of the list of risks guaranteed to give HR a headache this year is employee use of personal technology for work. It was only a … Read more
Good HR Tech Always Makes For a Happy Employee
Technology is a primary touchpoint for all sorts of HR functions in today’s companies: time tracking, benefit enrollment, payroll, performance … Read more
Tech Insights: How Dirty Data Is Slowing Down Good HR Analytics
All the great new analytics tools work from the assumption that we have clean data. Even when we just do a simple analysis, such as “employees by … Read more
Tech Insights: Finding Value in Social — If HR Can Learn to Manage It
You can’t walk through an HR trade show without bumping into vendors selling software that has some kind of “social” capability. BraveNewTalent offers a … Read more
The Message Behind the Demise of Aon Hewitt Canada’s Rewards Practice
Aon Hewitt has laid-off its reward consultants in Canada while retaining other parts of its HR consulting practice. While this sort of thing is common in … Read more
Tech Insights: Being Relevant in HR means You Need to Start Loving APIs
Before HR, I worked in IT so I have a residual appreciation of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). APIs are the little modules that help one program … Read more
Weekly Wrap: How IBM Kenexa is Jumping Big Time Into Big Data
Last month, I was in Orlando at the annual IBM Connect conference. Last year, this event was the “coming out” party for Kenexa, which had just … Read more
Want to Hire Female Technology Professionals? So Does Everybody Else
Are there women in tech? Yes, but the truth is, not many. Certainly nowhere near their proportion to women in the workforce. Women are barely a quarter of … Read more