Section archive
Category: HR Technology
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Year-End Performance Review Software Market Consolidation Continues
The performance review and management software market is consolidating at a pace that mirrors the broader HR technology sector, but with a particular intensity driven by the disruption that AI-native platforms are bringing to established vendors. As the fourth quarter of 2025…
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Employee Wellness Programs Get AI Makeover for 2026
The employee wellness industry, long characterized by static benefit catalogs and one-size-fits-all wellness platforms, is undergoing its most significant transformation since the category’s inception in the 1980s. As organizations prepare for 2026, the dominant trend reshaping employee wellness programs is artificial intelligence…
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AI-Powered Compensation Benchmarking Goes Real-Time
The compensation benchmarking landscape is undergoing a transformation that could reshape how HR leaders set pay for the next decade. As Q4 closes in on 2025, a growing cohort of HR technology vendors is moving beyond annual or quarterly salary surveys to…
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November 2025 Employee Experience Trends: The Personalization Imperative in Post-Pandemic Work
By November 2025, the employee experience (EX) category had evolved from a buzzword into a measurable discipline. Organizations that treated EX as a programmatic function — with defined metrics, owner accountability, and technology enablement — reported 28% higher engagement and 22% lower…
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October 2025 Compensations Technology Trends: Real-Time Market Pricing and Pay Equity
By October 2025, compensation technology had moved from annual salary surveys to real-time market pricing, and from broad pay bands to individualized, data-driven compensation decisions. The drivers were pay transparency laws, AI-powered analytics, and employee expectations for fairness and competitiveness. ## Real-Time…
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Q3 2025 HR Tech Funding Recap: Where the Money Is Going in People Technology
Venture capital funding for people technology slowed significantly in 2023-2024 after the 2021 peak, but by the third quarter of 2025, it was clear that capital was returning to the sector — albeit with more selectivity. Total HR tech funding in Q3…
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September 2025 HR Tech Acquisition Wave: How Consolidation Is Reshaping the Industry
September 2025 saw HR technology M&A activity reach its highest level in three years, with deals totaling over $4 billion announced in the first three weeks of the month. The wave of acquisitions was driven by strategic buyers — primarily legacy HCM…
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July 2025 HR Tech Funding Q2 2025: The AI Wave Continues
The second quarter of 2025 saw HR technology funding reach $3.8 billion across 142 deals, a 15% increase from Q1 2025 and the highest quarterly total since Q4 2022. AI-native companies captured 62% of total funding, and deal activity was concentrated in…
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July 2025 DEITech Roundup: Tools and Platforms Transforming Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
By July 2025, DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging) had evolved from a cultural initiative to a data-driven strategic function. The tools and platforms supporting DEIB work had matured significantly, moving from basic demographic dashboards to predictive analytics and action-oriented insights. ##…
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HR Analytics in 2025: The Rise of Predictive People Analytics and What It Means for Workforce Strategy
By mid-2025, HR analytics had crossed a critical threshold: predictive analytics moved from boardroom presentation to day-to-day operational tool. Organizations that once described their people data as “descriptive” (what happened) and “diagnostic” (why it happened) were now routinely using predictive models to…