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Q3 2026 Benefits Wrap-Up: What the Latest Data Shows on Flexibility, Mental Health, and Pay
By Andrew Mitchell, Senior Correspondent, Benefits & Total Rewards The third quarter of 2026 brought clarity to the U.S. benefits landscape. After years of experimentation during the pandemic and the post-pandemic recalibration, the data shows a workforce benefits market that has settled into a stable, evidence-based configuration. Organizations that understand what’s working — and what…
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The Rise of the Internal Talent Marketplace: How Companies Are Filling 54% of Roles From Within
By Andrew Mitchell, Senior Correspondent, Talent Strategy The internal talent marketplace has moved from HR buzzword to business imperative. According to Gartner’s 2026 Workforce Trends study, 58% of Fortune 1000 companies now operate some form of internal talent marketplace — a digital…
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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…
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Skills-Based Hiring’s Mid-Year Report Card: Mainstream in Name, Uneven in Practice
Halfway through 2026, skills-based hiring is mainstream as a label but uneven as a discipline. What the H1 data shows on adoption, real ROI, and the failure modes separating operators from aspirants.
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Q1 2025 HR Tech Funding Roundup: Despite Market Uncertainty, HR Startups Raised $2.1 Billion
Despite a broader venture capital slowdown and rising interest rates, the HR technology sector raised $2.1 billion in the first quarter of 2025 — a 15% increase over Q4 2024 and signaling sustained investor appetite for solutions that address the persistent workforce…
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CHROs Prioritize AI Value Realization and the Manager Skills Gap: What Recent Industry Research Signals
By Deputy Editor, HR Weekly — Published November 3, 2025 The Big Picture A run of recent industry research points to a critical juncture for HR technology adoption: while organizations are investing heavily in AI, the vast majority have not yet realized…
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The Great Resignation Is Over. The “Great Reallocation” Has Begun.
The Great Resignation — that ubiquitous phrase describing the massive wave of voluntary turnover that swept through 2021-2023 — has ended. Voluntary quit rates have returned to pre-pandemic levels. But what has replaced it is arguably more significant: a fundamental reallocation of…
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HR Platform Vendors Unveil AI Features at Early 2025 Conferences
What the Gartner HR Symposium, HR Tech 2025, and AIHR Summit revealed about the industry’s next wave of intelligent tools Published: October 16, 2025 By: HR Tech Desk February 2025 marked one of the most concentrated weeks for HR technology announcements in…
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Back-to-School HR: Workforce Planning for the Fall
By Andrew Mitchell, Senior Correspondent, Workforce Planning The phrase “back to school” usually conjures images of students and supplies, but for HR professionals across multiple industries, August signals a fundamentally different kind of seasonal shift. As the academic year begins, HR departments…
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The Performance Review Is Dead — Long Live Performance: How Companies Are Doing Continuous Evaluation Without Burning People Out
By Andrew Mitchell, Senior Correspondent, Performance Management The annual performance review — that awkward, once-a-year conversation where managers try to summarize an employee’s entire year of work into a rating and a set of comments — is officially dead. According to a…
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Employee Experience Platforms Are Redesigning the Workplace — Again
Author: Deputy Editor, HR Weekly The employee experience landscape is undergoing its most consequential shift in over a decade. What began as a scattered collection of point tools — engagement survey platforms, learning management systems, intranet solutions — is consolidating into unified…