Running the financial side of a small and mid-sized business (SMB) is complex enough, but adding workforce management, benefits, and compliance to the mix stretches capacity even thinner. For many SMBs, hiring a full-time HR professional is simply financially out of reach. It may then be a structural resource or workforce issue that makes HR underdeveloped, reactive, and disconnected from overall business results. As these businesses struggle to handle the increasing complexity of HR, payroll, and benefits management, these duties often fall to CFOs, controllers, or administrators who lack the time, resources, and expertise to manage the workforce strategically. When HR responsibilities are added to an existing role, it can seem unexpected since they weren’t part of the original job description or a focus of […]
#HRTechChat: Heike Wiesner and Alastair Pride on Payroll Trends and Innovation at Unit4
In this episode of #HRTechChat, Dylan Teggart sits down with Heike Wiesner, Global Sales Growth Director HCM, and Alastair Pride, Managing Principal Consultant, of Unit4 to explore the evolving role of payroll as a strategic business driver. They discuss how cloud migration, integrated ERP systems, and innovations like Unit4’s Payroll Navigator are transforming payroll from a back-office function into a core asset for workforce planning, compliance, and employee trust. From real-time visibility to faster, smarter deployments, Heike and Alastair share how Unit4 is helping organizations simplify complexity, boost efficiency, and adapt to shifting workforce demands. If you think payroll is just about getting people paid, it’s time to think bigger. Learn more about how Unit4 can help your organization here: Unit4 HCM software for payroll […]
#HRTechChat: Meredith Reilly on Building Your Advisory Village and Scaling HR Strategically
Small businesses face growing complexity in HR, payroll, and benefits—but too often, leaders carry the burden alone. In this episode of #HRTechChat, Dylan Teggart talks with Meredith Reilly, Chief Sales Officer at isolved, about why it’s time to stop going solo. Meredith shares how modern HR demands strategic partnerships—not just tools—and how activating an “advisory village” can help leaders scale smarter. From tech fluency to cultural alignment, they break down what today’s HR advisors must bring to the table. If you’re still treating vendors as service providers, you’re missing the point. Tune in to learn how synergy, not solo effort, drives results. Our #HRTechChat Series is also available as a podcast on the following platforms: WRKdefined: https://wrkdefined.com/podcast/3sixty-insights-hrtechchat Apple iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3sixty-insights/id1555291436?itsct=podcast_box&itscg=30200 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7hXSgrFWXwvJqPbnKunztv SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-965220588 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6aDtrRPYoCIrnkeOYZRpAQ/ iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-3sixty-insights-78293678/ Amazon Music […]
Case Study: How Zions Bank & isolved Empower SMBs – A Case Study on HR, Payroll, and Growth
A 3Sixty Insights Case Study on HR, Payroll, and Growth Discover how Zions Bank partnered with isolved to help small and mid-sized businesses simplify HR, payroll, and workforce management—freeing up leaders to focus on growth. What You’ll Learn: How Zions Bank expanded beyond traditional banking How isolved simplifies compliance, payroll, and HR tasks Real-world outcomes from Zions Bank clients Benefits like time savings, reduced complexity, and stronger client loyalty “These issues weren’t just operational. They were strategic.”— Steve Stacey, SVP, Zions Bank Download the case study to see how smart partnerships drive business success.
Deel Article: How Hyqoo Scales Its Global Contractor Workforce With Deel
A new era for global contractor management This case study is based on insights from a 2025 report published by 3Sixty Insights, as part of their “Anatomy of a Decision” series. The rise of remote work has significantly reshaped the global labor market, particularly in the realm of contract employment. Staffing firms tasked with managing this decentralized workforce must now navigate complex international labor laws, ensure compliance with tax and regulatory frameworks across jurisdictions, and address concerns related to data security, time tracking, and deliverable verification. Hyqoo, a global talent cloud platform, specializes in sourcing, training, and deploying elite contract-based talent to client projects worldwide. Hyqoo trains talent in-house and maintains a curated network of top professionals, who are then matched with client projects. Its global […]
Anatomy of a Decision: How Kreg Tool Company Connected Office and Deskless Workers
Unlock the Full Story Behind Kreg Tool Company’s Internal Communications Transformation Kreg Tool Company, a legacy woodworking tools manufacturer, faced a growing communication divide between its office and manufacturing employees. Seeking to unify their workforce and deliver real-time updates, Kreg selected theEMPLOYEEapp by Engagedly to bridge the gap. In this Anatomy of a Decision report, you’ll learn how Kreg: Increased engagement and connection across deskless and office-based teams Improved communication during emergencies and critical updates Boosted adoption to over 97% of its workforce Strengthened company culture and reduced internal silos Featuring insights from Melany Stonewall, Strategic Communications Manager at Kreg, this report details the journey from problem identification to successful implementation and measurable impact. Download the Full Report
Market Alert: Insperity Launches Platform to Improve Management of Contingent Workers
As the workforce rapidly evolves, so must the platforms that support it. With its launch of Insperity Contractor Management powered by Wingspan, Insperity takes a major step forward in helping businesses modernize how they engage, manage, and support a growing base of 1099 contractors. In this Market Alert, 3Sixty Insights explores: Why contingent workers are becoming essential to modern workforce strategy How Insperity’s partnership with Wingspan addresses compliance, payments, onboarding, and benefits for contractors The value of integrating contractor management into a unified platform alongside full-time employee administration What it means for businesses navigating the future of work Download to learn more about how this platform supports: Bulk onboarding and automated 1099 processing Contractor payments with multiple options Integrated benefits and compliance tools Scalable contractor […]
Anatomy of a Decision: Beyond Borders – How deel Powers Hyqoo’s Global Contractor Platform
Discover how Hyqoo scaled its global contractor workforce with Deel’s powerful compliance and payroll infrastructure. As the remote work revolution reshapes the labor market, staffing firms like Hyqoo face complex challenges: navigating local labor laws, managing international payroll, avoiding contractor misclassification, and ensuring seamless onboarding. In this exclusive case study, learn how Hyqoo: Hires and manages 300+ contractors across Latin America, EMEA, and APAC Ensures full compliance and minimizes legal risk with Deel’s EOR/CoR solutions Delivers a superior experience to both clients and talent through responsive support Streamlined onboarding, payments, reporting, and equipment delivery—all in one platform “We’re never going back to Remote. Deel gives us the reach, reliability, and responsiveness we need to power our global business.”— Kunal Patel, Global Talent Partner at Hyqoo […]
Analyst Insight: The Fair Pay Gap – Perception, Reality, and the Growing Risk to Retention and Engagement
Payscale’s new Fair Pay Impact Report highlights an ongoing issue in the modern labor market: the growing gap between employee perceptions of fair pay and employers’ actual compensation benchmarks. The report presents compelling evidence that many employees perceive themselves as underpaid, even when their compensation meets or exceeds current market rates, leading to downstream impacts on retention, engagement, and performance. These findings reinforce the report’s argument that traditional communication strategies about pay fall short. According to Payscale, 68% of employees believe they are undercompensated despite earning wages at or above established market rates, up from 51% in 2021. These numbers have risen, even amongst a broader trend of rising salaries and enhanced transparency initiatives run by many employers. Among those employees reporting unfair pay, only […]
UKG’s AI-First Future
At its 2025 Analyst Day, UKG doubled down on its commitment to becoming an AI-first company. Unveiling a sweeping strategy designed to transform the workforce experience for both employees and employers. UKG described how the company is evolving from traditional workforce software to an AI-driven platform grounded in real-time data, extensibility, and industry-specific insight. This transformation is powered by the FleX Platform and People Fabric, which together provide a unified data architecture that fuels AI-powered workflows, intelligent recommendations, and automated task execution. A centerpiece of UKG’s AI vision is Bryte, its proprietary AI engine. Bryte is embedded throughout the platform to support a wide range of use cases: Bryte Job Genius generates job descriptions and interview guides. Paycheck AI Agent answers employee payroll questions and […]
Analyst Insight: UKG Analyst Day 2025
A Strategic Refresh and an AI-Driven Future In late May 2025, I stepped out into the warm Florida sun to join UKG’s Analyst Day event hosted in Fort Lauderdale. This closed-door session brought together leading HR technology analysts for an in-depth look at UKG’s redefined strategic vision, revamped executive leadership team, and extensive technology roadmap. Throughout the day, executives, including CEO Jennifer Morgan, Chief Product Officer Suresh Vittal, and Chief Marketing Officer Sarah Hodges, delivered a cohesive narrative around customer-centric innovation, frontline worker empowerment, and pragmatic AI integration. While this event was meant to update analysts on UKG’s products and technology, it served a dual purpose for UKG: to reintroduce itself to the HR tech world as an AI-first company that can deliver strategic business […]
reworked: Choosing HR Software Involves More Than HR
Balancing focus and flexibility, navigating the suite versus point solution debate in HR tech. A question that regularly pops up as the technology environment evolves is: Which is the better approach for HR — to put all of its eggs in one basket by focusing on a single, comprehensive tech suite, or to address each requirement with a focused point solution, such as an ATS developed by one company, a performance management platform offered by another and a payroll system provided by a third? Point solutions and suites will always need to coexist, said Ward Christman, founder of HR Tech Advisor, an HR technology advisory firm in West Chester, Pa. “No suite will ever be sufficient for all customers, and will probably be insufficient for any […]
Solutions Spotlight: Democratizing Talent Development – AI-Enhanced Coaching Solutions by CoachHub
Today, more than ever, organizations are facing significant challenges in attracting, developing, and retaining talent. Traditional learning and development (L&D) approaches are often resource-heavy and top-down, making them increasingly inadequate for meeting the evolving skill needs of today’s dynamic and distributed teams. At 3Sixty Insights, we recognize a clear shift in the industry toward advanced, scalable, and technology-driven development tools. For many companies, these tools have become central to enterprise strategy at a time when budgets are tightening and expectations are rising. CoachHub, a global digital coaching provider, has emerged as a prominent player at the crossroads of human coaching and artificial intelligence. Through its integrated platform, which combines expert human coaching with proprietary AI technology, CoachHub provides practical solutions to the challenge of scaling […]
FAMA Webinar: From Guesswork to Great Hires – June 17th @ 1pm Eastern
How AI-Powered Online Screening Helps You Hire Right the First Time Live Q&A Webinar with 3Sixty Insights, Fama, and TRAP Recruiter Tuesday, June 17th • 1 to 2pm EST The Workforce Has Changed. Has Your Hiring Process? Resumes, interviews, and background checks no longer tell the full story. Today’s candidates live online, and their digital behavior often reveals more about culture fit—and potential risk—than anything they show during the interview. Join us for a timely, no-fluff conversation on why traditional hiring methods are falling short in 2025—and what Talent Acquisition leaders can do to fix it. In this expert-led session, we’ll explore how Behavioral Intelligence is helping TA teams close hiring gaps, reduce brand and people risk, and improve quality of hire at scale. You’ll learn how: […]
isolved Press Release: isolved Launches Tailored Restaurant Solutions to Reduce Turnover, Ensure Compliance and Improve Guest Experience
The Company Strengthens its Vertical Focus with Purpose-Built Technology and Expert Services CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Rising labor costs, crippling turnover and constantly changing compliance requirements are stretching restaurant teams thin. In fact, 64% of restaurant HR leaders say their industry is facing a talent crisis and nearly three-quarters are looking for more effective ways to manage their growing workload. To meet these challenges head-on, isolved® is launching isolved People Cloud™ for Restaurants—tailored human capital management (HCM) solutions built to support quick-service restaurants (QSRs), franchises and dining establishments of all sizes. “Restaurant HR leaders are under tremendous pressure with limited time and resources to manage high turnover, wage and tip complexity and fast-changing regulations,” said Opal Wagnac, Senior Vice President, Market & […]
Beyond the Buzzwords: A More Honest Look at the Skills Crisis
Fuel50’s 2025 Skills Crisis Report aims to pinpoint the primary causes of talent misalignment in modern organizations. The report successfully punctures the illusion that companies have control over their internal talent ecosystems and tries to target the structural inertia that plagues workforce management. The report’s core insight is that organizations are operating with a false sense of security when it comes to skills visibility: “Companies think they have their skills and talent problems under control until the data proves otherwise.” 92% of organizations say they understand their workforce’s skills, yet 74% admit that lack of visibility directly impedes business performance. This disconnect between self-perception and operational reality should alarm any business leader. 3Sixty Insights found similar findings in our November 2024 benchmark report that looks […]
FAMA Press Release: New Research Shows What Hiring Teams Already Know: What They Post Is Who You’ll Get—And Now There’s Data to Help Spot It Early
LOS ANGELES, CA — May 21, 2025 — A new independent research report from 3Sixty Insights is shining a light on Fama Technologies as a critical solution for today’s evolving hiring landscape. The report examines how Fama helps companies uncover job-relevant misconduct signals before day one, bridging the gaps left by resumes, interviews, and traditional background checks. As hiring grows more complex, so does the challenge of measuring quality of hire. According to LinkedIn’s Future of Recruiting 2025 report, 89% of talent leaders say quality of hire is becoming more important, but just 25% feel confident in how their company measures it. Meanwhile, 61% believe AI will play a key role in solving that problem. The new research backs this up, showing how Fama’s AI-powered platform gives teams a clearer view into candidate fit, risk, […]
Research Note: Behavioral Intelligence in Hiring – How Fama Helps Identify Misconduct Before Day One
Executive Summary Today, nearly everyone has a visible online footprint. The average person voluntarily shares dozens of data points publicly online, sometimes with great detail. By evaluating this behavior, organizations gain insights into candidates’ cultural fit and potential risks for damaging behaviors, helping employers understand a candidate’s workplace impact before employment begins. The organizational impacts of even modest levels of employee misconduct are profound. With even a small rate of misconduct setting off a domino effect of consequences for productivity and talent retention, organizations in which just 5% of workers commit misconduct suffer a 40% reduction in productivity. These same organizations also risk losing their most valuable employees, who become 54% more likely to depart when these are the workplace conditions. Fama’s 2024 Misconduct Benchmark […]
Case Study: 15Five – A Proactive Approach to HR Transformation in a Fully Remote Organization
What You Need to Know Remote work has remained popular ever since the pandemic, making it feasible for many roles. A 2024 Gallup survey found that 28% of workers for whom it’s possible would prefer to be fully remote, and another 61% would choose a hybrid work arrangement. This adds up to a clear majority (89%) who would rather not be required to commute to an office every work day. And yet, while employees overwhelmingly prefer the logistical flexibility of remote work, it can have significant consequences for their engagement and their workplace satisfaction. The precise work arrangement an individual would choose for reasons of convenience can lead to challenges on a deeper and arguably more impactful level in some circumstances. Poor communication, feelings of […]
isolved Webinar: AI in Action – How QSRs are Getting Smarter | July 23rd @ 12:00PM Eastern
AI is no longer a futuristic concept for QSRs—it’s transforming how brands serve, staff and scale. In this exclusive session, you’ll hear from leading 3Sixty Insights analyst Dylan Teggart and isolved’s own Yutaka Takagi, who’ve studied how top restaurants are leveraging AI to solve labor challenges, optimize operations and enhance customer experiences. In this 45-minute webinar, they’ll cover: How QSRs are using AI to address staffing and operational efficiency Exclusive insights from recent industry research Real examples of AI improving speed of service and personalization What trends are emerging—and how to stay ahead of them The tools and tech QSRs are investing in right now July 23rd, 2025 @ 12:00 PM ET Learn more and register here: AI in Action – How QSRs are Getting Smarter



