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Reworked Article: HR Tech Vendors May Be Right About AI Agents, but Buyers Don’t Trust Them Yet
Vendors pitch AI agents that run the enterprise. HR leaders just want clean data and fewer errors. The gap comes down to trust, and it’s costing vendors buyers. I spent two weeks at two Las Vegas conferences talking with dozens […]
Beyond the Feature Race: Why HCM Vendors Need to Rethink Differentiation
Artificial intelligence is reshaping enterprise software, and the pace of innovation across the technology industry is remarkable. Following our conversations with vendors at HR Tech 2026 in Las Vegas, however, two challenges stood out: technology messaging is increasingly outpacing buyer […]
Analyst Insight: Takeaways From My Recent Webinar with Insperity
In early 2026, 3Sixty partnered with Insperity to survey small and medium-sized U.S. businesses (SMBs) about how they manage HR, payroll, and benefits. As part of this survey, 3Sixty asked 524 U.S. business leaders at the manager level and above […]
Dylan Teggart on HR Tech 2026: HR Tech Trends – Moving Beyond AI Hype to Real Business Value
Another HR Tech for the books. It was good to see more energy and familiar faces this year after what was a more muted conference last year. Maybe bumping the event from September to October did really change things. After […]
7 Answers From 36 Hours at HR Tech 2026
There he goes. One of God’s own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die. Hunter S. Thompson wrote that in Fear and Loathing in Las […]
Nicole Roberts on HR Tech 2026: Bridging the Gap Between AI Innovation and Real-World Results
After three days and 15 briefings at #HRTech, I’m writing this from the gate before my red-eye home. I came to Vegas listening for the gap between what organizations buy and what they’re actually able to put to work, and […]
4 Big Questions at HR Tech
Hunter S. Thompson went to Las Vegas in March 1971 to write a glorified photo caption. Sports Illustrated wanted about 250 words on the Mint 400 desert motorcycle race. He turned in 2,500 and the magazine rejected them. I know […]
Market Alert: Paychex Brings Agentic AI to Small Business Recruiting with WISE Hire
What’s Actually Happening Paychex has introduced WISE Hire, a recruiting solution that extends WISE, the agentic AI platform Paychex announced in May 2026 as the intelligence layer across its HCM portfolio. WISE Hire uses AI agents to handle the routine, […]
SAP’s TechWolf Deal Gives SuccessFactors the Data Layer It Lacked
In June 2024, SAP, Workday and ServiceNow all put money into the same Belgian startup. On Tuesday, SAP agreed to acquire that startup outright. The price wasn’t disclosed, and SAP expects the deal to close in the fourth quarter, pending […]
4 HCM Industry Trends: Service, Compliance, Implementation, and Why 49% of Buyers Would Pay More for Better Support
If my experience helping to produce 3Sixty Insights’ recent survey and report taught me anything, it’s that AI is not always the future. The momentum we’ve all experienced as we’ve been thrust headlong into an AI-centric tomorrow has produced a […]
Reworked Article: Why Managers Can’t Tell AI Skill From an AI Shortcut
In a KPMG study, employees using AI broke into three groups: Amplifiers, Delegators, Apprentices. AI skills didn’t decide who performed the best. “Tell me about this recommendation,” a manager says to a junior associate. The employee looks at the […]
Council Guest Post: When HR Tech Becomes Business Tech, What Makes You Different?
HR tech is getting bigger, but the software in it are getting harder to tell apart. Paylocity has moved beyond HR and payroll into Finance and IT. Rippling connects HR, payroll, IT and Finance. Workday now talks about itself as […]
Market Alert: Zoominfo Launches Talent Autopilot, Pairing an AI Recruiting Agent With Its Verified Data
ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM) launched Talent Autopilot, an AI agent that helps recruiters find and reach candidates whom keyword search misses. It’s the most advanced product yet from ZoomInfo Talent Solutions, the company’s existing recruiting business, and it extends ZoomInfo’s core […]
Case Study: Retention With Intention – How Anders Built a Data-Driven Talent Strategy
Founded in St. Louis, MO in 1965, the accounting and advisory firm Anders has grown into a thriving 500-employee business serving clients across the United States. In addition to tax, audit, and assurance services, Anders has since expanded its advisory […]
Reworked Article: 6 Years of Payroll Data Show AI Is Already Breaking Job Architecture
A six-year ADP-Stanford study shows AI is repricing your job bands. Here’s how to run the same math on your own numbers Diagnosing a broken technical system pays less today than it did in 2022. Advising the client on […]
Unleash Article: Ask the Analyst – What Evidence Does HR Need to Make Reskilling the Outcome Instead of a Compromise?
UNLEASH’s “Ask The Analyst” article explores a critical workforce strategy question facing HR leaders: when workforce planning and business conditions point toward reducing headcount, what evidence can HR provide to demonstrate that reskilling and redeploying existing employees may be a […]
Who’s Watching the Front Desk?
Employee experience seemed to be mostly subtext at Qualtrics’ big announcement Back in 2022, Qualtrics launched something called CrossXM and I wrote a column asking a pretty basic question: How much do you actually have to spend on employee experience before it […]
Solutions Spotlight: The Guardian Shows How isolved Is Taking Payroll AI From Detection to Action
isolved’s introduction of The Guardian is less about creating a new category of payroll AI than providing an early example of the company’s broader Workforce Capital Management strategy. Powered by Anthropic’s Claude and accessed through the isolved Connector for Claude, […]
Video: The HCM Technology Utilization Gap – Why 87% of SMBs Aren’t Using Their Platforms to the Fullest
Many SMBs have invested in HCM technology, yet a significant majority are not using their platforms to their full potential. This video explores the findings behind the 87% utilization gap, examining why organizations often struggle to move beyond core […]








