Latest Research: Market Alert: Paylocity Expands Its Suite of Services and Solutions Last week, Paylocity, a leading cloud human capital management (HCM) and payroll software company, expanded its suite of services and solutions with the introduction of two new products. Employee Voice and Recognition & Rewards may both be broadly categorized as employee engagement offerings, but each meets a distinct and critical need for organizations aiming to attract and retain top talent and maintain a competitive edge with the modern workforce. UKG Press Release – UKG One View Earns Industry Praise for Groundbreaking Multi-country Payroll Visibility, Simplicity The success of UKG One View is being celebrated this week at the UKG Aspire customer conference. The first-of-its kind technology-led experience extends the strength of the UKG […]
Continue readingMonthly Research Recap | October 2023
Upcoming Events: Webinar: Performance Management Today | November 20, 2023 @ 2pm EST Those attending this Performance Management Today webinar will hear about advances in this HR process area like check-ins, continuous performance management and having the process encompass employee career goals. That said, the webinar will focus even more on newer and less obvious considerations for designing a very modern PM process, some of which our presenter had a role in originating and broadly syndicating. Webinar: HR Planning for FY24: Business as Unusual | Thursday, November 16, 2023, 10:00am – 11:00am PST Join this Q&A session to hear from organizational agility expert and industry analyst, advisor and influencer Steve Goldberg on how to enact, enable and embrace change at your company – regardless of […]
Continue readingAnalyst Insight: Talent Intelligence Fundamentally Shifts How Organizations Should Measure Success
As 2023 rang in, so did the hype over artificial intelligence, particularly with generative AI (such as ChatGPT). Seemingly overnight, the long-gathering buzz surrounding AI’s applicability not only to the world of work, but also to business and everything else, became nearly deafening. AI has become seemingly pertinent to just about everything — and it probably is. As more industries begin to realize the opportunities this rapidly developing technology presents to their operations and bottom lines, questions abound. Front-and-center among them is: where to start? In human capital management (HCM), the answer is, just about anywhere. We see vendors applying AI to their solutions for payroll, scheduling, employee self-service, performance management, benefits administration — the list goes on. Name a subdomain of HCM, and there’s […]
Continue readingAnatomy of a Decision: Box Elects to Leverage Eightfold’s Ai- Enabled Talent Acquisition Solution to Facilitate Candidate Rediscovery
What You Need to Know Enterprises have choices when it comes to vendors that offer a single-platform solution and promise the ability to hire better candidates faster. By now, most have realized the value of investing in integrated platforms, software and apps to advance HR functions. An enterprise’s platform could boast all the bells and whistles — but is it integrating with its tools exactly the way the company needs to meet its human capital management (HCM) objectives? Are its systems leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to enable more holistic recruitment processes? If not, how does a business embark on seeking, evaluating, selecting and implementing the right solution that can integrate with its existing components? 3Sixty Insights explores how file sharing provider Box embarked on a […]
Continue readingCase Study Vignette: Harri – Helping a Private Equity Fund Protect and Grow the Value of Its Restaurant Investments
Private equity can be a tough business. So is the restaurant industry. Imagine combining the two. A private equity firm first and foremost must have wealth. And it must be adept at conserving and building that wealth. Those are the main criteria for success. As for running a restaurant, the margins can be thin. This is why, for any restaurant, among the most time-consuming activities (and greatest operational costs) are those associated with employing people effectively and compliantly. Scheduling is a big one here. Putting together employees’ hours is another. With non-exempt staff’s fluctuating hours and toggling between workweeks considered part-time and full-time under the law, benefits administration can be a big challenge, too. At a restaurant, these operational costs have a way of easily […]
Continue readingAnatomy of a Decision: Harri’s Consultative, Collaborative Approach Equips Restaurants to Manage Growth and Support Employee Experience
What You Need to Know Growth and expansion are priority goals for restaurant owners. With these goals come many questions about how to grow. How do I manage multiple locations? How do I communicate directly with employees? How do I streamline employee onboarding? How do I remain compliant with labor regulations in each state? How do I make it easy for employees to see schedules, trade shifts, and communicate with managers? Finding efficiencies and creating repeatable processes for performance management contribute to answering all of these questions and to driving a restaurant business toward future growth. 3Sixty Insights’ discussions with users of Harri show that the vendor and its HCM software suite help keep restaurants running smoothly and consistently from one location to hundreds and […]
Continue reading#HRTechChat: Navigating the Talent Shortage: A Creative Approach to Skills-Based Hiring
Businesses face a growing challenge: the talent shortage. The traditional ways of recruiting and hiring no longer suffice in a world where the working-age population is shrinking, and the gap between available talent and job openings is widening. To shed light on this issue, we turn to recent research from the Burning Glass Institute and a fascinating conversation with Pamela Stroko about innovative solutions. Here are some of the main themes of our conversation: The Shrinking Workforce The working-age population has been steadily declining, with little to no growth. Starting in 2012, we witnessed a meager 0.5% growth in the working-age population, and this rate slowed to 0.2% from 2017 onwards. This trend is expected to persist until at least 2030, painting a grim picture […]
Continue reading#HRTechChat: A Deep-Dive Into PandoLogic Owner Veritone’s Acquisition of Broadbean
At the very tail end of May 2023, the enterprise artificial intelligence software and services vendor Veritone announced the acquisition of Broadbean, a global recruitment technology company. Given that PandoLogic joined the family of Veritone companies in mid-summer 2021, we invited an expert each from PandoLogic and Broadbean to appear on the #HRTechChat video podcast and discuss synergies between the two now-Veritone companies. Joining us for this episode were Faisel Samseer, director of partnerships, development and growth for Broadbean, and Nikos Livadas, vice president of partner development for PandoLogic. Viewers (and listeners at the many audio podcast platforms where #HRTechChat syndicates) know we typically have in-depth discussions and communication with our guests in the “virtual greenroom” in the run-up to each episode. This episode is […]
Continue readingCase Study: Rutherford Investment Company Partners with isolved to Evolve from Operational to Strategic HR
What You Need to Know We often discuss digitization as a way to facilitate operational HR—the nitty gritty fundamentals, the necessities, the boxes that need to be checked. The assumption inherent in these conversations is that greasing the path for these compliance-oriented tasks will free up time for strategic HR, reducing administrative tedium in favor of higher-level, people-oriented efforts. This journey to HCM maturity is a long series of steps, each at once meaningful and small. It is a path to success we’ve seen unfold time and time again with users of isolved. Put these small steps aside, however. Consider also that it’s so often the small things that define the employee experience, always a priority no matter where an organization is in its HCM […]
Continue readingInsperity Blog – 5 ways a PEO can serve as a strategic partner for midsize businesses
There are many misconceptions about professional employer organizations (PEOs). Often, one of them is that PEOs only deliver value for smaller businesses. But what about PEOs for midsize businesses with operational challenges? These business owners may ask: What value does a PEO bring to midsize businesses? How can a PEO serve as a strategic partner for growing businesses? How can midsize businesses benefit from PEOs? Once businesses reach the 50-employee threshold, expand into other states and municipalities or hire remote employees who reside elsewhere, they can be subject to more legal and regulatory complexities. Other challenges of growing organizations can also impede, such as business owners’ focus on serving customers and not having sufficient time to allocate toward HR responsibilities. Often, when a business scales up, HR […]
Continue readingAnatomy of a Decision: Frontline Employee Experience Platform Harri Drives Operational and Financial Excellence for Jersey Mike’s Subs
What You Need to Know At what point does a business pause to consider the costs of managing HR processes on paper and in digital spreadsheets? Where does the push come from to trigger an analysis of manual processes vs. automation? In many cases, manual processes work just fine and a ‘don’t fix it if it ain’t broke’ perspective leaves those processes neglected until a problem arises. Because something is working, however, doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s efficient. What if transitioning human capital management (HCM) processes from manual to automated can save a significant amount of time, money, and frustration for your business? HCM automation enables swift execution of scheduling and recruiting processes that currently consume large chunks of time for businesses. Automation alleviates complex […]
Continue readingProfessional Employer Organizations: Getting From Operational to Strategic
When it comes to HR, most small businesses reach a point of reckoning. They finally realize they can’t wing it anymore, whether that be with accidental HR people or inadequate technology — or, for the latter, none at all beyond email, perhaps a shared drive, and standard-issue spreadsheet software. (Believe us when we say, even well past the second decade of the 21st century, we still see it all in the interviews 3Sixty Insights conducts with users….) Reaching their senses, small businesses eventually seek structure for all the complexities and red tape associated with the management of the employment of people. This is when they may call up the services of a typical professional employer organization. Most of the time, these employers are stretched as […]
Continue reading#HRTechChat: Marta Weinstock, Senior Director of Operations at Rutherford Investment Company
Marta Weinstock, my guest for this episode of the #HRTechChat video podcast, is senior director of operations at California-based Rutherford Investment Company. Part of her charter at Rutherford Investments is to get human capital management as efficient as possible. Under the aegis of her leadership and the help of isolved, the employer’s journey along the road to HCM maturity has been sweeping and inspiring. With isolved, Marta has brought order to a previously dysfunctional, disorganized HR ecosystem. Leading the charge for digital transformation from the inside, Marta has witnessed first-hand not only the excellent capabilities found in isolved’s software-as-a-service People Cloud™, but also the highly attentive approach of isolved’s HR services team. Our #HRTechChat Series is also available as a podcast on the following platforms: […]
Continue reading#HRTechChat: James Galvin, CEO and Co-Founder of Starcircle
The talent acquisition of today is nonlinear. By this, we mean it’s all one thing, not a siloed process with many activities taking place in an orderly fashion or readily apparent, repeatable sequence. James Galvin should know. Our guest for this episode of the #HRTechChat video podcast, James is CEO and co-founder of Starcircle, a Cork, Ireland–headquartered vendor of cloud software and services designed to result in truly effective talent acquisition campaigns by looking at these as holistic efforts and considering sourcing first, and not last — an idea embodied in a term Starcircle uses: long-tail talent. Take artificial intelligence, for example. It’s difficult to discuss modern talent acquisition without mentioning AI. This is because AI has entered the fray of talent acquisition for good. […]
Continue readingCase Study Vignette: Insperity Partners with CEO of Quickly Expanding Midmarket Client PRS to Help Him Achieve Strategic Plan for the Workforce
With swift organizational growth come challenges and revelations along the way that, together, are the ingredients in a recipe that can elevate conventional conceptions of what a professional employer organization (PEO) can be. The story at PRS is that tale: a small organization growing rapidly in its headcount to become a midmarket employer and, along the way, turning to Insperity, the PEO that would be able to help PRS manage this growth from the standpoint of operational HR and help executive leadership realize its greater vision for their people. PRS: Growing with Insperity In considering traditional views of why an organization would turn to a PEO, Joe Getch, CEO of PRS, says, “I think a lot of people might think of a PEO as a […]
Continue reading#HRTechChat with Pamela Stroko: Challenges and the Role of HR Leaders in Curating Culture
Welcome back to another episode of #HRTechChat, the Podcast where we explore the latest trends, innovations, and strategies in the ever-evolving world of HR technology. I’m your host, Jennifer Dole. And on today’s show, we have a very special guest joining us again, someone who has made a significant impact in the HR tech landscape with her expertise and thought leadership. She’s a trailblazer, she’s an innovator, and she’s a true advocate for leveraging technology to drive positive change in the workplace. Welcome back, Pamela. In this episode, we delve into the challenges that HR leaders face. The job market and talent shortage are hot topics in the news, with economic factors and uncertainties impacting companies’ hiring strategies. As Pamela points out, the predicted recession […]
Continue reading3Sixty Insights Monthly Research Recap | June 2023
Latest Research: Research Note: The Cloud Connectors – Asking the Right Questions and Getting From Here to There With a Sound Integration Strategy 3Sixty Insights spoke at length with subject matter experts at The Cloud Connectors. Contrary to what buyers may have been told, solution providers have far from solved the challenges innate to cloud-to-cloud integration. This Research Note explains why vendors of technology for HCM must carry out an integration strategy that lasts the full lifecycle of their software deployments. Research Note: The Professional Employer Organization: Operational Solution and Strategic Partner for HR Departments in the Midmarket Historically, professional employer organizations (PEOs) must combat the notion that they’re mostly just for small businesses looking to solve for tactical needs in HR. This research note […]
Continue readingAnalyst Insight: Rolebot – Helping Employers Engage with Passive Talent — the Best Talent — at Scale
What is passive talent? They are defined as high-performing already-employed people who are not actively seeking a new job. Ideally, however, your recruiters will actively seek out passive talent in ways that get them to change their mind and consider making a move. Why? The research shows that passive talent tends to perform better in their jobs. To reach and attract passive talent, your recruiters will need the latest tools available: artificial intelligence and additional innovations in the technology for talent acquisition. Applied correctly, these tools are the deciding factors today enabling organizations to beat their competition in hiring from the passive talent pool. This Analyst Insight dives into the subject — specifically: A survey by 3Sixty Insights, shared with Rolebot’s and 3Sixty Insights’ respective […]
Continue reading#HRTechChat: Maximizing HR Economics with Maria Scarangella: Unleashing the Power of HR Technology
Welcome to the #HRTechChat podcast, where we delve into the realm of human resources and explore the latest trends and innovations in HR technology. In this episode, we had the pleasure of hosting Maria Scarangella, a talent strategist, executive coach, and consultant, who shared her valuable insights and experiences in HR economics and its impact on organizations. Understanding HR Economics: According to Maria, HR economics serves as a decision-making framework, guiding investments in people to maximize returns. In today’s complex business landscape, where organizations face overwhelming changes, having a structured approach to decision-making becomes crucial. By aligning HR strategy with organizational goals and leveraging data, HR leaders can make efficient and effective decisions that drive results. Ultimately, the goal is to deliver value to customers […]
Continue reading#HRTechChat: Megan Coen, Vice President of HR Services at isolved
We talk a lot about the technology for human capital management. Amidst all the understandable hubbub, you’d think we’d find a panacea in the state of the art in technology for HCM. Today’s technology for HCM is indeed a marvel, after all, in its capabilities and in the promise it holds. It’s a promise not only for highly engaged people leaders looking to use the latest and greatest cloud software, but also for HR departments that could really just use some help in solving for basic needs. The idea that HR departments today can succeed with the help of highly capable technology alone is tempting to believe. In a way, that’s because it’s half true. Yes, it’s a welcome relief to automate operational processes. Yes, […]
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