When Microsoft launched Viva last year, it framed the platform as an employee portal where you might go to find out parental leave policy or other internal communications directed more generally at company policies and culture. It further reinforced this idea last month when it released Viva Goa

We just completed two years of research on cloud-based HCM (human capital management) systems and the results are striking. Among the 35+ implementations we studied, the findings are now clear: these systems do much more than clean up IT systems: they transform the employee experience. Just to be

The resignation wave caused talent shortages and internal upheaval in organizations for the past two years. In response, many organizations had to replace lost talent by hiring external talent fast and at volume to enable post-pandemic recovery and growth. However, according to several indus

Since the start of the internet, we have slowly transitioned from an analog species to a digital species: Homo Digitalis. Nowadays, for most of humanity, the internet has become the norm, and we spend many hours per day on the internet and are connected with (digital) technology. The pandemic has

Today’s labour market is tight. Because of the change of environment brought on by the pandemic, social unrest and the great resignation, business leaders and HR professionals are working to learn more about people analytics and how it can help keep them not only stay competitive but also

Today was some big news. ServiceNow, the leader in enterprise workflow and employee experience platforms, announced the acquisition of Hitch, a small player in the massive market for skills technology and talent marketplace solutions. This puts ServiceNow in direct competition with Workday, Oracle,

If the turn of 2020 didn’t teach business and HR professionals anything but one thing, it is that the world of work is vastly changing. The good news is that as reported by Sage, 72% of HR say they now have more influence in human capital management since the pandemic, with 87% of c-suit e

One of the most frustrating, tired, and archaic HR practices is performance management. Most of us have had horror stories with our “performance appraisals,” leading HR leaders to try to reinvent performance management all the time. We went from top-down cascading goals in the early 200