Focus HR Solutions

SHRM | March 10, 2020

An extra 35,000 H-2B temporary-worker visas will be made available to employers for the second half of fiscal year (FY) 2020, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The H-2B guest-worker program, capped annually at 66,000 visas split evenly between the fall/winter and spring/summer seasons, is relied upon by the landscaping, hospitality and construction industries, among others. This marks the fourth year in a row that DHS has released additional H-2B visas in response to pressu...

HR Strategy

DataForest | January 05, 2022

On 4th January Sequoia, the premier people investment strategy advisor, announced the launch of DataForest. DataForest is a digital resource for total rewards and people benchmarking policies to enable HR teams to track people practices and policies against industry benchmarks. DataForest offers comprehensive insight into employee experience program data in an appealing and interactive format. The rise of hybrid work policies has increased the need to create engaging employee prog...

HR Strategy, Recruitment & Retention

CGT Staffing | February 22, 2023

On February 21, 2023, CGT Staffing, a human resource services provider, announced working with its clients to mitigate the expenses of onboarding and hiring processes in the human resource industry. It is helping especially the growing organizations with the multi-facet processes of onboarding. The hiring shifts in the marketplace are a more complicated process as they are for a short time, making it difficult for the companies to identify and recognize the qualification and onb...

Hr Analytics, Employee Experience

PRnewswire | May 10, 2023

Google Cloud and UKG, a leading provider of HR, payroll, and workforce management solutions for all people, today announced an expanded partnership to bring Google Cloud's generative AI (GenAI) capabilities into the widely adopted UKG human capital management (HCM) suites. UKG will leverage GenAI to create more powerful business insights that transform decision making and help leaders more effectively manage teams. UKG is now an early partner using Google Cloud's enterpr...