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WorkJam | January 13, 2020

WorkJam, the world’s leading digital workplace for frontline employees, announced today the release of its new, next-generation Task Management module, enabling employers to effectively manage the operations and experience for their frontline workforce. Task management has historically been either a manual or siloed function, facilitated by outdated and overburdened systems, creating barriers to true operational excellence and obstacles for developing the optimal employee experience. WorkJ...

Justworks | April 03, 2020

Justworks, the nation's fastest-growing HR technology company, announced the launch of a new tool to help its customers navigate the COVID-19-related paid leave newly mandated by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). Congress passed the FFCRA in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Its paid leave provisions went into effect on April 1, 2020. Small businesses across the country are already using the tool to schedule and provide paid leave to their employees who have been impacted...

Shopify | January 29, 2020

Ottawa-based tech firm Shopify has announced it is opening its first permanent office in Vancouver and set to hire 1,000 workers later this year. The new office will focus on research and software development, with the company planning to hire backend developers, data engineers, mobile developers, web developers, product designers and product managers. Last year, Shopify’s share of R&D expenditure across Canada’s professional, scientific and technical services sector was nine per...

HR ANALYTICS

shrm | May 26, 2021

Companies are expected to invest in technology applications that will transform HR and employee processes, which in turn will reshape how work is done. Gartner predicts companies worldwide will spend $4.1 trillion this year on information technology, which is an 8.4 percent increase from 2020. some of that investment will likely be to accommodate the growing number of remote workers and employees in hybrid work arrangements (those who spend two or three days at work and the other ...