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HR ANALYTICS

APS | July 13, 2021

Automatic Payroll Systems, Inc. (APS), a provider of best-in-class payroll and HR technology, has established a strategic collaboration with Immediate to offer financial wellness benefits such as earned wage access to employees (EWA). The Immediate solution gives employees on-demand access to their earned but paid wages through integrations with APS' payroll technology. Based in Birmingham, Alabama, Immediate offers businesses a solution for providing a better workforce experi...

Melinda Gates | January 30, 2020

Pivotal Ventures, along Break Through Tech, SecondMuse, and "several leading social organizations," announced Jan. 28 a new city-based initiative to bring more women into tech. Melinda Gates' company Pivotal Ventures invested $50 million in Gender Equality in Tech Cities to engage women as college students, employees and founders and investors in city-based tech hubs nationwide. The initiative's goal is to speed up gender equality in the tech sphere by maximizing "the impa...

HR STRATEGY

Perceptyx | July 17, 2021

Perceptyx, the leading employee listening and people analytics platform has announced two acquisitions that will provide companies with even more dynamic feedback to fulfill post-pandemic employee expectations. Waggl, an employee feedback solution that crowdsources employee comments and suggestions in real-time, and CultureIQ, a research-backed solution for evaluating current culture and addressing culture gaps, have been acquired. According to the United States Labor Department, ...

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

Smarp | September 17, 2021

COYO, Germany, and Smarp, Finland, announced that they would merge the two SaaS companies. The combined organization will serve medium and large companies in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Finland, with clients such as Salesforce, Google, Amazon, DHL, Deutsche Bahn and E.ON. By combining Smarp's employee communications and advocacy portfolio with COYO's social intranet and employee engagement offering, the new player will address the challenges ...