Recruiting Connection

Emissary | March 12, 2020

Emissary, the easiest way to embed texting into your recruiting process, is announcing several new partnerships and integrations with a variety of applicant tracking system vendors across the HR technology landscape. These new integrations empower recruiting teams to make communicating with candidates faster and more efficient. With an average response time of 60X vs email, texting is quickly becoming a primary recruiting channel that enables talent acquisition teams to scale up their efforts by...

Manulife | April 20, 2020

Hong Kong – Manulife Hong Kong has announced the launch of La Vie 2 and ManuCentury, two comprehensive savings plans that provide regular payouts to help customers satisfy diverse needs and goals. With guaranteed cash payments equal to 5% of the notional amount every year, the plans enable customers at different life stages to be confident of the lifetime financial stability they can secure for themselves or their future generations. Riding on the success of La Vie, one of Manulife’s...

HR STRATEGY,EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

EmployBridge and Bluecrew | November 10, 2022

EmployBridge, a leading provider of technology-enabled, light industrial workforce solutions in the United States, today announced it has completed the previously announced acquisition of Bluecrew, the first hourly W-2 workforce-as-a-service platform, from IAC (NASDAQ: IAC). The transaction brings together EmployBridge’s industry-leading offering and scale with Bluecrew’s digital-first model and technology to create a leading national workforce management platform. Und...

Microsoft | March 10, 2020

Microsoft will continue to pay vendor hourly service providers as Seattle-area office employees work from home during novel coronavirus spread in the area, it announced March 5. The company has a reduced need for the hourly workers who support its campuses in Puget Sound and northern California, including cafe staffers, shuttle bus drivers and on-site tech and AV workers. However, Microsoft pledged to provide regular pay for these workers "regardless of whether their full services are neede...