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WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT

Randstad Sourceright | January 20, 2021

Even amid record high unemployment rates across the world because of the COVID-19 pandemic, talent scarcity remains a significant challenge for businesses. As per the 2021 Talent Trends Report released by Randstad Sourceright, 40% of human capital leaders report that talent scarcity has adversely affected their organization – the most elevated all out in the previous five years. In view of a review of 850 C-suite and human capital leaders in 17 business sectors across the wo...

RECRUITMENT & RETENTION

IGB | November 25, 2020

VONQ declares that it is acquiring IGB, an leader in job distribution, programmatic advertising and recruitment analytics. VONQ, an European recruitment technology organization with past sponsorship from Randstad Innovation Fund, is an industry leader serving almost 1,000 corporate clients including Deloitte, Shell and Microsoft. This move accelerates VONQs drive into new business sectors and its energy towards turning into the worldwide pioneer in SaaS job marketing solutions. VO...

Perceptyx, Inc | July 21, 2020

Perceptyx, the leading employee survey and people analytics platform helping companies see the way forward, announced today the acquisition of the Employee Insight business of Kantar, one of the largest data, insights, and consulting companies that has become a standard bearer in employee surveys during its 25-year history. This acquisition significantly strengthens the Perceptyx platform, which makes enterprises more responsive and agile through targeted employee feedback and data-driven insigh...

Walmart | August 09, 2020

In 2001, a Walmart greeter named Betty Dukes brought a class lawsuit against her employer, on behalf of 1.5 million of her fellow employees. Dukes had started at Walmart in 1994, making $5.50 an hour. Later, armed with a college degree and ordained as a Baptist minister, she accused her employer of discriminating against female workers, and took the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Ultimately, she lost the case in a 5-to-4 decision, although as The New York Times put it, her decade-lo...