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Understanding the role of HR and security in protecting sensitive data The human resources department is one of the crown jewels of any organization, housing some of the most sensitive and private information. Cybercriminals frequently target HR with t… Continue reading HR and Security in the Era of Cyberattacks
Jobvite, the company that was once an early mover in leveraging social networks to help source job opportunities and find interesting candidates for openings, is today announcing two big moves to double down on its ambition to build a bigger platform for recruitment and applicant tracking. The company has picked up an investment of over […] Continue reading Jobvite raises $200M+ and acquires three recruitment startups to expand its platform play
Parker Conrad likes to save time, even though it’s gotten him in trouble. The former CEO of Zenefits was pushed out of the $4.5 billion human resources startup because he built a hack that let him and employees get faster insurance certifications. But 2.5 years later, he’s back to take the busy work out of […] Continue reading Zenefits’ Parker Conrad returns with Rippling to kill HR & IT busywork
People should get paid for work they have done. It’s a pretty simple principle of capitalism, but a principle that seems increasingly violated in the modern economy. With semi-monthly paychecks, the work an employee does on the first day of the month won’t be paid until the end of the third week — a delay […] Continue reading Disrupting the paycheck, Gusto’s Flexible Pay allows employees to pick when they get paid
Sometimes you acquire a company for the assets and sometimes you do it for the talent. Today Workday announced it was buying Rallyteam, a San Francisco startup that helps companies keep talented employees by matching them with more challenging opportunities in-house. The companies did not share the purchase price or the number of Rallyteam employees […] Continue reading Workday acquires Rallyteam to fuel machine learning efforts
Gusto, formerly ZenPayroll, is the rare startup unicorn that has stayed relatively mum on its product and growth — its last press release, for instance, was more than a year ago. The company’s core offering remains payroll for small businesses, and it has been working to expand its customer base across the nation, including having […] Continue reading Small businesses love free stuff, so Gusto is giving them free HR Basics
Isaac Oates runs a startup that’s looking to be a complete suite of operational tools like human resources and payroll for businesses — but he and his team initially didn’t get why users kept asking better reporting tools over a… Continue reading Justworks raises $40M to build a simpler business operations suite
So far, there’s little convincing evidence that Uber’s “independent review” of sexual harassment claims won’t take Uber’s best-interests into mind. Continue reading Uber Taps Former Advocates to Conduct ‘Independent’ Sexual Harassment Review
One of the big HR startup stories of the last year has been the trials and tribulations of Zenefits, but news coming out today from another company in the space shows that there is still a lot of opportunity in the industry with the right approac… Continue reading After spurring M&A from Google, Namely raises $50M to take on the biggies in HR
Zenefits announced this week, it was making a licensing compliance app it created in-house to ensure its sales people are properly licensed to sell insurance in a given state, available for free to anyone to download from the Salesforce App Exchange. Last winter Zenefits was sailing along providing HR services in the cloud for small and medium businesses when a bombshell hit. Buzzfeed… Read More Continue reading Zenefits makes licensing compliance app available for free in the Salesforce App Exchange