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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals

Advos

Our weekly recap of funding, mergers & acquisition, and partnership news from the human resource, recruitment and employee benefits marketplace is below. Applied Business Analytics Leader Visier Closes $45 Million in Financing to Meet Growing Demand for its People Strategy Platform. Visier CEO John Schwarz.

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Leading the Pack

HRExecutive

What It Is: Sofia is a virtual personal-benefits assistant that uses natural-language processing and machine-learning technology to address employeesbenefits questions. Sofia saves transcripts of each conversation to the employee’s benefits-administration record and can be accessed via a computer or mobile app.

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6 Training Ideas for a Smoother HR Technology Rollout

Visier

When I led the training during the roll out of Visier People to City of Edmonton employees, I wanted to ensure that every lesson I prepared would make mastering the self-service analytics solution easy and uncomplicated. Our people strategy platform, Visier People, comes out with quarterly updates , including online help content.

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6 Training Ideas for a Smoother HR Technology Rollout

Visier

When I led the training during the roll out of the Visier Workforce Intelligence solution to City of Edmonton employees, I wanted to ensure that every lesson I prepared would make mastering the self-service analytics solution easy and uncomplicated. I’ve trained 300 employees and counting on Visier. I panicked.

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Conference Twitter Primer Unleash World Conference and Expo #Unleash18

Advos

Chris_Wakely : SVP of Enterpise @ThomsonsOnline, #hr, #hrtech and employee benefits blogger, Brit abroad,father of two, husband of one. Research at @Visier, Japanese art #quilter, #golfer, master gardener, traveler, #IPA lover! Visier is in the #cloud & operational in less than 8 weeks. @CarstenBertling : No Bio.

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The pay gap persists: Why people analytics is more important than ever

HRExecutive

Despite significant efforts to close that gap in recent years—including narrowing it by 6 cents between 2017 and 2020, according to a report earlier this year from Visier—the pandemic is threatening that progress. Lexy Martin, Visier. Advertisement On average, women continue to earn 83 cents for every dollar that men make.

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4 ways tech can help you retain women

HRExecutive

“Measurement is critical to making progress towards creating a healthy workplace—where employees, especially women who may be returning to the workforce, can bring their full selves to work—and cultivating an environment where employees want to stay.” For instance, are enough women in the talent pipeline? Lexy Martin.