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New Research: Employees Score Companies with a Failing Grade on Mental Health Support
Employers are trying. They really are. In the new report published this week based on responses from 1,000 employers and 1,000 workers, we saw organizations clearly attempting to support the mental health of their people with tools, resources, training, and other approaches. But the workforce is saying it’s not enough. Those changes aren’t being implemented, felt,…
Data Preview: The Great Resignation? Nope, It’s The Great Reprioritization (New Research)
The Great Resignation Reprioritization The video overview below, hosted by Lighthouse Research & Advisory’s Chief Research Officer Ben Eubanks, dives into our brand new research, offering a peek at just how much is wrong about what we’re hearing in the news and why we need to be looking at this problem in a different way.…
2021 Was the Biggest Year Yet for HR Tech: See 30+ of the Top M&A Activities
Last year one of our most popular posts on the blog was a recap of some of the 2020 M&A activities across the HR Tech landscape. When you juxtapose that with the fact that 2021 was the biggest year ever for the HR technology market in terms of investment, we just couldn’t go without sharing…
New Data Show the (Surprising) Buyer Priorities for Compensation Management Systems [New Research]
Companies often spend more time managing their petty cash drawer than they do thinking about the strategic importance of their compensation systems and structure. That quote from a previous iteration of our research on compensation data, technology, and buyer behaviors was one of the big takeaways we had after interviewing dozens of HR and compensation…
The Candidate Experience: Perspectives on Video Interviews, Assessments, and Hiring
[Updated July 2021 with new insights] In some ways, hiring looks very similar to what it did twenty years ago. People search for positions, indicate interest, and are filtered down until the most promising candidate is offered a job. However, the technology we use has upgraded considerably over time. Today employers have tools to increase…
These are the Learning Technology and L&D Skill Gaps that Exist [New Research]
When situations change and people can’t change fast enough, everyone turns to the learning team for answers. But what if they have questions of their own? In the first of a series of reports from our newest research study, we found a number of surprising insights from the audience of 2,000+ learners and learning professionals/executive…
Report: We Asked 800+ Employers about Virtual Recruiting [New Research]
This year our team is going deep on research. In a world like we’ve seen in the last 12+ months, it’s easy for all of us to feel a little bit adrift and out of touch with reality. The best antidote is information, so we are committing to regular research into the market across all…
New Research: Virtual Hiring, Recruiter Skills, and Internal Mobility
This year our team is going deep on research. In a world like we’ve seen in the last 12+ months, it’s easy for all of us to feel a little bit adrift and out of touch with reality. The best antidote is information, so we are committing to regular research into the market across all…
20+ High Impact HR Technology Acquisitions, Mergers, and More from 2020
In 2020, in spite of the pandemic-related shutdowns and other business impacts, the HR technology industry was within a few M&A deals of the 2019 numbers we were tracking (approximately 50). This represents a vibrant industry full of continuous innovation and providers striving to serve the needs of the HR buyer. It also helps to…
7 HCM Trends for 2021: Prioritizing People-Centric HR
2020 is going to be the year that the world never forgets, but in a swirling pool of chaos there are some important components that we can’t miss. There are silver linings to every cloud, no matter how dark, and those present opportunities for employers to create better workplaces as time progresses. Below are some…
Case Studies
Eightfold.ai 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company With a deep-learning AI platform and massive datasets (on more than a billion careers, representing much of the working world) companies can hire and manage a diverse, global workforce. This is especially important now, given the attention being paid to talent and how rapidly the skills needs of companies are changing; in…
Lever 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company For a long time, hiring was a transactional process: moving from resume to interview, interview to offer, offer to first day in the office. In this world, applicant tracking systems supported traditional, inbound hiring needs. But today’s talent acquisition isn’t a transaction. It’s a dialog. A network of relationships among people —…
BrightHire 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company BrightHire is the world’s leading Interview Intelligence platform. We transform the quality of hiring for high-growth companies like Canva, Carta, Attentive, and Salesloft by helping individuals run better interviews and helping teams hire faster with less bias. Our technology rides along on Zoom, Google Meet and phone interviews, automatically records and transcribes…
Seekout 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company SeekOut is an AI-powered Talent 360 platform for Enterprise Talent Optimization that enables companies to quickly hire, grow, and retain talent while focusing on diversity, technical expertise, and other hard-to-find skillsets. SeekOut lets great companies and great people to grow together. Six out of 10 of the highest valued companies in the…
Sparrow 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company Sparrow makes it simple for employers to care for their people with the first true end-to-end leave management solution where innovative technology is coupled with a world-class leave specialist team. This enables mid-market employers to reduce compliance risks, enhance the employee experience, operate better, and contain costs. The technology integrates with HRIS…
HireEZ 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company HireEZ’s mission is to make outbound recruiting easy. We’re dedicated to helping recruiters proactively bring jobs to people and give them the recruiter-centric tools they need. That’s why we developed hireEZ (formerly Hiretual), an AI-powered outbound recruitment platform. With hireEZ, companies can execute a strategically scalable approach to build their workforce of…
Enboarder 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company Enboarder, the world’s only People Activation Platform specifically designed to inspire action and truly engage employees, was founded on the belief that people are a company’s greatest asset, and that businesses should put their employees above all else –– even investors, customers and other stakeholders. Founder and CEO Brent Pearson discovered that…
Socrates 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company Socrates.ai is a leading employee experience platform that builds on humanity in the best way possible – via real conversations in real-time – to deliver consumer experiences in the workplace. Socrates.ai leverages artificial intelligence to construct the conversational answers and information employees need. The omnichannel virtual assistant can be used on SMS,…
Reejig 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company Reejig is a leading workforce intelligence platform that enables large-scale organizations to find, retain, and upskill talent at scale. Powered by the world’s first independently audited ethical AI, Reejig acts as your central nervous system for all talent decisions, helping you create a world with zero wasted potential. Reejig provides global executives…
Fuel50 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company From its humble beginnings in New Zealand in 2013, Fuel50 is one of the leading HCM SaaS solutions in the US and is seeing rapid growth in the UK and European markets, supported by our team of passionate Fuellies who are located across USA, NZ, Australia, South Africa, and EMEA. With years…
Videos, Interviews, and Podcasts
Predicting Pay and Skills From Job Market Intelligence Data on #HRTechTalks
In today’s world, things change and evolve so quickly. Take pay for instance. It’s changing faster than the surveys and other data sources can keep up. So what do we do? One area of emerging data comes from labor market intelligence tools. In this episode of #hrtechtalks, we chat with Cary Sparrow, CEO of Greenwich.HR,…
Personalization and Wellness: How AI Supports Wellbeing at Scale
“You need to have a competitive pay and benefits offering. When you go to do that, the employer ends up paying for a lot of things that go unused just because there’s too much to communicate. What’s just amazing about the time and space we’re in now is you can really use personalization to surface…
Compliance Challenges? You’re Not Alone: Featuring ThinkHR/MammothHR on HR Tech Talks
Since the start of this year, multiple new laws have passed that change responsibilities for employers, and that’s just a small sample of the overall changes in the workplace over the last few years. Even when you’re focusing on those evolving requirements, it can be overwhelming to decipher what applies to your company and how to adopt the new regulations.
In this discussion on HR Tech Talks, I am going to chat with Nathan Christensen, CEO of Mammoth/ThinkHR about why navigating compliance is a critical skill set for HR leaders and how his team supports this need for the business (without breaking the bank).
#HRTechTalks
Solving Pay Equity and Comp Challenges: Featuring Curo Compensation on HR Tech Talks
More and more companies across the globe are attempting to tackle the pay equity issue, but it’s not always easy if you don’t have the right tools to support the process. In some brand new research at Lighthouse Research & Advisory, we found that compensation technology is not only becoming more powerful, but it’s becoming a staple of the HR leader’s toolbox for navigating pay decisions across the board.
In this episode, I’m talking with Ruth Thomas of Curo Compensation about how this company has exploded into the scene of compensation management tools. We’ll also cover the firm’s priority focus on pay equity and how it is helping employers to create a fair and equitable playing field when it comes to pay.
#HRTechTalks
Embracing Flexibility in Your Talent System: PeopleFluent on HR Tech Talks
When HR technology first became a “thing,” tools were rigid and structured. Today, some tools are still that way, but others have taken the opposite approach: they allow employers to customize and tailor the settings and capabilities around their unique and specific needs.
In our 2020 research, we found that 97% of firms that say they are adaptable also say that their HR technology plays a key part in that flexibility.
In this episode of HR Tech Talks, I’m going to talk with Stephen Bruce of PeopleFluent about how his firm has adopted this approach and how it results in better customer relationships, stronger capabilities that fit each client’s needs, and deep expertise in talent. We’ll touch on talent mobility, talent analytics, and the need for a flexible system to meet the needs of an agile organization.
#hrtechtalks
Health Intelligence: Going Beyond Health Analytics with Springbuk on HR Tech Talks
Employers often put little thought into the data wrapped around their health benefits. But what if leaders could use health analytics to connect business metrics with the health of your workforce? In this episode of HR Tech Talks, I’m talking with Amy Brown from Springbuk (a 2020 HR Tech Awards winner!) about how their company helps employers to see trends and insights in the data. Join us to learn how we can get better at using this data for supporting our people.
#HRTechTalks
HR Tech for Midsize Companies: Featuring Namely on HR Tech Talks
If you’re a large enterprise, there are HR tools for you. If you’re a small company, there are HR tools for you. But what if you’re in a midsize company? In the past, employers with a few hundred up to a few thousand employees were in a kind of “no man’s land” when it came to HR tech. In this episode of HR Tech Talks, I’m going to talk with Larry Dunivan about how Namely tackles this challenge for employers.
#HRTechTalks
Technology Reviews
Eightfold.ai 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company With a deep-learning AI platform and massive datasets (on more than a billion careers, representing much of the working world) companies can hire and manage a diverse, global workforce. This is especially important now, given the attention being paid to talent and how rapidly the skills needs of companies are changing; in…
Talroo 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company Talroo is helping organizations like Uber, McDonald’s, UPS, The Home Depot, Target and more, find and hire their essential workforces. Our data-driven job and hiring event recruiting platform turns the Internet into a help wanted sign. With a pay-for-performance model, we enable customers to maximize efficiency and their budget to hire employees…
Lever 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company For a long time, hiring was a transactional process: moving from resume to interview, interview to offer, offer to first day in the office. In this world, applicant tracking systems supported traditional, inbound hiring needs. But today’s talent acquisition isn’t a transaction. It’s a dialog. A network of relationships among people —…
The State of Voice of the Employee and Enterprise Employee Feedback Survey Platforms
In the last few years, the workplace has transitioned from a focus just on employee surveys to a more continuous listening approach. This transition has also been branded in some cases as “voice of the employee,” since it opens a direct channel from the workforce to company leadership, giving workers a voice like never before.…
BrightHire 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company BrightHire is the world’s leading Interview Intelligence platform. We transform the quality of hiring for high-growth companies like Canva, Carta, Attentive, and Salesloft by helping individuals run better interviews and helping teams hire faster with less bias. Our technology rides along on Zoom, Google Meet and phone interviews, automatically records and transcribes…
Seekout 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company SeekOut is an AI-powered Talent 360 platform for Enterprise Talent Optimization that enables companies to quickly hire, grow, and retain talent while focusing on diversity, technical expertise, and other hard-to-find skillsets. SeekOut lets great companies and great people to grow together. Six out of 10 of the highest valued companies in the…
Sparrow 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company Sparrow makes it simple for employers to care for their people with the first true end-to-end leave management solution where innovative technology is coupled with a world-class leave specialist team. This enables mid-market employers to reduce compliance risks, enhance the employee experience, operate better, and contain costs. The technology integrates with HRIS…
isolved Connect 2022: A Case Study in Customer Engagement
Nearly 40% bigger than last year, the isolved Connect 2022 user conference was held in Nashville and demonstrated that in many ways, client events are back from the COVID-required limitations put on many events. For those not familiar, isolved offers an HCM platform that supports employers from SMBs through enterprise, though their core market success…
HireEZ 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company HireEZ’s mission is to make outbound recruiting easy. We’re dedicated to helping recruiters proactively bring jobs to people and give them the recruiter-centric tools they need. That’s why we developed hireEZ (formerly Hiretual), an AI-powered outbound recruitment platform. With hireEZ, companies can execute a strategically scalable approach to build their workforce of…
Enboarder 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company Enboarder, the world’s only People Activation Platform specifically designed to inspire action and truly engage employees, was founded on the belief that people are a company’s greatest asset, and that businesses should put their employees above all else –– even investors, customers and other stakeholders. Founder and CEO Brent Pearson discovered that…
See the Latest from Lighthouse Research & Advisory
IAMPHENOM 2023: Back and More Innovative than Ever
In our latest talent acquisition research study (join our upcoming livestream to be the first to see the findings), we see a dramatic growth in the number of employers that are not just comfortable in using intelligent automation in hiring, but that also say recruiting automation technologies are adding real value to their talent and business…
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Is Mentoring Outdated in Today’s Workplace?
The workplace is where people go to earn a living, be productive, and learn new skills, so why not use it as a way to develop your employees at the same time? Mentoring someone in the workplace can help them grow professionally while also benefiting their manager with stronger ties to the organization. By the…
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49% of Employers with Recruitment Process Outsourcing Relationships Plan to Change this Year
In our partnership with the Recruitment Process Outsourcing Association (RPOA) in 2022, we jointly published a research report that examined how hundreds of RPO buyers were prioritizing relationships, types of services, and more. In a world where recruiting and talent shortages were a constant reality, business leaders told us some incredible things about how they…
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It’s HERE! My New Talent Scarcity Book is ***Free*** For a Limited Time
Over the last year as companies struggled to find good people to hire and fought at the same time to keep their best staff, I knew there had to be a story there. I began digging into the data and found some surprising and potentially alarming details: there is a real talent shortage globally, and…
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How to Manage Frontline Employee Turnover
Frontline Workplaces: Experiencing High Turnover? The Cause May Be Your Manager It’s no secret that industries with frontline workers are struggling to hire and retain talent. Frontline positions require workers to perform their job in person, which talent may view as a drawback in a competitive labor landscape where many industries offer hybrid or remote…
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Heads Up: These Employees Have Zero Interest in Learning and Career Growth
We often hear that learning and development is one of the keys to retaining employees, because they value it so much. But what about those employees who have virtually no interest in learning? In our new learning research, we see that employees who score themselves as low on the belonging spectrum are eight times more…
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The Costs and Benefits of Employee One-on-Ones
In most cases, losing weight comes down to eating right and exercising. Creating great relationships means being attentive and caring of the other person’s needs. We know many of these things, yet we struggle with doing them. In an employment context, there’s one thing that we know works, yet it’s not done nearly as often as it…
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2022 Was Another Record Year for HR Tech: See 20+ M&A Activities that Shaped the Market
Last year one of our most popular posts on the blog was a recap of some of the 2021 M&A activities across the HR Tech landscape. When you juxtapose that with the fact that 2021 was the biggest year ever for the HR technology market in terms of investment, we just couldn’t go without sharing…
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Eightfold.ai 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company With a deep-learning AI platform and massive datasets (on more than a billion careers, representing much of the working world) companies can hire and manage a diverse, global workforce. This is especially important now, given the attention being paid to talent and how rapidly the skills needs of companies are changing; in…
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What Frontline Workers Care About in 2023 [Infographic]
With all of the news focusing on layoffs and potential economic challenges, it might surprise you to hear that employers hiring frontline staff are still struggling to find enough people to fill all of their open positions. In 2023, these challenges will continue, but employers that understand what the frontline workforce needs will be able…
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New Research: What Learners Want Most in 2023 [Infographic]
When it comes to hiring, employers spend a good bit of time learning and understanding what their candidates are looking for. We want to make sure our organizations are appealing and attractive. However, I’ve found that on the learning side, we’re a little less proactive. We don’t always have or gather information about what our…
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Employee Burnout and Belonging: Top Learning Trends for 2023 [Infographic]
Employee belonging, burnout/stress, and DEI are all tied together, and they all intersect learning as well. In our brand new research on learning and talent development, we looked at some of the key areas where employee demand is shifting and evolving. In many cases, workers aren’t just asking to be trained to upskill in their…
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3 Frontline Worker Trends: Salary, Shortage, and Support
In today’s workplace with the economy shifting and employers looking to slow hiring, we’re seeing some confusing signals. With some firms laying off workers or freezing hiring, others are still going nearly as fast as they possibly can. The last data from the BLS shows that job openings increased to 10.7 million on the last…
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Talroo 2022 Awards Case Study
About the Company Talroo is helping organizations like Uber, McDonald’s, UPS, The Home Depot, Target and more, find and hire their essential workforces. Our data-driven job and hiring event recruiting platform turns the Internet into a help wanted sign. With a pay-for-performance model, we enable customers to maximize efficiency and their budget to hire employees…
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Why Belonging is a Critical Aspect of DEI Success
Most researchers believe the annual voluntary turnover rate for U.S. employees will rise this year, with a heavy percentage of that being voluntary. After all, the data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the quit rate that we’ve become accustomed to is still at record high levels when compared to historical numbers (see…
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