Rarely does one leave a technology provider’s user conference equally impressed with their culture and compassion and their ability to help employers create and uncover more value from their workforce. But that was my reaction to Explorance’s MTMImpact conference, an impressive mix of data analytics evangelism, technology innovation and sincere customer care, complemented by charitable giving to local community organizations in the host city of New Orleans. Led by Samer Saab, the rare CEO equally adept at visionary leadership, making personal connections and the details of ..read more

More than 80% of employers say improving employee experience is a top priority in 2023, according to Brandon Hall Group’s annual HCM Market report. In fact, it’s a top priority every year, which means that organizations are repeatedly failing year after year. Employers spend more time and effort than ever before in “listening” to employees, with little to show for it. What must change? Join Explorance, winner of many Excellence in Technology Awards the past four years, to get some compelling answers. The key is effectively listening to employees, collecting feedback from them and acting on it ..read more

The Impact of Workforce Reductions Boca Raton, FL — March 13, 2023 Brandon Hall Group, the leading independent HCM research and analyst firm, is launching a study on March 14 to gain insight into how organizations are working through reductions in their workforce.  “Reductions in the workforce have become a reality for many organizations during these turbulent times. The impact of these reductions will have a short- and long-term effect on their workforce. This survey explores the extent of reductions in the workforce, and their impact on employees, managers and the organization,” sa ..read more

It is a long-held that introducing automation to a faulty business process will result only in proliferating the faulty process throughout the organization. Many organizations make the mistake of thinking that automation will fix their workforce management processes. Automated workforce management processes can help address business problems only if the processes they support work properly. The ROI for WFM automation only works if it takes away mundane, repetitive tasks from your employees and enables them to focus on more impactful business processes. Those processes might be providing ..read more

It is not something unique to this year or even this decade that many of us are being asked to do more work with fewer resources.  Although it may seem to be a symptom of these volatile economic times, the truth is that limited resources and an ever-increasing scope of work is something that just happens as our people, processes, and technology become better and better at what we do. The biggest reaction to these forces in workforce management (WFM) has been in smart automation. The difference between automation as it was done in the past and the way it can be done with a moder ..read more

Boca Raton, FL — Nov 11, 2022 Brandon Hall Group, the leading independent HCM research and analyst firm, is launching a study on November 15 to understand the current state of leadership for hybrid workforces, the challenges organizations face in supporting managers with hybrid workers, and how they are addressing and overcoming those challenges. This research will examine the best practices and real-world examples of managing hybrid workforces to give a clear picture of the day-to-day activities that organizations can implement to have an immediate impact on talent management and overall busi ..read more

In the Quantum Workplace KnowledgeGraphic created in partnership with Brandon Hall Group, the data highlighted that organizations that make reducing employee stress a priority are serious about prioritizing employees’ needs and values. To reduce employee stress requires a set of metrics that can measure and monitor employee burnout, engagement and satisfaction. Just as the last blog in this series posited that you can’t truly change your workplace culture without first measuring your current culture, the same is true for people metrics. Although data around stress is often indirect because ev ..read more

On Nov. 3rd, UKG announced that they had acquired Quorbit, a startup in the workforce planning space. UKG, of course, requires no introduction, but Quorbit may need an introduction — they are an Oxford-based (UK-based) technology solution that helps highly-complex organizations create workforce budgets, align work with business goals, and increase the overall accuracy of their planning requirements. What makes Quorbit an especially shrewd acquisition is that their solution is tailor-made for today’s VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) world of work. For the last ..read more

When it comes to wellness and well-being, organizations had traditionally thought of physical well-being and later, mental well-being. In the last few years, components of social well-being emerged. And now, financial well-being is considered just as important as any other aspect of a true total well-being effort. isolved recently released its On-Demand Pay option, a tool that addresses this previously overlooked part of total well-being. On-Demand Pay does as its name implies, giving employees access to their pay immediately but without the cumbersome pay cards or digital wall ..read more

CURRENT STATE  Although organizations understand the need for more mobility in their workforce, common barriers such as budget and time constraints hold them back. However, there are also barriers such as a lack of defined paths and lack of transparency that also are indicative of why organizations are struggling with talent mobility.  COMPLICATIONS  Besides the most obvious challenge (a lack of budget/resources), two other complications plague organizations looking to increase the capabilities of their workforce: a lack of career paths and a lack of career coaches. These two ob ..read more