Core HR Solutions

HR technology’s 2025 story: Acceleration, accountability and the real test for AI

If 2025 was the year AI became impossible to ignore, then 2026 can be the year HR leaders ensure their technology solutions strengthen, rather than divide, workplaces, writes HR Tech Chair Steve Boese.

Employee leave in 2026: A compliance perfect storm

The new year brings definitional changes that may create operational challenges, especially for companies with HRIS systems that can’t easily adapt to regional variations in employee leave.

2025: The year HR stopped believing the AI hype

For enterprise organizations with more than 5,000 employees, cost has emerged as the number one barrier to AI implementation, jumping from 22% citing it as their primary concern to 44% this year.

2025 Top HR Products of the Year: IWant by Paycom

Paycom’s IWant is an AI engine that delivers instant, accurate employee data on request—no app navigation or HR follow-up needed.

Last year’s July 4th surged PTO requests by 326%; how HR can prepare

Paycom found employees often wait to log their PTO until after a day off, suggesting the need for more consistent, tech-driven processes around paid time off requests.

It’s time to declutter your HR tech stack: Here’s how to do it

Take stock, and then consider a new, better approach to your HR tech ecosystem: a cluster model. It might require compromise but the potential advantages are significant, writes expert Stacey Harris of Sapient Insights.

Maximizing impact: How to invest in HR tech on any budget

Don't let a limited HR tech budget derail your HR department's efforts to address key areas like people analytics and AI. Here's how to get ahead.

A look at new HCM tools from Dayforce, a year after its big rebrand

Strong financial health and forward-thinking new tools indicate that Dayforce has established a foothold in the HCM market.

Why CHROs need to own the HR tech budget

A battle is brewing between IT and HR over control of the HR tech budget, and a top analyst says this ownership is critical for HR.

5 ways HR can use tech to improve employee experience and performance

At the Women in HR Technology Summit, Oracle's Yvette Cameron explored the tech HR can turn to that will boost employee experience.

What’s new and next in core HR and payroll as AI evolves?

Leveraging tech to strengthen the foundation of core HR and payroll can align those two areas, according to HR Technology Online keynoter Pete Tiliakos.

What HR needs to ask to ensure tech implementations succeed

HR Tech Online keynoter Michael Kannisto shares a list of “future-proof” questions to ensure HR tech implementations don't go awry.

How vendor partnerships can impact system implementations

A strong vendor partnership is always a win-win, writes analyst Stacey Harris. Here's where HR leaders can focus to strengthen their relationships.

Payroll compliance: Ignore it at your peril, HR

On the journey toward more strategic HR, payroll and compliance can't be overlooked. In fact, they should be at the core of the function.

Most HR leaders aren’t putting AI to work (yet), survey shows

Out of more than 360 survey respondents, more than 60% shared that AI and its counterpart, gen AI, were not utilized for HR tech functions including talent sourcing, interviewing, onboarding, learning and managing employee leave.