Also in this week's Quick Hits column, two new HR leaders join leading HR tech firms as chief people officers, plus who bought Utmost?

The chief information and technology officer for this growing Florida city explains why it had to stop building its own HR software and move to the cloud.

Katrina M. Jones, of social service organization Acacia Network, is tasked with hiring employees who can bring not just skills, but also 'care, compassion and empathy.'

Instead of using automation to replace jobs, employers should be leveraging tech to improve them.