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Workday Buys Paradox: An Inevitable Acquisition That’s Long Overdue
Posted on August 22, 2025 2 Comments
Let’s not pretend the acquisition of Paradox by Workday was just another “vision-aligned” synergy play. This wasn’t Workday adding bells and whistles. This was Workday plugging glaring holes in its talent stack, the kind you can’t close with roadmap updates or incremental UI tweaks. Let’s connect the dogs.
The Devil You Know: Do We Really Need HR Technology?
Posted on August 20, 2025 2 Comments
When you strip away the marketing jargon and compliance theater, what you’re left with is a bloated tech stack full of point solutions designed to solve problems the rest of the business already solved.
Call it what it is: HR tech isn’t lagging behind; it’s running in the wrong race.
Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Roadmaps.
Posted on August 15, 2025 2 Comments
Among the legacy vendors making the shift from applicant tracking to artificial intelligence is iCIMS, a technology that CHROs tend to love and recruiters tend to tolerate. It’s the Goldilocks of the ATS ecosystem: not too hot, but not too cold, either – much like their AI capabilities.
Swagger Like Us: Why the Future of TA Belongs To Talent Intelligence
Posted on August 12, 2025 4 Comments
When done right, talent intelligence combines the best of internal and external data to help people leaders see what’s coming, conduct scenario analysis, make faster, smarter and more informed decisions, and gives the employers getting it right a distinct competitive advantage before most companies even realize they’re running a race.
Employer of Record: Solution or Shell Game?
Posted on August 6, 2025 Leave a Comment
Today, global hiring isn’t just for Fortune 500s. It’s for every seed-stage startup that needs to prove they can build a distributed team without knowing the first thing about, say, employment law in Poland.
Enter the new EOR platforms: sleek, SaaS-y, VC-funded, full of promise and able to sell services at a software multiple.
Snark Attack 