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What's Next with HR Tech

The HR Tech Hub is the central destination for HR leaders looking to make smarter, more confident HR technology decisions. It brings clear, unbiased insights and an unfiltered point of view on HR tech vendors, market trends, emerging capabilities, and practical guidance.

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Market Brief: UKG Aspire 2025

The UKG Aspire 2025 conference wrapped in Las Vegas, successfully uniting UKG customers and prospects with industry analysts and a UKG team that has experienced considerable transformation. Centered on UKG’s Workforce Operating Platform, a system designed not just to record and process work but to make work better, UKG is committed to aligning business performance with human experience through accessibility, intelligence, and trust. Because “When Work Works, Everything Works”.

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Market Brief: Guild Opportunity Summit 2025

The Guild Opportunity Summit was one of those rare events that you feel long after it ends. This wasn’t a traditional customer conference or an analyst forum. It was a community gathering built around a shared mission: expanding access to opportunity. The theme, “See Talent Differently,” captured it perfectly. This wasn’t about technology leading people; it was about people shaping the future of work together.

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Market Brief: Dayforce Discover 2025

The Dayforce Discover 2025 conference just wrapped in Las Vegas bringing together Dayforce customers and prospects with industry analysts, partners, and the Dayforce team. This year’s event followed the market-shifting announcement of the upcoming acquisition of Dayforce by private equity firm, Thoma Bravo, for $12.3B. With the acquisition winds propelling Dayforce ahead, the conference highlighted developments in both product and positioning.

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Market Brief: Reflections from the HR Tech Conference

The HR Tech Conference 2025 just wrapped up, bringing together thousands of HR professionals, tech vendors and thought leaders. This year’s event underscored a critical theme: while the pace of AI innovation is accelerating, many organizations are struggling to keep up. The disconnect between the rapid development of AI solutions and the readiness of HR teams to take advantage of them was more pronounced than ever.

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Market Brief: ADP Innovation Day 2025

Bringing together industry analysts and key partners, ADP’s 2025 Innovation Day underscored the company’s strategic evolution from being primarily a payroll partner, to becoming a comprehensive HR technology partner. While payroll remains a core strength, ADP is investing heavily in broadening its portfolio with innovative solutions that address the full employee lifecycle. This shift is driven by a vision to create seamless, human-centered experiences that combine deep domain expertise, data, and AI-powered insights.

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Market Brief: A look inside Beamery Elevate 2025

Against the backdrop of countless headlines around how AI will change work as we know it, Beamery hosted their Elevate event to address the shifting landscape. Set in their London headquarters, the experience brought together industry analysts and key customers for an intimate look at what the future holds for Beamery’s technology, and the workplace itself.

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Market Brief: Inside UKG Spring Global Analyst Day

UKG launched a refreshed executive team and perspective to more than 30 analysts from around the globe at their Spring Analyst day in sunny Florida. From intimate connections with the UKG team to vision-setting discussions and detailed demos, the event offered a behind the scenes peek at the future of UKG – and how they are propelling themselves and the market toward the Now of Work.

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Market Brief: Reflections from Workhuman Live 2025

Workhuman held their annual industry analyst day in Denver alongside their Workhuman Live conference, bringing together curious minds from across HR to learn, network and inspire one another. This year’s event focused on making work better, through technology of course, but also through cultural and leadership evolution. At the heart of this is recognition—far more than a feel good for the business, recognition is poised to bring insight into skills, coaching, performance and more.

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Market Brief: Cornerstone’s Vision for the Age of Agentic AI

Cornerstone OnDemand has long been a key player in the Learning & Development tech landscape. Following a series of strategic acquisitions this year—namely SkyHive for skills and Edcast for learning experience (LXP)—the company is eager to shed its old identity and emerge as a flexible end-to-end platform to manage all things talent and development. At their recent analyst day, Cornerstone outlined plans to leverage their data— including over 1 billion anonymized profiles—to create smarter, more modern talent experiences. However, the true measure of success will be whether their clients are ready for this change.

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Market Brief: Inside ATD 2025

With more than 8,400 attendees from 83 countries, this year’s ATD 2025 International Conference & EXPO proved once again why it’s a cornerstone of the learning and development (L&D) calendar. From the buzzing expo hall to thought-provoking keynotes and data-rich sessions, the conference offered a front-row seat to the future of talent development—and the challenges we still need to solve.

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Podcast: Listen up — Trends in employee listening technology

Mercer's Tara Cooper and Tyler Mullins explore the latest trends in employee listening, and the technology designed to support it, in our latest marketecture guide — complete with guidance on how to navigate solution providers. (Length: 8 min 23 sec)

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Podcast: Breaking down the TA tech vendor landscape

Welcome to the What’s Up with Work Tech Podcast where we explore the latest and greatest in all things HR and work technology. Mercer's Tara Cooper and Leah Tanner share some insights around our newly launched Talent Acquisition Market Matrices.

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Podcast: Have you heard how HR tech will make your job easier?

Tara Cooper provides insights on the evolution of HR technology and all of the potential use cases to make your workforce more productive and efficient. (Length:13 min 46 sec)

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Podcast: NOW of Work

Every Friday Jason Averbook and Jess Von Bank host a Digital Meetup to collaborate on the NOW of Work. The NOW of Work is a movement that represents the humanization and digital disruption of work during the most historic labor market and business cycles we’ve seen in modern times.

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Podcast: AI-volution — Redefining HR

Welcome to Mercer’s, AI-volution: Redefining HR podcast. Your go-to resource for staying informed about the latest tools, platforms, & trends surrounding all things Generative AI. We’ll discuss the cutting-edge technologies offering valuable insights to support & empower HR leaders.

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Podcast: What's up with work tech?

Welcome to What’s Up with Work Tech? brought to you by Mercer. We’ll discuss the latest trends, innovations, and challenges in the world of HR Technology and how it affects & enhances the Now of Work.

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Not one but two monthly newsletters to whet your HR Technology and Digital Workforce Experience appetite.

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Virtual Forum: Generative AI

Join our exclusive work tech forums to stay ahead of the game by connecting with peers at other enterprise organizations and learning from industry experts at Mercer | Leapgen. Fill out this short form to learn more.

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Webinar Recording: The big shift — HR Tech is now Work Tech

Watch this recording for current organizational priorities, market shifts, and investment behaviors driving the selection and success of the wide array of solutions upon which organizations rely to deliver workforce experience and services and support necessary transformation. (Length: 60 min 24 sec)

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Report: Building on shaky ground — HR’s struggle to realize value from tech investments

Even before AI, we struggled with realizing our full HR transformation potential — making investments that don’t align with our people priorities, letting tech stacks get unwieldy and kill return on investment (ROI), and implementing tech without changing how we work. Mercer’s latest HR Tech Confidence Check explores whether we’re moving the needle on all of it.

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Report: HR Digital Transformation: 7 priorities for 2025

Transformation isn’t an option in 2025, nor is it a mandate to be handed down by the business. A new mindset is required to deliver transformation constantly and as a business capability — not as a spigot to be turned on or off but a way of operating, driving innovation, and delivering outcomes.

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Article: Defining tech in 2025 — AI agents

Artificial intelligence (AI) keeps evolving — and with agentic AI, the digital agents joining our ranks will soon take automation to the next level. Despite slow take-up in HR and mixed reports about the return on investment (ROI), global executives see AI as the top business priority and the biggest potential value driver in 2025. Agentic AI is transforming company systems, processes and the workforce, and HR leaders who don’t prepare will be left behind.

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Report: Bridging the Generational Gap in Enterprise Learning

Today’s workforce is the most multi-generational we’ve seen in history, with the convergence of up to six different generations creating new workplace dynamics as older employees increasingly extend their careers. At the same time, business needs are evolving more rapidly than ever before, driven by technological advancements, shifting consumer behaviors and a tumultuous global market, leading to an increased focus on agility as a competitive advantage. These trends underscore the importance of fostering inclusive enterprise learning environments that cater to diverse age groups.

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Blog: Navigating the system integrator world for HR tech implementation with Raven Intelligence

Corina Lam and Bonnie Tinder explore the role of Raven Intelligence in the system integrator world for HR tech implementation. Read about the importance of choosing the right partners and key considerations for a successful deployment of HR technology solutions.

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Article: Not your parents’ typing test — exploring pre-hire assessment trends and technological advancements

Pre-hire assessments are often a key part of the hiring process, helping employers evaluate candidates’ skills and abilities to make sure they’re the right fit for the job. Over time, assessments have evolved to try to keep pace with the changing talent landscape, leading to a wealth of assessment technology options. This nuanced landscape can be tricky to navigate, so we’re breaking it down to help you make sense of it all.

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Article: The power of relationships — trends and technologies in employee referrals

Employee referrals can be a key component of a successful recruitment strategy, transforming existing employees into a network of recruiters who tap into their connections to identify qualified talent. As technology continues to advance, employee referral programs are likely to become more streamlined and efficient. Here we explore the benefits, the potential drawbacks and the key technological trends of employee referrals, so you can make the most of your employee referral programs.

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Article: Employee value proposition (EVP) in the digital era — innovations and insights for a competitive advantage

A key strategy when competing for talent in today’s competitive job market lies in the employer value proposition (EVP). Here we’ll explore what a good EVP looks like and the role of technology in putting it to use.

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Article: Missed connections — the rise of talent rediscovery technology in modern recruiting

Investing to attract a large pool of applicants, only to hire a tiny percentage and ignore the rest is an outdated approach to recruiting that is no longer viable. Talent rediscovery – matching jobs to talent you already know - enables organizations to maximize recruitment investments and tap into a broader pool of qualified candidates. Learn how technology is evolving to keep pace with demands around talent rediscovery.

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Article: The future of candidate engagement — trends and innovations in recruitment marketing, CRM, chatbot, and text recruiting space

Increasing competition for talent and skills has made it critical for talent teams to create a consumer-like experience that resonates with candidates. This shift has prompted talent leaders to explore candidate engagement solutions and rise to meet the evolving needs of candidates.

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