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HR Tech Daily Roundup: Key Insights in HR Technology

May 16, 2025
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Welcome to today’s edition of the HR Tech Daily Roundup, where we bring you the most important news, trends, and innovations in the world of human resources technology. As HR tech continues to evolve, staying informed is essential for professionals striving to optimize their workforce strategies and drive meaningful change. In this roundup, we highlight key updates, cutting-edge solutions, and expert insights that are shaping the future of HR. Let’s take a look at today’s top news!

Nationwide Honored for Customer Insight Excellence

Medallia, the global leader in customer and employee experience, and Kantar, announced that their partnership with financial institution Nationwide, the world’s largest building society, has been recognized with the Best Use of Customer Insight award at the Institute of Customer Service Awards 2025. The recognition reflects Nationwide’s deep-rooted commitment to understanding and acting on feedback from its 16 million members across the United Kingdom. Working with Kantar, Nationwide has created a holistic insight ecosystem that provides a top-down view of customer experience across every level. Medallia’s technology powers this experience by capturing rich, real-time signals across digital and in-person touchpoints, enabling the building society to continuously improve the member experience.

Beamery Integrates LinkedIn CRM for Smarter Hiring

Beamery, the leading AI talent platform, announced the availability of the LinkedIn CRM Connect integration. This integration connects Beamery to LinkedIn Recruiter to help talent professionals simplify the hiring workflow, save time building talent pipelines, and nurture candidate relationships with up-to-date talent data from LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network. The launch marks a significant milestone in helping organizations unlock greater value from their existing HR technology investments, by creating a seamless experience across two of the most frequently used tools in the recruiter’s workflow. This integration – which is accessible for no additional platform fees to customers who are LinkedIn Recruiter seat-holders – allows talent teams to manage candidate data seamlessly across LinkedIn Recruiter and Beamery: creating a unified, up-to-date source of truth that improves decision making, outreach, and operational efficiency.

Velocity Unveils On-Demand Legal & HR Solution

Velocity Edge Advisors launches introducing an innovative, on-demand Legal and HR department solution that works at the speed of business. Whether you’re a high-growth startup or an established enterprise, you need Legal and HR support that delivers valuable results—fast, smart, and aligned with your business goals. That’s where Velocity comes in. Velocity operates like your own in-house Legal and HR departments—only without the overhead or long-term commitment.

Insurance Pacesetters Innovate Skills and Career Pathways

The Josh Bersin Company, the world’s most trusted HR advisory firm, is releasing a new research study, Intelligent Adaptation in Insurance—Predicting the Unpredictable. The report explores how the most advanced leadership organizations in the global $10 trillion insurance sector are evolving their leadership models, transforming hiring strategies, and adapting to rapidly shifting consumer forces. Key findings show the industry is moving beyond traditional risk mitigation to proactive, data-driven, digitally integrated partnerships. Insurers are embedding services across industries, expanding consumer touchpoints, and creating direct engagement channels—while tackling historic underinvestment in AI, blockchain, and IoT.

Strada Report: Surge in AI Adoption and Data-Driven HR Decisions

A new report from Strada and ISG reveals that modern HCM transformation is enabling a powerful shift in how HR teams operate. Organizations that have implemented HCM platforms report a 500% increase in AI and machine learning usage, and a 44% rise in data-driven decision-making, highlighting the impact of digital transformation across HR functions. The research – based on a survey of 190 global companies across multiple industries and consisting primarily of organizations that have implemented Workday HCM – reveals that transformation is delivering real results. Among these companies, 91% report success, far surpassing the industry benchmark, where typically half of such projects fail.

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