Fifty years after the Age Discrimination in Employment Act was passed, ageism remains too common and accepted, says a new report from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. https://goo.gl/7kpV5d #GlobalHR #HRTech
Viewpoint: Crowdsource Digital Skills On-Demand with Talent-as-a-Service
As a function, talent-as-a-service has been around for a while, but its usage within business is still relatively immature. Instead of hiring full-time employees, companies can hire top talent from crowdsourcing platforms when they need it, for as long as they need it, in a project-based business model. https://goo.gl/pSPDRm #GlobalHR #HRTech
With MuleSoft’s Acquisition by Salesforce, What Happens to Informatica?
MuleSoft’s acquisition by Salesforce in March for $6.5 billion remains the largest acquisition to-date by the cloud computing behemoth. While the deal had some questioning why Salesforce would pay almost 22 times revenues, by and large, analysts were overwhelmingly positive about the deal.
Industry analysts like Ray Wang of Constellation Research theorized that the acquisition was about a “microservices future," while financial analysts like Michael Nemeroff of Credit Suisse posited that it was about "heterogeneous data environments." https://goo.gl/YRwtCB #DataIntegration #ML
