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How to Automate Access Provisioning for New Hires

A new employee starts on Monday. HR has already added them to the HR system, but IT is still waiting for a ticket. Their email account is ready, yet they cannot access the VPN, shared folders, Salesforce, Jira, or the applications their team uses every day. By lunchtime, the employee is messaging their manager. The manager is following up with IT, while IT checks several systems to find out which requests were completed and which were missed.

These 5 HR Automation Trends Will Define 2026!

HR automation is changing fast in 2026. AI Agents, Agentic AI, employee self-service, deep system integrations, and end-to-end workflow automation are changing how HR teams handle everyday work. In this video, we break down 5 HR automation trends every HR manager needs to know in 2026—plus one bonus trend that most people aren't talking about yet. If you're an HR Manager, HR Director, CHRO, HR Operations Leader, or HR Tech professional, these are the trends worth watching as HR automation moves from simple task automation toward intelligent, connected workflows.

Why IC measurement keeps failing and how to solve the real problem

Ask IC practitioners why their measurement efforts stall, and they might point to their digital resources. The real culprits sit one level beneath the technology: no shared definition of success and no clear ownership. Without those, even good infrastructure ends up held together by manual exports and a prayer. Get that foundation in place, and the right tools will have something to plug into.

10 Ways AI Can Improve Team Communication

AI workplace communication is transforming how modern teams connect, collaborate, and share information. From drafting messages and summarizing meetings to translating conversations and organizing knowledge, AI workplace communication tools are helping employees communicate faster and work more efficiently. As remote and hybrid workplaces continue to grow, teams often deal with overflowing messages, lengthy meetings, scattered information, and communication across different time zones and languages.

Proven Tips to Secure Your Business Communications

Secure business communications are essential for protecting sensitive information, maintaining customer trust, and reducing cybersecurity risks. As cyber threats continue to evolve, businesses need secure business communications to safeguard their internal and external conversations. From business emails and messaging platforms to file transfers and mobile devices, every communication channel can become a potential security risk if it is not properly protected.

10 Best Employee Onboarding Software Tools in 2026

A new hire accepts your offer, but their laptop arrives late, application access is missing, and their manager assumes HR has handled everything. By the end of the first week, the employee is frustrated and HR is chasing five different teams. That disorganization affects more than the first-day experience. Gallup reports that only 12% of employees strongly agree their organization does a great job of onboarding, while many employees can take 12 months or longer to become fully effective in a role.

Agents are in Confluence (and wherever you need them to be)

@mention an agent on any page and it creates, edits, and comments alongside your team. Through the Atlassian Rovo MCP, the same agents work from Claude, Cursor, or your IDE. Agents have been working in Confluence since we launched custom agents in May 2024, and teams now run more than 5 million agent invocations a month. In February alone, Agents saved Atlassian customers more than 200,000 hours.

Rocket.Chat 8.7 brings XMPP interoperability for coalition operations

Coalition operations depend on XMPP. NATO's Federated Mission Networking (FMN) builds on it, it is a standing requirement in coalition RFPs, and it has carried mission communications for more than 20 years. With release 8.7, Rocket.Chat federates with XMPP, so organisations can coordinate with every partner on the mission network from a single sovereign platform. This release is the first step in a larger build: native XMPP federation, engineered into the platform rather than bolted on.

Simpplr's Rewards Store evolution: built into the everyday employee experience

Recognition works best when it doesn't ask people to leave where they already are. Say thank you in one app, redeem it in another, and the moment loses its shape before it ever lands. Most recognition programs were built as bolt-ons, sitting next to the intranet instead of inside it. That gap is where participation quietly stalls.

Why better tickets help agents write better code

A reflection on building an enterprise product using AI agents, and what the data says about how we worked. The observation For the past few months we have been rapidly building an enterprise-wide, production-grade application that helps with employee compensation planning, management and communication. I compared what we built against a traditionally-built product to draw out insights about our new ways of working.