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2 days ago | 
unleash.ai | Lucy Buchholz
2025 is continuing to see a number of acquisitions in the HR sector, with ELMO Group – the parent company of UK SME HR platform Breathe HR – acquiring Rotageek. Through this acquisition, ELMO Group aims to continue serving its more that 18,000 customers, spanning Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. To find out more about what this deal entails, UNLEASH spoke exclusively to Joe Lyons, CEO at ELMO Group.
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2 days ago | 
unleash.ai | Lucy Buchholz
American consulting firm, BCG, which achieved a global revenue growth of $13.5 billion in 2024, held their annual BCG Edge event in Vienna. Throughout the conference, a number of senior leaders shared their thoughts, knowledge, and data on AI, technology and the future of work. UNLEASH’s Senior Journalist, Lucy Buchholz, attended to uncover exclusive insights and report from the inside. Is Europe keeping pace with AI?
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2 days ago | 
unleash.ai | Lucy Buchholz
The global skills landscape is ever-changing – so much so it can be difficult to keep up with which skills are most in demand across the globe. Drawing on data from more than 170 million learners, online course provider Coursera reveals which countries are ahead of globe skills proficiency and which are falling behind.
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1 week ago | 
unleash.ai | Lucy Buchholz
Although flexible working has become a firm favorite for many employees, new research from job platform, Flexa Careers, has found that the younger generation are prioritizing job security over the choice to work from home.
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1 week ago | 
unleash.ai | Lucy Buchholz
Business leaders are well aware of the impact Gen AI is having – and will continue to have – on the workplace. Yet are they properly equipped to cope with the changes needed to keep pace with the current digital landscape? According to recent research from Lenovo, 81% of 600 IT leaders surveyed across the globe shared that although creating “productive and engaging workplaces” is a business priority, less than half had confidence that their current digital environment was able to support this.
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2 weeks ago | 
unleash.ai | Lucy Buchholz
Swissport – being the largest airport ground handling company in the world – has grown through several mergers and acquisitions over the years. The €3.7 billion revenue company therefore uses a mix of systems to tackle day-to-day tasks – previously totting up 41 different HR and payroll systems globally. To streamline this, Swissport deployed the HMC platform, Dayforce, focusing on one single platform to bring all their HR, payroll, and WFM data into one environment.
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2 weeks ago | 
unleash.ai | Lucy Buchholz
HR leaders from over 100 companies flocked to The Roundhouse – one of London’s most iconic theatres – to attend Indeed FutureWorks London 2025 this week. Through seven sessions spread across the afternoon, the audience were presented with thought-provoking discussions, visionary speakers, and provided with ample opportunities to network with peers. The sessions also spanned breadth and depth, covering topics such as AI adoption, the transformation of talent acquisition, and much more.
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2 weeks ago | 
unleash.ai | Lucy Buchholz
As AI is becoming more integrated with business processes, HR leaders need to assess where the boundary to stop lies. One area that this applies to is how the tool is used to hire and fire employees. The latest research from Orgvue, an organizational design and planning software platform, found that 39% of business leaders made employees redundant as a result of deploying AI. Upon reflection, 55% admitted that they were wrong to do so.
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2 weeks ago | 
unleash.ai | Lucy Buchholz
Four-in-five board members and C-suite leaders believe that CEOs are responsible for driving ethical leadership at an organization, according to new research from Deloitte. Ethical leadership should therefore be a shared responsibility across the organization, but it needs to start from the very top. For this to be achieved, organizations should follow what Deloitte has dubbed the four Es: Expression, engagement, empowerment, and evaluation.
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3 weeks ago | 
unleash.ai | Lucy Buchholz
As the dust settles from the International Festival of HR and we reflect on the three-day event, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of content and knowledge that was shared. Of course, one of the key topics that everyone was talking about was AI. Whether you love it, loath it, or fear it, there’s no escaping the fact that it’s shaping the world of HR – and it’s here to stay.
