Irvine, California’s employment background check firm HireRight recently won the Association of Talent Development’s BEST Awards, receiving the honor at a Washington, D.C. ceremony in a nod to its employee development and performance programs.

Paychex has joined a coalition of over 230 private-sector employers as a member of the Veterans Jobs Mission, a group of employers that has committed to helping veterans find meaningful employment and to hiring over 1 million former U.S. military members.

Amazon is on track in keeping with its pledge to hire 25,000 veterans and their spouses by 2021, as the company now reaches over 17,500 veteran employees with plans to hire over 10,000 more within the next four years.

Kronos Inc. has been recognized by Frost & Sullivan with the 2017 Market Leadership Award for its North American health care workforce management IT market analysis.

Two of the world’s largest military-focused online networks, CareerBuilder and Rally Point, have recently partnered in a move that will bring together a network of hundreds of thousands of employers to connect with 1.4 million military members.

Simon & Schuster has just released human resources industry veteran Todd Davis’ book, "Get Better: 15 Proven Practices to Build Effective Relationships at Work," which focuses on the importance of quality relationships in the workplace culture.

The issue of ineffective management is often sidestepped, says XpertHR; so the New Jersey-based company recently published a whitepaper on supervisor training for the benefit of various workforce sectors.

California-based CPS HR Consulting, providing HR solutions to government and nonprofits nationwide, recently divulged study findings obtained from its "Driving Employee Engagement: Results from a 2016 National Survey” and identifying trends at a national level.

Webster's dictionary defines empathy as “the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner.”

BGRS has released its annual Talent Mobility Trends Survey for the 22nd year in a row, with findings showing that employee mobility has become a high priority for senior human resource leaders and company leadership’s agenda.

Millennials have become the largest demographic in the small business work pool, so Paychex and HIS Markit recently collaborated on a study crunching the numbers regarding full-time employees in that population and analyzing the results.

Benefits and payroll services provider BenefitMall continues to maintain its industry lead according to recent results revealed by BestPayrollServices.com, ranking as both No. 1 Payroll Service and No. 1 Workforce Solution for three years running.

For the second year in a row, human capital management consulting firm HRchitect of Frisco, Texas has earned certification status from Great Place to Work analysts.

Scoring strongly in solidarity, leadership, equity and reward factors, California-based career transition specialty firm RiseSmart recently achieved a top ranking — among the “2017 Best Small and Medium Workplaces” by Great Place to Work and Fortune.

Teaming up with Professionals In Human Resources Association, lactation and early parenting resource DayOne Baby recently orchestrated onsite services at a Long Beach Convention Center conference, easing the travel experience for new mothers.

Career transition services company's RiseSmart's Insight product – developed for corporate HR teams – has been named a Top HR Product of 2017 by Human Resource Executive.

Hormel Foods has received a silver Stevie Award in the Employer of the Year – Food and Beverage Category.

Cloud-based human capital management (HCM) provider Ultimate Software of Weston, Florida recently attained the highest possible customer satisfaction rating for its automated management and payroll software systems, according to business software reviewer G2 Crowd Inc.

The Miami Heat has entered a jersey sponsor partnership with Ultimate Software, a human capital management system headquartered in South Florida.

Toronto-based human capital management (HCM) company Ultimate Software recently scored an award as best industry service provider with a 2017 Readers Choice award from Human Resources Director Magazine, a bi-monthly publication pinpointing industry trends and practices.