by Doug Patten | 2025-08-24 | Compliance, HR, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
A fast-rising wave of state and local policy is reshaping how organizations use AI in people decisions, and small to medium-sized businesses need to pay attention now. California’s proposed “No Robo Bosses Act” (SB 7) would curb over-reliance on...
by Doug Patten | 2025-08-17 | Enterprise Solutions, Generative AI, HR, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
If it feels like work has gotten messier, you’re not imagining it. Most companies – especially small and mid-sized ones – are juggling higher customer expectations, tighter budgets, and a nonstop stream of “must-do” tasks that crowd out real progress. The...
by Doug Patten | 2025-08-10 | Generative AI, HR, Recruitment, SMBs
The conversation around AI in HR often gets stuck in a false choice — replace people with machines or risk falling behind. But that framing misses a critical reality: the organizations seeing the biggest long-term benefits aren’t automating humans out of the...
by Doug Patten | 2025-08-04 | Generative AI, HR, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
In today’s labor-tight, regulation-heavy, and resource-constrained environment, organizations — especially small and mid-sized ones — are being asked to do more with less. Nowhere is this reality more crushing than in HR departments, where one or two people are...
by Doug Patten | 2025-07-27 | Generative AI, HR, overview, SMBs
There’s never been a better — or more critical — time for SMBs to rethink how HR gets done. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Intelligent DataWorks (IDW) is officially live and actively onboarding pilot users to our AssistX HR platform: an AI-powered...
by Doug Patten | 2025-07-20 | Compliance, HR, SMBs, Training
At a recent concert, a tech company’s leadership team became the center of an unexpected firestorm when the CEO and Chief People Officer were caught in an intimate moment on the venue’s public camera. What should have been a fun, yet forgettable evening...
by Doug Patten | 2025-07-14 | Compliance, HR, SMBs, Talent Acquisition, Uncategorized
Picture this: It’s 3 PM on a Friday, and your HR manager is still buried under a mountain of 200 resumes for a critical marketing position. The phone keeps ringing with questions about benefits, onboarding paperwork sits unfinished on her desk, and compliance...
by Doug Patten | 2025-07-06 | Generative AI, HR, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
Your HR team just wrapped up another exhausting week of screening candidates. Between the 200 applications for that marketing role and the dozens of phone interviews, you’re feeling cautiously optimistic about a few promising prospects. But here’s a...
by Doug Patten | 2025-06-28 | HR, SMBs
Small business owners know the struggle intimately. You need more hands on deck, but every new salary cuts deeper into margins already stretched thin. Meanwhile, your existing team is drowning in work, and hiring full-time employees feels like a luxury you can’t...
by Doug Patten | 2025-06-22 | Compliance, HR, products, SMBs
When Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy recently confirmed that AI investments are enabling them to reduce corporate headcount while dramatically boosting efficiency, the business world took notice. But while headlines focused on job displacement at one of the...
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