The Job Board isn’t Dead. The Business Model is.
As the traditional job board model dies, the ecosystem built on job traffic and arbitrage is under pressure to...
Category: Worktech
The Platform Gravity Belt: Core HR, HRIS, Payroll, Benefits, and Financial Wellness Read Together
There is a category cluster in HR and Work Tech that never followed the script. While funding peaked in...
Phenom Acquires Plum. The Science Is Serious. Here’s What to Watch.
Phenom just made its second acquisition in the behavioral science and assessments space in roughly ten weeks. BeApplied came...
The Market Has Already Voted: The Categories Where the Window Is Closed
There is a particular kind of expensive mistake that happens in markets moving this fast. It is not the...
The Market Windows Are Moving
The HR and Work Tech market has always had winners and losers. What’s different now is the speed and...
Kashable’s $60M Series C: What Goldman Sachs Backing Tells Us About Financial Wellness as a Category
Q1 2026 was a notable quarter in Global HR Tech funding, notable partly for what was missing. Mid-stage deals,...
Voice Is the New Interface. Greenhouse Just Made Its Move, Acquires Ezra AI Labs
Here is a data point worth sitting with for a moment. In March 2026, a company called Ezra closed...
The Severance Problem: iCIMS and the Identity Crisis Every Legacy ATS Is About to Face
Spoiler alert. You decide whether the spoilers are for Severance or iCIMS. I spent a day at iCIMS headquarters...
The Anthropic Pricing Shift Is a Reckoning That Work Tech Can’t Ignore
When Anthropic announced its enterprise pricing changes earlier this month, most observers missed what was actually happening. They saw...
Work Tech M&A in Q1 2026: Platform Extension, AI Capability Buying, and a Market Building From Both Ends
WorkTech tracked 40 Work Tech M&A transactions in Q1 2026. Platform extension, AI capability buying, and consolidation across four...