Time Inc. Saw a Hopeful Future With Meredith. Now They’re Seeking a New Savior.

Usually, for the scribes lucky enough to go, the Time 100 Gala is a chance to score selfies with selected A-listers and indulge in top-shelf liquor at an open bar.

But at this year’s event, which is on Tuesday, employees of the nation’s most famous newsweekly may come armed with another mission: sidling up to one of the black-tie billionaires in attendance and convincing them of how much fun it would be to stop being a guest at the annual fête at Lincoln Center and to start putting the party on themselves. READ MORE

Scouting Technology Helps Retailers Build Out Services

The team at Donovan Farmers Co-op has found success in using multiple tools to bring together a technology package to better serve its farmers with pest management tools.

“The more we adopt technology shows farmers that we are trying to provide better service,” says Craig Mackey agronomy manager at Donovan Farmers Co-op. “At the same time, technology is putting a lot of tools at our fingertips. We know we’ve found a useful tool when we can say, ‘I wish we had this last year.’” READ MORE

How to Implement Continuous Performance Management

If you're a manager or an HR professional, you've probably found yourself inundated with articles discussing annual performance reviews – specifically, articles about why you should abandon them immediately. There is a new way of doing things, and it's called continuous performance management. It incorporates real-time feedback, the allocation of short-term objectives and frequent developmental conversations for all employees. READ MORE

4 Steps to Modernizing Performance Management, the People-first Way

The past year witnessed a paradigm shift in performance assessment and upskilling. From yearly appraisals to bimonthly reviews, and then gradually progressing into a more bespoke model – in performance management, ‘disruption’ was the buzzword in 2017.

Let’s rewind a few years when performance management was still an emerging idea at best. Evaluations were still largely protocol based, linked more to compensation and rewards that towards productivity and engagement. Enter the millennials: this is a workforce segment that demands several incentives to prevent attrition. Besides adequate wages (the baseline), what’s needed is a sense of purpose and ample opportunities to upskill and push forward. READ MORE

Chicago Tech Funding Surpassed $124M in March

Chicago tech and startup companies saw a hefty increase in venture capital funding in March, compared to February, culminating in a strong finish to the year’s first quarter.

Over the course of the month, they collectively raised at least $124 million, according to data compiled by Chicago Inno. That’s 67 percent higher than in February, when Chicago tech raised about $74 million. READ MORE

Wells Fargo Divests Payroll Assets

Wells Fargo reached an agreement to sell assets of its Business Payroll Services unit to Asure Software, the companies said in a press release on Monday (April 2).

Asure, which offers human capital management (HCM) and workplace management software solutions, will acquire Wells Fargo Business Payroll Services’ Evolution HCM customer portfolio, the firm said, and business customers using Evolution HCM will be transferred to Asure Software for payroll services. READ MORE