Personio has unveiled new central inbox tool, designed to help you minimize the noise and focus on the right HR-related tasks at the right time. Let us tell you a bit more about how we built it and how it can benefit your teams It streamlines the constant flow of work items, such as tasks, approvals and notifications. All of the things that teams deal with every single day, clearly placed into a prioritised list to help you take action on them. Right from the helpful inbox widget, you can swiftly action tasks from your homepage or click into a new full-screen experience to review critical details and go a step deeper. Whether it’s reviewing vacation balances for time-off, ensuring certificates are uploaded when approving sick leave requests or monitoring any issues with attendance when approving time tracking logs. You’ll have all of the details you need, right where you need them.

ESET has upgraded its consumer antivirus ESET HOME Security. Among the new marvels are ESET Folder Guard — which, one imagines, stands sternly in front of your files like an overzealous bouncer — and Multithread Scanning, a feature that sounds like it should require goggles and a lab coat. These improvements aim to thwart the ever-growing hordes of AI-driven cyber nasties, from ransomware to phishing scams, which now evolve faster than a hyperactive soap opera plot. Naturally, it runs on all major operating systems — Windows, macOS, Android, iOS — and watches over smart home devices like a digital nanny with trust issues. Even old favorites like the Link Scanner and Password Manager got a tune-up, presumably because ESET figured the internet wasn’t getting any less terrifying.

TeamViewer has announced an integration with Google Meet, enabling seamless remote support and enhancing workplace collaboration. Now, instead of the traditional "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" shouted across a video call, IT wizards can swoop in mid-meeting, take over the problem child computer and wrestle it into submission without anyone needing to install anything or — heaven forbid — open a second app. End-users, blissfully unaware of the technological sorcery happening behind the scenes, get whisked into the session via an automatic download that happens faster than you can say "Why isn’t my camera working?" The whole setup transforms tech support from an awkward back-and-forth into a seamless, slightly uncanny display of remote omnipresence, leaving more time for teams to get back to the important business of pretending to pay attention.

ServiceNow is to acquire (for $2.85 billion) Moveworks, which develops enterprise-focused automation and AI tools. The idea is to build a platform that combines ServiceNow’s agentic AI and automation strengths with Moveworks’ AI assistant and enterprise search technology. Mountain View-based Moveworks came out of stealth in 2019 with an application to help enterprise customers automate high-level IT support. Over the years, the startup expanded its product portfolio to address various lines of business, including HR, finance and facilities management.

UiPath has released the enhanced agent for Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams, allowing joint customers access to UiPath enterprise-grade automation capabilities from anywhere they use Copilot for Microsoft 365 or Teams. It's built on UiPath’s own large language model-based digital assistant Autopilot and its web app Orchestrator. Autopilot can also access UI or API automations built by a user or by their organization’s center of excellence and easily run them as part of a user’s workflow. The agent will help workers to interact directly with UiPath Autopilot from Teams and will offer a broad range of capabilities, like suggesting which automations are needed to complete tasks, filling out parameters from context, recommending next steps and stitching together automations to automate complex workflows. Employees benefit from adding UiPath Autopilot as a collaborator while staying in Teams where they’re already working, while making use of enterprise knowledge via access to Microsoft Graph and the robust set of automations from UiPath’s platform.

Skype's official X-Twitter account announced that the messenger will shut down in May 2025, encouraging users to switch to Microsoft Teams. Skype was launched in 2003. Microsoft acquired Skype in 2011 for $8.5 billion and since then, the company has been gradually abandoning its own communications products, such as Windows Live Messenger. In 2015 Skype was integrate into Windows 10, but the integration was unsuccessful. In 2017, Microsoft introduced Teams - an enterprise communications platform based on Skype technology, to compete with services like Slack. Since then the company has been pushing Teams hard, which became evident with the release of Windows 11, where Teams, not Skype, received deep integration into the operation system.

In a world where freelancers are navigating the vast, treacherous sea of commissions, delays and the looming specter of unfair disputes, traditional platforms like Fiverr and Upwork have earned their reputation as rather unhelpful lifeboats - often charging fees so high they’d make a bank robber blush and taking their sweet time with payments like a cat deciding whether or not to knock something off a shelf. The new freelance marketplace Bloclance wants to turn the freelancing universe upside down with blockchain. By harnessing the power of smart contracts on the Base network—a particularly snazzy Ethereum L2 blockchain—Bloclance allows freelancers and clients to engage in agreements that are as transparent as a freshly cleaned window. The system automatically releases payment when milestones are hit. And unlike the traditional platforms that greedily pocket up to 25% of the spoils, Bloclance just gets on with it, ensuring everyone gets their fair share without the wallet-emptying theatrics.

Recruiting software Greenhouse has added new tools that help HR specialists schedule faster and interview better. In particular they allow to give candidates the freedom to reschedule their self-scheduled interviews, customise availability requests and self-schedule pages with your company's branding, build reports based on scheduling activities, automatically suggest a time that works for all interviewers directly after a candidate submits their availability, gain more control over your calendar with the ability to set interview time preferences, auto-replace interviewers if there’s a conflict by building interview groups in advance, strengthen candidate interviews with tools to manage interviewer training, use customisable dashboards to highlight the metrics that matter most to your organisation.