INSIGHTS BLOG

Explore Cornerstone’s learning, talent, content, skills, and AI capabilities, along with key considerations for implementation, integration, and optimization to help your organization maximize its Cornerstone investment.

Integrating your open enrollment platform with payroll is critical to ensuring accurate deductions, timely benefit coverage, and a seamless employee experience. Discover the best practices for planning, configuring, and testing payroll integrations to reduce risk and avoid costly errors during open enrollment.

A successful HRIS implementation doesn't end at go-live. Learn seven proven strategies to increase employee adoption of new HR software through executive sponsorship, phased rollouts, role-based training, change management, and measurable KPIs that drive higher utilization and long-term ROI.

Open enrollment is more than an annual enrollment event. It's an opportunity to help employees understand, access, and maximize the benefits your organization already provides. Learn why benefits communication matters, common reasons employees underutilize their benefits, and four key questions HR leaders should ask to improve engagement, simplify enrollment, and create a better employee experience.

Think your HCM has reached its limits? Before investing in a costly replacement, it may be worth taking a closer look at how you're using the technology you already have. Many organizations struggle with manual processes, low user adoption, reporting challenges, and underutilized functionality that can often be addressed through optimization rather than a new platform. Learn five practical ways to improve efficiency, enhance the employee experience, and maximize the value of

Hospitality organizations face constant workforce challenges, from fluctuating demand and rising labor costs to employee retention and compliance requirements. Learn how modern HRIS solutions help hospitality leaders optimize scheduling, improve labor forecasting, control costs, and create a better employee experience while maintaining exceptional service levels.

Workforce data is reshaping employment litigation. Learn how payroll records, timekeeping data, compliance reporting, and workforce analytics are playing a growing role in wage-and-hour disputes and class action lawsuits.

Learn how organizations can reduce HCM implementation costs through smarter planning, phased deployment, and focused decision-making without sacrificing long-term success.

Higher education institutions are facing increasing workforce complexity across departments, campuses, and roles. Many are still managing hiring, staffing, and workforce data through disconnected systems, limiting visibility and slowing decision-making. Modern HCM is changing that by creating a more connected, efficient, and strategic approach to workforce management.

UKG is a leading HCM platform designed to support organizations with complex workforce and payroll needs. This guide explores its core features, key advantages, and why organizations implement UKG to streamline operations and improve workforce visibility.

Most HR technology investments are under-optimized. Learn the top 3 blind spots CHROs must address in 2026 to improve workforce planning, AI adoption, and business outcomes.

Construction organizations operate in one of the most complex workforce environments of any industry. Labor shortages, job site mobility, safety compliance, and project-based staffing all place significant demands on HR teams. When HR tech systems are properly aligned with construction operations, technology can help organizations manage these challenges more effectively.

Dayforce is one of the most recognized unified HCM platforms on the market, combining payroll, HR, workforce management, and talent tools into a single system powered by a real-time calculation engine. For organizations with complex payroll environments or multi-state operations, its architecture can provide stronger compliance visibility and more accurate workforce data. In this comprehensive review, we examine Dayforce features, pricing considerations, implementation timel

In healthcare, workforce decisions affect patient outcomes, caregiver wellbeing, compliance, and financial performance. Yet many organizations lack clear visibility into staffing, credentials, and labor costs, forcing reactive decisions that increase risk and expense. With the right HR technology and strategy, healthcare leaders can gain real-time workforce insight, control labor costs, and align staffing with patient care needs.

Paycom is a leading US-based HCM platform known for its single-database design and employee-driven payroll model. In this review, ROCKCREST shares firsthand insights into Paycom’s functionality, strengths, considerations, pricing, and ideal use cases.

AI has been discussed as a future innovation for years, but that future is already here. Today’s HCM platforms are actively using AI to improve recruiting, onboarding, workforce insights, and employee support. The real challenge is not adoption, but realistic and responsible use. When applied correctly, AI removes friction, improves accuracy, and gives HR teams time back to focus on people, not processes.

As HRIS technology heads into 2026, the market is no longer defined by new features, but by consequences. AI governance, skills volatility, and vendor consolidation are reshaping how HR leaders make platform decisions. In this post, Richard des Moulins shares six predictions grounded in what organizations are actually funding, implementing, and struggling to operationalize.

2025 marked a turning point for HRIS as agentic AI shifted platforms from systems of record to engines that work alongside HR teams, shaping buying and deployment decisions.