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83% of employees want a workplace that feels like a community. That doesn’t happen by accident. It happens by design—HR’s design. From onboarding to manager enablement to culture rituals, HR is the invisible thread shaping how people feel at work every single day. Now’s the time to recognize them. Nominate an HR leader who’s turned workplaces into communities for their chance to win a Palm Springs Weekend Giveaway 🌴https://lnkd.in/g3XA7KCE

Last month at Slush we co-hosted a brilliant panel discussion on the future of global talent, international hiring and what it really takes to build a borderless team. Huge thanks to Cal Henderson (Slack), Miia Laukkarinen (Erevena) and Frazer Williamson (AlphaSense)  for sharing such sharp insights and honesty! Key things we are took from the learnings:  🌍 EOR is becoming the global scaling cheat code. Not just compliance but a strategic unlock when you truly understand contracts, mobility and local employment nuance. 🤝 Culture doesn’t stop at the border. The best global teams keep a strong core culture while letting local hubs maintain their own character. 💡 Real collaboration still happens in person. Remote-first will continue, but creativity, trust and connection still rely on face-to-face time. 🤖 AI is transforming hiring, changing not just how we source talent, but how we think about team design and skills. 🧩 And one more big learning: global teams only work when the operations do. Companies consistently underestimate the operational and compliance hurdles of going global — from payroll and entity setup to mobility and local expectations. The teams who succeed build this infrastructure early. If you’re planning to hire internationally, now’s the moment to prepare for 2026. Ask yourself this questions: • Which markets will give us an edge two years from now? • How do we scale without building legal or cultural debt? • What hybrid of remote and in-person collaboration do we want to invest in? • Are our systems ready for an AI-shaped talent landscape? The future of global hiring is already unfolding and the teams planning ahead will win. Special shout-out to our wonderful partners for this event Wave Ventures and Elva ❤️

Raising a seed round is intense—whether you have 12 weeks or 12 months. We wanted to see what it actually looks like from the inside. So we gave one of our customers Sky Yang, co-founder at Imagine AI (YC F25), a camera and asked him to document three days of back-to-back investor meetings ahead of Y Combinator Demo Day while the team was still shipping product and acquiring customers. What he captured: the real work of building conviction with investors. No highlight reel. Just the grind. If you're raising (or planning to), this is worth watching.

🚀 We are thrilled to welcome two new engineering leaders to Rippling: Gang Wang and Wan Agus! As companies scale, many hit a wall trying to grow their product footprint. They start with a solid foundation—but as they add more, systems sprawl, teams fragment, and innovation slows. Gang and Wan bring decades of experience building and scaling complex platforms. Their leadership will help us move faster, build deeper, and continue delivering the powerful products our customers rely on every day. Wan will lead teams building advanced capabilities in device management, identity, access, and application workflows, advancing Rippling’s vision of a single, integrated IT platform for businesses around the world. Gang will play a critical role in accelerating product development across the company’s unified financial platform for businesses including global payroll, tax filing services, compliance, and spend management products. Welcome, Gang and Wan! 👏 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gv32WGQR

And our week 3 #RipplingHRHero winner is... 🥁 Cleo Valeroso, CDR — Chief People Officer at AI Squared!🕺 As a true Automation All-Star, Cleo has redefined what modern People leadership looks like. She: 📊 Built a data-driven People model that sharpened hiring and reduced attrition 🤖 Launched an AI HR assistant that saves time and empowers employees 🌍 Unified global HR, IT & compliance systems to eliminate manual work Know an HR Hero like Cleo? Nominate them today: https://lnkd.in/g3XA7KCE

Huge congrats to Cleo Valeroso, CDR, our Chief People Officer, for being named a 2025 HR Hero and Automation All-Star by Rippling! Cleo has completely transformed our People function at AI Squared. She built a data-informed operating model with real-time workforce dashboards that improved our hiring velocity, flagged retention risks early, and helped leaders make faster, better decisions. She also brought AI-powered automation to our employee lifecycle. Our internal HR assistants, Claire and Suni, now handle most employee inquiries with high accuracy, dramatically cutting response times and improving satisfaction. Beyond that, Cleo unified our global HR, IT, and compliance systems onto one platform, eliminating redundancies and creating clean data across countries. The impact? Better onboarding, faster cross-border hiring, and measurable time and cost savings. Cleo's work shows that HR can be both human and data-driven. Well deserved, Cleo! #RipplingHRHero #HR #Rippling

HR isn’t the “compliance police” anymore. It’s strategic. It’s empathetic. It’s 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯. And People Pioneer Haley ONeill embodies exactly that! 👇 Here's her take on why the future of HR is built in 30-second moments of real connection.

🌟 Rippling wins big in the G2 Winter 2025 Awards! 🌟 Rippling is starting 2026 on a high note with an incredible showing in the G2 Winter 2025 Awards! 🏆 Here’s what we’re celebrating: ✨#1 in HCM ✨#1 in Core HR ✨#1 in Workforce Management ✨#1 in HR Analytics ✨ #1 Performance Management ✨ 10 other #1 Grid Leader placements And that’s not all—we’ve hit some impressive milestones: ➡️ 1,067 reports — our highest yet! ➡️ #1 in 313 reports — our highest yet! ➡️ 678 total badges — another all-time record! These wins reflect the trust we’ve earned from our customers. To everyone who shared reviews, feedback, and support: thank you for helping us build the #1 Workforce Management platform on G2 🙌

Rippling has been cooking this holiday season 🧑🍳 Savor updates that help you run your business more smoothly, all in this month’s Rippling Rundown 👉 rippling.com/nov-rundown