This infographic explores the growing reality of “Shadow AI” in the workplace, where employees are already adopting AI tools independently due to unclear organizational guidance and governance. It highlights how the absence of a defined AI strategy creates exposure across […]
Workforce Management in the Age of Unknowns
Most workforce management strategies are built for predictability. Maybe that’s the problem. In 2026, that thinking may now be a liability as the defining WFM challenges instead seem to be managing what dashboards can’t show you, AI workforce transformation is […]
Infographic: Kansas City Royals + Dayforce – A Payroll Transformation Case Study
This infographic examines how the Kansas City Royals navigated a complex payroll transformation with Dayforce amid seasonal workforce fluctuations, unionization, and multi-state compliance demands. Rather than simply migrating systems, the organization rebuilt payroll and HR workflows from the ground up, […]
Analyst Insight: Building Cultures of Trust in the Age of AI
There’s a significant connection between attracting and retaining top talent and compliance. The Great Place to Work’s trust model emphasizes that employees experience a “great workplace” when they trust leadership, feel pride in their work, and experience camaraderie with colleagues. […]
Analyst Insight: Takeaways From Our State of HR Compliance Survey with Mitratech
Across a recent 3Sixty Insights survey of 500 respondents, sentiment about HR and organizational health looked strong on the surface. While 75% of respondents—with 2 in 5 (38%) employed in HR—said they were satisfied with HR’s performance and their company’s […]
Benchmark Report: State of HR Compliance 2026 – Benchmark Findings on Confidence, Complexity, and the AI Effect
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Across a survey of 500 U.S. professionals involved in HR and HR-related decision-making, organizations report strong confidence in their ability to manage HR compliance. Nearly three-quarters of respondents say they’re satisfied with how well their organization stays on […]
The Growing Gap Between Vendor Messaging and Organizational Reality
At 3Sixty Insights, we have a dedicated practice focused on HR, Benefits, and Payroll. Over the past several years, we have seen a clear shift in how organizations in this space position themselves in the market. The messaging has evolved […]
Analyst Insight: Workforce Management in the Age of Unknown
For decades, workforce management (WFM) meant controlling known variables like labor costs, scheduling, and compliance thresholds. That framing is now a liability. The defining WFM challenge of 2026 isn’t managing what you know—it’s preparing for what you don’t. As AI […]
Market Alert: Salary.com Launches Max Model
What It Is Early this week, Salary.com announced its new Max model, an AI layer for compensation workflows. Max is the latest addition to the CompAnalyst AI Suite and represents the company’s most significant product evolution since its founding in […]
Analyst Insight: UKG Report on AI and the Frontline Workforce
I really liked this recent report from UKG, More Perspectives from the Frontline Workforce, which echoed topics CEO Jenn Morgan raised during UKG’s Analyst Day, where she didn’t shy away from the stark challenges facing the US economy and workforce […]
Case Study: Turning Time & Attendance into a Strategic Asset
What You Need to Know Mergers and acquisitions are a powerful growth strategy, particularly from a workforce perspective. Acquiring an established business allows a parent company to inherit an experienced workforce in a new territory rather than building one from […]
Infographic: Behavioral Signals in Hiring – How Fama Helps Identify Misconduct Before Day One
This infographic outlines the rising risk of workplace misconduct and the growing limitations of traditional hiring methods in identifying it. With misconduct rates increasing year over year and even small incidents driving significant impacts on productivity, retention, and culture, organizations […]
How Social Media and Behavioral Insights Are Helping Employers Detect Misconduct Before Day One
All business leaders have been there: a candidate looks great on paper, so you invest in hiring them, but once on board, they fail to meet expectations. 50% of today’s workers are digital natives, and with this number expected to […]
Analyst Insight: From Automation to Orchestration – How Phenom Is Rebuilding the Hiring Stack as Adaptive AI Infrastructure
Phenom Looks Toward Hiring Infrastructure Phenom unveiled a sweeping architectural overhaul at IAMPHENOM 2026 in Philadelphia and showed off results that showcase the true effectiveness of AI in HR workflows. Phenom opened this year’s IAMPHENOM user conference by pitching a […]
Research Agenda: Bridging Leadership and Labor – 3Sixty Insights’ 2026 Combined Workforce Agenda
The future of work is no longer a theoretical concept touching artificial intelligence, remote work or skills transformation. Instead, it has become an operational reality at a time when managers are stretched beyond capacity, employee engagement is declining, compliance complexity […]
Nicole Roberts Contributes Analyst Perspective to HR Voices 2026 Compliance Report
As HR compliance grows more complex in 2026, Nicole Roberts, Principal HR Industry Analyst at 3Sixty Insights, emphasizes a critical reality: compliance technology is only as effective as the expertise guiding it. In the HR Voices: 2026 Regulatory Transformations and […]
Research Agenda: Workforce Strategy, HR Enablement & HR Technology in an AI-Augmented World
Analyst Overview Nicole brings more than 20 years of senior HR leadership experience, including serving as Chief People Officer and the first HR executive at several high-growth, private-equity–backed, and multi-site organizations. She has built HR functions from the ground up, […]
Analyst Insight: From Skill to Practice – Why Manager Enablement Is Becoming HR’s Most Critical System Design Challenge
In a recent HRTechChat podcast conversation with Jeff Smith, PhD, COO of AI-powered performance management platform 15Five, a consistent theme emerged: the future of performance management and manager enablement will not be driven by more training, frameworks, or one-time interventions. […]
Community, Purpose, and the Time AI Gives Back
If you had ten more hours a week starting tomorrow, what would you do with them? Why not start now? A Hundred-Year-Old Warning About the Future of Work In 1930, right in the middle of the Great Depression, John Maynard […]
AI Onboarding Is Becoming as Important as Employee Onboarding
AI is on, but the value is inconsistent. Across GTM teams, AI is everywhere. Copilots draft messages, models prioritize accounts, systems suggest next best actions, and forecasts increasingly rely on machine-driven insight. And yet, a familiar refrain keeps surfacing in […]
