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Breathe did its job. For a UK team of fifteen or twenty people stepping off spreadsheets, it’s a tidy, affordable way to track holidays, keep records in order and stay compliant without a heavyweight system. The trouble arrives later. Somewhere between your fortieth and your hundredth hire, you notice you’re running payroll in one product, […]

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I’ve run both of these platforms for real teams, and the HiBob vs BambooHR decision is one I’ve made from the inside. I set BambooHR up for a lean US company that wanted its records and time off in one tidy system within a month, and it did that job well. Years later I led […]

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Most companies hand sensitive data to dozens of outside vendors, from payroll providers to cloud hosts. When one of those vendors gets breached, the company that hired it still answers for the damage. Third party risk management software gives security and compliance teams one place to vet each vendor before signing and keep watch on […]

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How the leading autonomous penetration testing platforms validate every exploit before it reaches your dashboard Security teams seldom lose because a scanner missed a bug. They lose because the dashboard fills with findings nobody has proven. Astra Security has provided a comprehensive State of Pentesting 2026 report which built on 6.8 million findings across 8,000-plus […]

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Rippling sells one bundle for HR, IT, and finance, and the pitch lands well until an HR team reads the invoice. The base platform carries a low sticker price, then payroll, benefits, device management, and app provisioning each arrive as separate modules with their own per-employee fees. For a people team that wants a strong […]

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If your people team spent this year reading legislation rather than hiring, that is not a scheduling failure. Three pieces of European employment law took effect in 2026. A fourth arrives in December. They share a design principle most companies have not yet absorbed. The thread running through all of it: the burden of proof […]

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