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Nearly Half Of U.S. Companies Plan To Add Staff In The Second Half Of 2022

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46% are hiring for new roles; 45% will bring in more contract talentMore than 3 in 4 managers still worry about workers quitting

MENLO PARK, Calif., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The job market will remain strong for the latter part of 2022, research from talent solutions and business consulting firm Robert Half shows. According to the company’s State of U.S. Hiring Survey of more than 1,500 managers, 46% of respondents anticipate adding new permanent positions during the second half of the year; another 46% expect to fill vacated positions and only 8% foresee hiring freezes or layoffs.

Companies’ Plans for Hiring Permanent Staff

Second Half
2021

First Half
2022

Second Half
2022

Adding new positions

51 %

65 %

46 %

Filling vacated positions

48 %

33 %

46 %

Not adding new or filling vacated positions

2 %

2 %

6 %

Eliminating positions

0 %

1 %

2 %

Increased Demand for Contract and Early-Career Talent
Forty-five percent of managers across practice areas plan to bring in more contract professionals by year-end — especially in technology (60%) and finance and accounting (54%). In addition, 72% of employers intend to hire more entry-level or early-career professionals.

“Despite talk of an economic slowdown, many companies remain in hiring mode — and professionals with in-demand skills continue to have options,” said Robert Half senior executive director Paul McDonald. “In addition to staffing critical functions, employers are increasingly turning to contract talent to stay nimble while keeping projects moving forward and productivity high.”

View Robert Half’s Demand for Skilled Talent report for additional insight on hiring trends by profession.

Top Hiring Challenges and Strategies
According to the research, 88% of managers said it’s challenging to find skilled professionals, primarily due to a lack of qualified talent (38%) and candidates’ salary expectations being higher than what their company is willing to offer (22%).

In turn, employers who have the resources are using a range of recruiting tactics to win over skilled workers:

46% are increasing starting salaries.34% are providing signing bonuses.33% are offering remote options.31% are evaluating candidates outside of their company’s geography and allowing new hires to live anywhere.28% are loosening education, skills or experience requirements.

View a video and infographics of the research highlights.

Employers Brace for More Quits
More than half of managers (51%) reported an increase in voluntary turnover within their department in the last year. And nearly 8 in 10 (78%) are concerned about more employees quitting. Those in marketing and creative (84%) and finance and accounting (79%) are most likely to worry about resignations from their team.

McDonald noted, “As long as the job market favors workers, staff retention will continue to be a big concern for businesses. Doubling down on employee wellbeing, empowerment and development initiatives can go a long way toward building staff satisfaction and loyalty as the market fluctuates.”

About the Research
The online survey was developed by Robert Half and conducted by an independent research firm from June 17 to July 14, 2022. It includes responses from more than 1,500 managers with hiring responsibilities in finance and accounting, technology, marketing and creative, legal, administrative and customer support, and human resources at companies with 20 or more employees in the U.S.

About Robert Half
Robert Half (NYSE: RHI) is the world’s first and largest specialized talent solutions and business consulting firm that connects opportunities at great companies with highly skilled job seekers. Robert Half offers contract and permanent placement solutions and is the parent company of Protiviti®, a global consulting firm. Visit roberthalf.com and download the company’s award-winning mobile app.

 

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MatrixCare Becomes an Independent Company, Names Jonathan Lujan Chief Executive Officer

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Healthcare Technology Executive to Lead MatrixCare’s Next Phase of Growth and Product Innovation

BLOOMINGTON, Minn., Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — MatrixCare (the “Company”) today announced that it is now independent and named Jonathan Lujan as Chief Executive Officer. As a standalone company, MatrixCare gains greater flexibility, faster decision-making, and the ability to invest directly in the platform and innovation its customers rely on.

MatrixCare is a leading provider of cloud-based electronic health record (“EHR”) and revenue cycle management (“RCM”) solutions purpose-built for out-of-hospital care settings, including skilled nursing, senior living, home health, hospice, and life plan communities. A multi-year winner of the Best in KLAS award, MatrixCare is trusted by thousands of facility-based and home-based care organizations to improve provider efficiencies and promote a better quality of life for the people they serve.

Mr. Lujan brings deep experience across healthcare services and technology, with a proven track record of operational leadership, commercial transformation, and value creation. He most recently served as Chief Executive Officer of Sight Growth Partners, where he led the company’s operational transformation and growth into one of the nation’s largest ophthalmology management organizations. Previously, he served as Vice President and General Manager of Lifeline Vascular Care at DaVita and held multiple executive leadership roles at Surgical Information Systems, including Chief Growth Officer and Senior Vice President of Business Development and Strategy. Earlier in his career, Mr. Lujan held leadership positions at GE Healthcare and J.P. Morgan’s Healthcare Investment Banking Group.

“Today marks an important milestone for MatrixCare,” said Mr. Lujan, Chief Executive Officer of MatrixCare. “As an independent company, we have the focus and the resources to invest directly in our platform and our people. We will build on more than 40 years of trust earned with skilled nursing, senior living, home health, and hospice providers, and we will move faster to deliver the innovation our customers need. This is the start of MatrixCare’s next chapter, and I’m excited to lead the team into it.”

About MatrixCare:
MatrixCare provides software solutions to more than 15,000 providers supporting skilled nursing, senior living and long-term care, life plan communities, and home health and hospice care. A multi-year winner of the Best in KLAS award, MatrixCare is trusted by thousands of facility-based and home-based care organizations to improve provider efficiencies and promote a better quality of life for the people they serve. For more information, visit www.matrixcare.com.

MatrixCare Media Contact:
Laura Breton, Director, Marketing
Email: AskOurTeam@matrixcare.com

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BugBase Unveils Pentest Copilot Enterprise to Automate Black-Box Pentesting

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BugBase’s Pentest Copilot Enterprise maps attack surfaces, follows user journeys, and delivers validated vulnerabilities across applications, APIs, networks, and cloud.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ —  BugBase announced Pentest Copilot Enterprise, an autonomous black-box red teaming platform.

Recent public disclosures have underscored the need for organizations to continuously test and verify their cyber defenses as AI capabilities advance. Many regulated organizations cannot share source code with external pentesters. Others depend on costly, time-consuming manual black-box assessments that can take months to complete and are conducted only periodically.

Pentest Copilot Enterprise is built for that reality. It tests systems from the outside in, without source-code access, while maintaining authenticated context to find and validate meaningful weaknesses. Specialized agents operate in parallel across changing states, identities, and workflows.

Pentest Copilot maps pages, APIs, forms, accounts, access levels, and business functions, then executes iterative attacks across 100 vulnerability types, including authentication, authorization, injection, and complex business-logic flaws.

Real Chromium browsers reproduce authenticated user flows while preserving cookies, authentication tokens, CSRF state, and multiple identities. Agents navigate WAFs, bot-detection systems, CAPTCHA, T-OTP, email and phone verification, and magic links.

In BugBase-published testing, Pentest Copilot achieved 100% coverage of defined scope on OWASP Juice Shop and Broken Crystals. It also completed GOAD, NHA, and DRACARYS Active Directory labs, demonstrating coverage across web applications, APIs, internal networks, identity systems, and clouds.

“AI is changing the economics of attack, so security teams cannot depend on an annual, point-in-time test,” said Dhruva Goyal, Founder and CEO of BugBase. “Many organizations need the confidence of a real pentest without handing source code to a third party. Pentest Copilot tests from the outside in, follows the attack through, and proves the impact, so teams can find and fix weaknesses before an attacker does.”

Every reported vulnerability includes a reproducible proof of concept, validated evidence of impact, remediation guidance, compliance-ready reporting, and one-click retesting.

Pentest Copilot Enterprise is available as self-serve SaaS, a dedicated tenant, or an on-premises deployment.

Try it out today by creating an account or requesting a demo at copilot.bugbase.ai.

About BugBase

BugBase is an offensive security research company that helps organizations defend themselves through continuous, authorized testing against real-world attack paths. Its offerings include managed bug bounty and vulnerability-disclosure programs, expert-led pentesting services, and autonomous pentesting through Pentest Copilot.

For further information, contact queries@bugbase.ai.

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The Next Generation of Agent Assist is Here with Balto

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ST. LOUIS, Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Balto, the leading AI platform for contact centers and the company that invented the category of agent assist called real-time guidance in 2017, today officially unveiled RTG3 – the tool is being regarded as the future of agent assist – not for its first of its kind features, but also because it’s an agent assist that consistently delivers measurable ROI.

Introducing RTG3

RTG3 delivers what Balto describes as ambient agentic intelligence for the frontline contact center agents – an experience the contact center space has never seen before, and one that is being heralded as the future of agent assist.

The idea was born from a simple but powerful feeling: Making the agent app the central command center for the frontline by providing instant answers to information that’s impossible to memorize, the ability to search for information right on the app, and turning it into a personalized workspace, rather than just another screen/app on their desktop.

RTG3 brings that experience to the frontline contact center agent for the first time, within the context of their work. Rather than a single nudge tucked on the side of the screen, RTG3 is agentic intelligence that works on the agent’s behalf, automatically launching AI agents that gather the answers, customer context, and hard-to-find information a live conversation calls for, exactly when it’s needed. The result is a frontline agent with AI at their fingertips and the freedom to focus on the customer in front of them.

That power belongs to the agent. RTG3 is built for the frontline, designed to be made their own, personalized and arranged around how each person works best; not to monitor them, and not to replace them. It is Balto’s bet on humans and on what they are capable of when given the best possible tools. RTG3 is available today, free to existing Balto real-time guidance customers, through a fast and easy implementation.

Consistently delivers measurable ROI

Agent assist is the top investment priority for contact center leaders. According to industry-leading analysts in Customer Management Practice (CMP) Research, in the 2026–2027 year, 61% of leaders say they are going to invest in agent assist, making it the number one category, ahead of analytics and insights, chatbots and virtual agents, knowledge management, and automated QA.

Renowned for an excellent product suite, customer service and a platform that consistently delivers measurable ROI across multiple industries, Balto holds a 4.8-star rating across more than 600 reviews on G2 and Capterra, and has built RTG3 to meet that demand where the ROI actually lands: improved customer retention, agent to manager ratio, reduced agent turnover, accelerated ramp time, reducing handle time, better CSAT scores, and higher conversion rates.

“If you know there’s golden data, why are you waiting for somebody to go into your product, go to the interface and ask the question? Provide them with the data that you know is good,” says Balto CEO Marc Bernstein. That principle of putting that intelligence directly in front of the agent, rather than waiting for someone to ask, is at the heart of RTG3.

How RTG3 Works

RTG3 works today in the format contact center teams already know: the app is nestled in over the side of the screen and integrates with the CCaaS and UCaaS to start and stop automatically as calls come in and go out. For the first time, Balto is also introducing an intelligent agent desktop powered by ambient agentic intelligence for the frontline contact center agent.

Customer History before the call: The second a call comes through, Balto automatically populates the history of that customer by working through previous Balto conversations and transcripts. Agents immediately see why the customer is calling and their most recent call history. Customer History carries a 93% thumbs-up rating from agents.AI agents working in the background: When a customer mentions a city, Balto pulls local weather and sports. When a competitor comes up, it pulls that competitor’s reviews and surfaces the common complaints. In healthcare, when a provider is mentioned, Balto returns the provider’s name, specialty, practice address, and a link to their listing. All of it happens in the background while the agent keeps talking.Answers to questions impossible to memorize: Agents can ask Balto anything, including questions no one could reasonably memorize, such as pricing a plan for several hundred seats with the right discounts applied. Balto searches knowledge resources in Balto Cloud and can search a customer’s SharePoint. Every answer cites its source and deep links to the exact article, page, and section it came from.Real-time checklists are built as levers: The best AI checklists are not a full script; they are a few levers that let agents hit the metrics that matter: compliance requirements like verification, deeper discovery, and an assumptive ask or close. Agents can set completed items to auto-disappear, or keep them visible.A home base for the agent: Agents no longer have to navigate an obstacle course of tabs, CRMs, and Slack channels just to answer one customer question. RTG3 consolidates everything agents need–compliance, knowledge, workflows, and supervisor support–into one customizable workspace.Make it your own: RTG3 brings everything agents need into one place, and lets them make it their own. Agents can customize their layouts, pin what they use most, and personalize the look and feel of their workspace. Every agent can create a workspace that fits the way they work. If it works the way agents have longed for and they can personalize it, agents will use it.

Available and ready to use now

RTG3 is available now and free to existing Balto agent assist customers, with an implementation Balto describes as fast and low lift. Balto’s team stays involved through implementation and beyond, helping teams prepare documents so AI can read them accurately and connecting knowledge databases so agents can query the full knowledge base from inside Balto.

Customers are already seeing incredible results with a Health Insurance brokerage call discovery rose from below 20% to roughly 51%, with an approximate 10% increase in sales as RTG3 usage grew and a Home Improvement company’s new hire ramp to estimate certification dropped from about 90 days to 30.

Learn more about Balto Agent Assist.

About Balto

Balto is the #1 rated agent assist, QA automation, and agentic insights platform for contact centers, wrapped into a single platform where humans and AI work together. Founded in 2017, Balto was the first company to bring agent assist to market and has since deployed it across more than 300 customers and 500 million interactions. Balto is backed by Telescope Partners and Vista Equity Partners. Learn more at balto.ai

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