SYDNEY, July 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As labour shortages, workforce turnover and compliance pressures continue to challenge frontline employers, Humanforce has developed two new solutions designed to help organisations identify workforce risks earlier and automate one of HR’s most time-consuming administrative tasks.

Humanforce today announced the launch of Humanforce HR Analytics and Humanforce Learning, expanding its workforce management platform with AI-native tools built to analyse, interpret and act on workforce data, providing greater visibility into workforce trends, automating compliance training and help HR teams make more informed people decisions.

For many frontline organisations, workforce data remains fragmented across multiple systems, while mandatory training still relies on manual assignment, follow-up and record-keeping. At the same time, HR teams are being asked to manage growing compliance obligations, skills shortages and employee retention challenges with limited resources.

According to research from SHRM, more than 70 per cent of jobs globally are frontline or deskless, yet these workers have historically been underserved by traditional HR technology. The organisation also reports that 86 per cent of HR managers view training as critical to employee retention, despite compliance training remaining one of the most labour-intensive and manually managed processes for many employers.

“Frontline organisations are under pressure to do more than fill shifts,” said Clayton Pyne, CEO, Humanforce. “They need to understand where people risks are emerging, keep teams compliant, and make development part of everyday workforce operations. HR Analytics and Humanforce Learning give HR leaders and managers clearer visibility and more automated action, so they can spend less time chasing data and more time making confident people decisions.”

Humanforce HR Analytics: Workforce insight built for frontline HR teams

For many frontline HR teams, workforce reporting is a backward-looking exercise, requiring data to be extracted from multiple systems before it can be analysed and acted upon.

Humanforce HR Analytics is built with AI at its core, continuously analysing workforce data to surface trends, detect anomalies and flag emerging risks before they require escalation.

HR leaders can ask questions of their workforce data in natural language and receive instant, AI-generated answers, while custom dashboards, automated reporting and threshold-based alerts ensure critical workforce information remains visible and actionable.

“HR leaders shouldn’t have to wait until a monthly report lands on their desk to identify emerging workforce issues,” said Pyne. “Because AI is doing the analysis continuously, not periodically, organisations have more opportunity to address risks around compliance, retention, workforce planning and employee engagement before they become larger operational challenges.”

Humanforce Learning: Automating compliance training and workforce development

Alongside HR Analytics, Humanforce Learning aims to remove the manual administration traditionally associated with compliance and workforce training.

Integrated directly with Humanforce HR data, the platform automatically assigns learning when workforce changes occur, from induction for new employees, to role changes, internal transfers and compliance renewal requirements, ensuring every employee is roster-ready with the qualifications and training their role demands. Training completion records are automatically linked to employee profiles, creating a clear audit trail while giving managers visibility into training status, upcoming requirements and overdue learning activities.

“Training and compliance shouldn’t rely on someone remembering to manually assign courses every time an employee changes roles or joins the business,” said Pyne. “When learning is connected directly to workforce events, organisations can reduce administrative overhead while improving confidence that every employee is qualified, compliant and ready to work.”

A more connected view of workforce readiness

Training and compliance data generated through Humanforce Learning is surfaced within Humanforce HR Analytics alongside broader workforce metrics, providing HR leaders with a more connected view of workforce capability, readiness and compliance status.

Together, HR Analytics and Humanforce Learning reflect Humanforce’s ongoing investment in the Humanforce platform, built around how shift-based work actually operates. By bringing workforce insight and learning automation closer to core HR workflows, Humanforce is helping frontline employers reduce manual administration, improve compliance visibility and respond to workforce challenges more proactively.

Humanforce HR Analytics and Humanforce Learning are available now. For more information, visit humanforce.com.

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About Humanforce

Humanforce provides the market leading, employee-centred, intelligent and compliant HCM suite for frontline and flexible workforces, offering highly configurable, all-in-one WFM, HR, Talent, Benefits and Payroll – without compromise. Our vision is to make work easier and life better by focusing on the employee experience (EX), and the efficiency and optimisation of businesses.

Founded in 2002, Humanforce has a 2300-strong customer base and is heading towards one million employees under management, across a wide range of industries including Aged Care, Childcare, Healthcare, Retail, Hospitality, Events & Stadia, Local Government and more. Today, we have offices across Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the Philippines, and the USA.

Customers include Accor, Flight Centre, Hungry Jack’s, Vodafone, Fujitsu, Alfred Health, Hostplus and more: https://humanforce.com

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BTC Yield gives long-term Bitcoin holders a new way to seek potential weekly BTC income through a strategy from traditional finance

ISLAMABAD , July 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Binance today announced the launch of BTC Yield, a new addition to its Advanced Earn product lineup. BTC Yield is a BTC-denominated, open-ended strategy designed for long-term Bitcoin holders seeking income potential without actively trading the market.

BTC Yield is among the first covered-call Bitcoin income products offered directly to both retail and institutional users by a major crypto exchange. Bitcoin does not have a native staking mechanism, creating demand for ways for long-term holders to seek income from their BTC.

This launch also reflects broader demand for Bitcoin income strategies in traditional finance. Covered call approaches are well established in institutional markets, and products such as the NEOS Bitcoin High Income ETF and BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF have attracted significant assets. Goldman Sachs has also filed to launch a Bitcoin yield product, underscoring continued demand for Bitcoin income strategies.

By bringing this strategy into a streamlined crypto-native format, Binance is making it easier for users to access a familiar income approach within a single platform as it continues to expand beyond trading into a broader financial super app.

“BTC Yield underscores Binance’s focus on expanding the range of products available to users and giving them more ways to put their digital assets to work,” said Shunyet Jan, Head of Exchange and Trading at Binance. “Covered call strategies have long been used in traditional finance, but they can be complex for retail users to access directly. With BTC Yield, we are simplifying that experience for Bitcoin holders who want income potential without actively trading the market.”

“During periods of weaker market sentiment, many Bitcoin holders may be reluctant to sell or actively trade. BTC Yield gives long-term holders a simpler way to seek potential income while maintaining exposure denominated in Bitcoin,” he added.

Key product information:

BTC Yield is powered by a covered call strategy that seeks to generate option premiums from Bitcoin holdings.Users subscribe with BTC to receive BTCY and may benefit through weekly BTC distributions. Remaining premiums are retained in the product, which may increase the convertible BTC value of each BTCY over time.BTCY has no fixed maturity date and supports both Fast Redemption (T+1) and Standard Redemption.BTC Yield offers simple access, APY potential, and large quotas for eligible users.BTC Yield complements other Earn products such as Dual Investment and Discount Buy.

Important information: As an options-based strategy, BTC Yield carries risks and is not principal protected. Weekly BTC distributions are not guaranteed and users may receive back less BTC than they originally allocated. The covered call strategy may limit participation in upward BTC price movements, meaning BTC Yield may underperform a direct holding of BTC, particularly in strongly rising markets.

Disclaimer: Digital asset prices can be highly volatile. The value attributable to your BTCY strategy position may go down or up, and you may not receive back the amount of BTC you allocated. By participating in BTC Yield, you are converting your subscribed BTC to BTCY. BTC Yield is not capital protected, and you may lose some or all of your BTC. Any BTC Credits, APY, realised APY, illustrative yield, or similar figures shown in connection with BTCY are for information purposes only, are not guaranteed, may be zero, and refer to BTC-denominated amounts only rather than actual or predicted returns in fiat or any other digital asset. BTC Yield uses a strategy that may underperform holding BTC directly, including in periods of strong BTC price appreciation. When you exit BTC Yield, the amount of BTC returned to you will depend on the applicable valuation at the relevant processing time, and this may be higher or lower than the valuation shown when you submitted your request. Fast Exit may be unavailable, and Standard Exit may be subject to processing windows, capacity limits, delays and fees. Binance does not provide financial, legal, tax or investment advice, and you are solely responsible for your investment decisions. For more information, please see the BTCY Terms, Terms of Use and Risk Warning.

NEOS, BlackRock, iShares, and Goldman Sachs are referenced for market context only and are not affiliated with, nor have they endorsed, Binance or BTC Yield.

About Binance

Binance is a leading global blockchain ecosystem behind the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and registered users. Binance is trusted by more than 320 million people in 100+ countries for its industry-leading security, transparency, trading engine speed, protections for investors, and unmatched portfolio of digital asset products and offerings from trading and finance to education, research, social good, payments, institutional services, and Web3 features. Binance is devoted to building an inclusive crypto ecosystem to increase the freedom of money and financial access for people around the world with crypto as the fundamental means. For more information, visit: https://www.binance.com.

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UAE-based dairy manufacturer Hadaf Foods to adopt cloud-based smart manufacturing platform with Precast FZCO supporting implementation to enable continuous improvement and scalable growth

DUBAI, UAE, July 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, today announced that Hadaf Foods Industries LLC (“Hadaf Foods”), supported by Precast FZCO, is adopting the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform® to modernize its manufacturing operations and establish a connected operating model for long-term growth.

Hadaf Foods operates a manufacturing facility in Khalifa Economic Zones Abu Dhabi (KEZAD), focused on the production of a range of cheese products. The company serves regional and international markets through its product portfolio and is focused on strengthening operational visibility, consistency and performance across its production environment as it continues to scale.

As part of its digital transformation journey, Hadaf Foods selected Plex to support real-time production monitoring, enable data-driven decision-making and create a unified view of manufacturing performance across people, processes and equipment. The implementation will initially focus on Plex Production Monitoring, establishing a digital backbone that can expand over time to support broader smart manufacturing initiatives.

“The Plex platform is designed to connect machines, people and processes in a way that turns manufacturing data into real business value,” said Tom Forster, Regional Vice President, Enterprise Software Sales, EMEA, Rockwell Automation. “Hadaf Foods selected Plex because it delivers rapid visibility and measurable impact while providing a clear path for future expansion. With outstanding support from our partner Precast, Hadaf Foods can move beyond isolated data points to a connected manufacturing environment that supports performance, agility and growth.”

Hadaf Foods prioritized several key requirements when selecting Plex, including rapid deployment, scalability and the ability to capture and connect production data more efficiently. With Plex Production Monitoring, the company will gain real-time insight into machine performance, production output, scrap, downtime and overall equipment effectiveness (“OEE”). Automated data capture from machines, combined with contextual operator inputs, will help remove data silos and replace fragmented reporting with consistent, actionable insights.

The collaboration between Hadaf Foods, Rockwell Automation and Precast, an authorized distributor for Rockwell Automation and Plex solution provider, supports broader regional industrialization objectives aligned with the “We the UAE 2031” vision, including the expansion of localized food manufacturing, improved supply chain resilience and the adoption of advanced digital technologies. By enabling data‑driven, scalable manufacturing operations through Plex, the project helps strengthen local production capabilities, support food security and build a more competitive, diversified industrial base across the region.

“At Hadaf Foods, we see digital manufacturing as a key enabler of operational excellence,” said Mustafa Gul, General Manager, Hadaf Foods. “By adopting the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform, we are creating a more connected operating model that will give our teams real-time visibility across the factory floor, improve data accuracy, and support faster, better-informed decisions. This is not only a technology implementation for us; it is a step toward stronger operational discipline, greater efficiency and more scalable growth.”

Precast is supporting the deployment using an accelerated, structured approach designed to deliver value quickly while enabling knowledge transfer to Hadaf Foods’ internal teams. This collaborative model helps ensure operational readiness and supports long-term self-sufficiency as Hadaf Foods continues its smart manufacturing journey.

“With Plex, Hadaf Foods is taking a meaningful step toward a more connected and transparent production environment,” said Lingath Bava Shiva N., Global Team Lead, Digital Industries, Precast. “The platform helps them align their teams around shared data, improve operational discipline, and build the capabilities they need to grow with confidence.”

About Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), is a global leader in industrial automation and digital transformation. We connect the imaginations of people with the potential of technology to expand what is humanly possible, making the world more productive and more sustainable. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rockwell Automation employs approximately 26,000 problem solvers dedicated to our customers in more than 100 countries as of fiscal year end 2025. To learn more about how we are bringing the Connected Enterprise® to life across industrial enterprises, visit www.rockwellautomation.com.

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