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Companies Have Augmented the Annual Review With a Steady Stream of Performance Data – PerformYard’s 2027 State of HR Report

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Analysis of 300,000+ employees finds review forms shrinking, check-ins multiplying, and AI adoption quadrupling in the last 12 months.

ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — PerformYard, the AI-powered performance management and talent development platform, today released its 2027 State of HR Report.

“Over the last few years we’ve observed a shift toward ongoing performance conversations throughout the year. More touchpoints means more opportunities to coach employees, which leads to quicker career development and tangible organizational output.”

Drawing on anonymized data from 300,000+ employees, the report documents a change: performance management is shifting from a once-a-year exercise to a steady flow of interactions. Organizations gathering the most information, most frequently, have higher review completion rates, better goal performance, and have been the first to put AI to work.

“We are seeing a really exciting change in how employee performance is managed,” said Sean Dunn, CEO of PerformYard. “Over the last few years we’ve observed a shift toward ongoing performance conversations throughout the year. More touchpoints means more opportunities to coach employees, which leads to quicker career development and tangible organizational output.”

The review is getting smaller. Performance management is getting bigger.

Analyzing data from 2022-2026 shows that the typical performance review now has fewer questions, from 17 to 14. Rather than producing less information, the shorter review produced more: the typical written answer from an employee grew 25% longer over the period.

How often you check in matters more than how much you ask.

The report introduces a simple metric: performance touchpoints per employee, counting every review, goal, piece of feedback, and 1:1 meeting recorded for a person in a year. Organizations recording eight or more touchpoints per employee complete 94% of their reviews; those recording one touchpoint complete just 76%.

The largest single step is the second review cycle. Moving from one cycle a year to two raises the review completion rate from 84% to 90%, and organizations running three or more cycles finish each review 28% faster than those running one review.

The best programs do more reviews, more often.

The quartile of organizations with the highest goal completion rates run four review cycles a year and set 5x as many goals as the quartile with the lowest completion goal rates.

Managers are the biggest bottleneck.

In organizations where managers average 12 or more direct reports, goal completion rates are 54% lower than in organizations where they have 3-5 direct reports per manager. When asked why reviews don’t get finished, 45% of surveyed organizations said managers forget or deprioritize them, a far more common response than other issues like manual work (14%) or employee resistance (13%).

“Managers don’t slow down performance reviews on purpose. That said, managers are the natural bottleneck. They hold the pen for every direct report,” said Jesse Nichols, VP of People Operations at PerformYard. “Every leader I talk to wants to develop their teams faster, but the best organizations are doing it by making life easy for managers. They’re running frequent, small check-ins instead of solely relying on a big annual review.”

AI went from experiment to default in 12 months.

In 2025, 14.5% of organizations regularly used PerformYard AI. By September 2026, 56% were using PerformYard AI to analyze performance, including 91% of organizations with 750+ employees. The organizations that use AI tend to write longer review answers, signaling that AI is enhancing manager feedback as opposed to replacing it.

Outside the platform, the annual review is alive and well

Among 300+ surveyed organizations that do not use PerformYard, 51% run reviews on spreadsheets, PDFs, or paper; 52% give formal feedback once a year; and 87% grade their own process a C or D.

What the report recommends for 2027

Keep reviews around 10 to 15 questions, with some open-ended questions included.Add a mid-year review cycle. It’s the most impactful addition you can make as an HR leader.Decide where AI fits. Making AI a part of the review cycle enhances managers’ output and coaching ability.

The full report is available at www.performyard.com/state-of-hr-report

Methodology

Customer findings are based on anonymized, aggregated PerformYard product data from 2014 to 2026. Survey findings come from 300+ organizations that completed PerformYard’s online Performance Management Grader, answering questions about how they run reviews, goals, and feedback; answers are self-reported.

About PerformYard

PerformYard is an AI-powered performance management and talent development platform built for HR teams that want flexibility without complexity. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, PerformYard brings performance management and talent development into one AI-first system, backed by a dedicated customer success manager for every account.

Learn more at www.performyard.com

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Drew Detzler, PerformYard, 1 (888) 745-0761, ddetzler@performyard.com, performyard.com

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Dozuki Launches Forge AI to Power the Future of the Industrial Workforce

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Embedded experiences bring AI into everyday workflows, while a dynamic AI Assistant helps people explore deeper questions and improvement opportunities.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Dozuki, a leading Connected Worker Platform for industrial operations, today announced Forge AI, an industrial AI layer that brings intelligence into the flow of work through two complementary experiences: embedded AI for defined tasks and a dynamic AI Assistant for deeper questions and investigation. Together, they help manufacturers capture expertise, build workforce capability, and identify opportunities to improve operations.

Dozuki Forge AI arrives as industrial organizations face critical workforce challenges: experienced employees are leaving, manufacturing work is becoming more complex, and operations are being asked to accomplish more with leaner teams. At the same time, manufacturers are evaluating how artificial intelligence can improve productivity without sacrificing the quality and operational context required in operations.

Dozuki Forge AI addresses that challenge by applying AI to the operational knowledge, workforce skills, and frontline activity already connected through Dozuki.

“Manufacturing doesn’t have a shortage of intelligence. The challenge is capturing it, scaling it, and putting it in the hands of the people who need it,” said Jerry Dolinsky, CEO of Dozuki. “Forge AI helps companies turn the expertise of their best people into institutional intelligence that can strengthen the entire workforce, even as experienced workers retire and operations become more complex.”

Forge AI supports both consistent execution and the investigation needed to improve it. Embedded experiences bring AI into defined workflows, helping teams create guidance, understand procedure changes, and review visible deviations from a standard. The dynamic AI Assistant lets people explore an operational issue through follow-up questions, troubleshooting, and analysis. Both draw on the knowledge and context connected through Dozuki, helping organizations:

Preserve critical knowledge by transforming documents, video, and frontline expertise into standardized operational content.Develop workforce capabilities by creating training, assessments, and insights into workforce readiness and skill gaps.Support frontline execution with contextual answers and troubleshooting guidance grounded in approved operational knowledge.Accelerate continuous improvement by analyzing frontline activity and operational signals to identify patterns and opportunities.

The launch builds on the Dozuki work of helping manufacturers digitize and operationalize frontline knowledge. Its CreatorPro AI technology, for example, can transform frontline video into structured digital work instructions. The technology has already reduced customer SOP creation time from four hours to less than 10 minutes.

“Generic AI is only as valuable as the knowledge and context behind it,” Dolinsky said. “Industrial companies already possess an extraordinary amount of intelligence in their people and operations. Forge AI is designed to make that intelligence accessible, actionable, and scalable.”

Forge AI maintains the governance required for industrial environments. Customer information remains isolated within each organization’s Dozuki account, existing permissions govern access, and customer data is not used to train shared AI models.

Forge AI is available through Dozuki, learn more at www.dozuki.com/ai.

About Dozuki
Dozuki is a leading Connected Worker Platform for industrial operations, helping manufacturers capture operational knowledge, develop workforce skills, standardize frontline execution and continuously improve. More than 500 companies across over 50 countries use Dozuki to build more capable workforces and more resilient operations. Learn more at www.dozuki.com

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Amber International Holding Limited Schedules 2026 Annual General Meeting for October 23, 2026

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SINGAPORE, Sept. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Amber International Holding Limited (“Amber International” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: AMBR), today announced that it will hold its 2026 annual general meeting on October 23, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. (Singapore time) or on October 22, 2026 at 9:00 p.m. (New York time) in Singapore.

Date:          October 23, 2026 (Singapore Time) or October 22, 2026 (New York Time)

Time:          09:00 a.m. (Singapore time) or 09:00 p.m. (New York Time)

Location:     1 Wallich Street, #30-02 Guoco Tower, Singapore                     

The annual general meeting will be devoted to the following proposals:

As a special resolution, to approve the grant of a one-off incentive share award to Mr. Michael Wu, consisting of an aggregate of 23,469,189 Class B ordinary shares, which shall be fully vested and issued on October 23, 2026, and all transactions contemplated thereby, including the issuance of such Class B ordinary shares pursuant thereto;As an ordinary resolution, to approve and ratify the appointment of Mr. Michael Wu as a director and chairman of the board of directors of the Company;As an ordinary resolution, to approve and ratify the appointment of Ms. Jie Jiao as an independent director of the Company;As an ordinary resolution, to approve and ratify the appointment of Ms. Vicky Wang as a director of the Company;As an ordinary resolution, to approve and ratify the appointment of Mr. Yi Bao as a director of the Company;As an ordinary resolution, to approve and ratify the appointment of Ms. Noorsurainah Tengah as an independent director of the Company;As an ordinary resolution, to approve and ratify the appointment of Mr. Daniel-Philippe Mamadou-Blanco as an independent director of the Company;As an ordinary resolution, to confirm, approve and ratify the Company’s Post-IPO Share Incentive Plan, as amended and restated by the board of directors of the Company on May 16, 2025, including the increase of the share reserve to 11,000,000 Class A ordinary shares and the annual increase under Section 3.1 thereof; andAs an ordinary resolution, to act upon such other matters as may properly come before the Company’s annual general meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

Only shareholders of record at the close of business on September 28, 2026 (New York Time) are entitled to receive notice of and to vote at the Company’s annual general meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

The notice of the Company’s annual general meeting and the Company’s 2025 Annual Report containing the complete audited financial statements and the report of auditors for the year ended December 31, 2025 are available on the Investor Relations Section of the Company’s website at https://ir.ambr.io.

About Amber International Holding Limited

Amber International Holding Limited (Nasdaq: AMBR), is a technology company that builds specialized AI agents for high-value, high-stakes use cases. Drawing on deep domain expertise, trusted financial infrastructure, and experience serving sophisticated users, the Company develops agents that move beyond answering questions to understanding intent, maintaining context, and executing complex workflows on behalf of users. Its first two agents are in the market: Ambre, a consumer agent for personal finance, and MIA, an agent for growth and marketing workflows. Headquartered in Singapore, Amber International is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market. For more information, visit https://ir.ambr.io.

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Finalsite Expands K-12 Payments Capabilities with RevTrak Acquisition

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Strategic expansion strengthens Finalsite’s mission to help schools deliver meaningful, connected experiences for families across every interaction.

GLASTONBURY, Conn., Sept. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Finalsite, a leading K–12 platform for school engagement, enrollment and communications, has expanded its payments capabilities through its recent acquisition of RevTrak, a leading digital payments provider serving more than 13,000 schools nationwide.

RevTrak builds on Finalsite’s existing tuition and billing solutions by extending its reach across everyday school payments—from meals and athletics to activities, events and fees. For more than 30 years, RevTrak has helped schools simplify how they collect, manage and track money, supporting the shift from cash, checks and manual processes to digital payments. Its technology combines the convenience families expect with the reporting, reconciliation tools and integrations schools need.

This complementary acquisition strategically expands Finalsite’s K–12 platform. By pairing RevTrak’s trusted payments technology with Finalsite’s school experience solutions, Finalsite offers an integrated, modern solution across the full family journey—enhancing convenience for families and operational efficiencies for schools.

“Families experience their school through every interaction—from their first website visit to enrolling a child, receiving an update or paying for a field trip,” said Jim Calabrese, Finalsite CEO. “Making those moments easier for families must also mean making them easier for school teams to deliver. RevTrak brings proven payments expertise to our broader strategy: a more connected school experience with less administrative complexity behind it.”

Together, Finalsite and RevTrak serve more than 50,000 schools worldwide. Finalsite’s scale and commitment to investment in product innovation, enterprise-grade security, and customer success will accelerate delivery of new payments capabilities to schools while unlocking an easier payment experience for parents.

Finalsite is a portfolio company of Veritas Capital (“Veritas”), a leading investor operating at the intersection of technology and government.

About Finalsite
Finalsite is a K–12 Family Experience Platform serving more than 40,000 schools worldwide, making school easier for families and simpler for school teams to manage.

From the first website visit to enrollment, communications and payments, Finalsite connects the interactions that shape a family’s relationship with their school. By bringing together essential tools, data and workflows, Finalsite helps schools and districts reduce administrative complexity, personalize communications and strengthen enrollment and retention—giving staff more time to serve students and families.

Finalsite is headquartered in Glastonbury, Connecticut with employees across the U.S. and internationally in Canada, Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit www.finalsite.com.

About RevTrak
RevTrak is the complete school payment platform purpose-built for K–12 districts. For more than 30 years, RevTrak has helped district finance teams simplify how schools collect, manage, and track money — across fees, meals, athletics, events, fundraising, registrations and more. Trusted by more than 13,000 schools nationwide, RevTrak integrates with the tools districts already use to give families a modern payment experience and give staff the reporting and reconciliation tools they need.

About Veritas Capital
Veritas is a longstanding technology investor with $54 billion of assets under management and a focus on companies operating at the intersection of technology and government. The Firm invests in companies that provide mission-critical products, services, and software, primarily technology and technology-enabled solutions, to government and commercial customers worldwide. Veritas seeks to create value by strategically transforming the companies in which it invests through organic and inorganic means. Leveraging technology to make a positive impact across vitally important areas, such as healthcare, education, energy, and national security, is core to the Firm. Veritas is a proud steward of national and global assets, focused on improving the quality of healthcare while reducing cost, advancing educational systems, accelerating energy transition, and protecting our nation and allies. For more information, visit www.veritascapital.com.

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