HiBob is a cloud-based HRIS platform that offers Bob, a suite of HR tools for fast-growing, globally distributed companies. Bob includes time and attendance, onboarding, compensation, payroll, performance tracking, and people analytics to automate HR tasks and improve the employee experience. It works as a subscription SaaS accessed by web or mobile, and it integrates with Slack and Microsoft Teams to streamline workflows for remote teams. HiBob differentiates itself by focusing on a user-friendly, end-to-end HR experience in one platform with emphasis on employee engagement and global payroll/HR needs for distributed workforces, aiming to help organizations optimize HR operations and retention at scale.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Late Stage VC
Total Funding
$881M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2015
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HiBob named Core Leader in 2026 Fosway 9-Grid(TM) for Cloud HR as European HCM market raises the bar. Excelling trajectory reflects growing suite depth, customer advocacy and practical AI innovation as businesses seek connected HR and payroll operations. October 21, 2026 08:00 ET | Source: HiBob LONDON UK & PARIS, France, Oct. 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - HiBob today announced that it has been named a Core Leader with an Excelling Trajectory in the 2026 Fosway 9-Grid(TM) for Cloud HR. The independent assessment reflects HiBob's progress in delivering Organizational Intelligence across the European HCM market as organizations seek technology that turns trusted people context into operational clarity. Fosway describes Core Leaders as higher-performing solutions with strong suite capability and a very good track record of enterprise wins, customer delivery and advocacy. Its assessment highlights positive customer feedback on Bob's modern user experience, speed to value, product innovation and customer success. Fosway also notes that HiBob has won larger customers in recent years while continuing to expand the sophistication of its suite. "European enterprises are asking more of HCM. They need solutions that can help leaders understand how work is changing," said Ronni Zehavi, CEO and co-founder of HiBob. "They need reliable HR and payroll operations across complex organisations, but they also need to understand how their people, skills, and teams must evolve. AI will only add value when it is grounded in that reality. The future of HCM belongs to platforms that connect operational trust with the context leaders need to make better decisions. That is where a modern HCM platform can create lasting value." Bob unifies workforce data and business insights to give leaders an authoritative view of organizational capability. For organizations navigating complex global compliance and operations, HiBob offers native UK payroll and Payroll Hub to connect external payroll providers, keeping vital workforce data connected to the core platform. Fosway also highlights HiBob's growing marketplace and AI capabilities, including integrations that bring HR insight into Slack. According to Fosway's 2026 analysis, HiBob has the most live AI features among the Core Leaders assessed. "The Cloud HR market is as diverse and demanding as it's ever been," said Sven Elbert, Head of Analyst Services at Fosway Group. "HiBob's continued Core Leader position and Excelling Trajectory reflect its sustained momentum. Its positive customer feedback, expanding suite capability and progress in delivering live AI underline the importance of combining innovation with consistent customer delivery." HiBob views its positioning as strong validation of its category vision in Europe, supporting ambitious organizations that need robust HCM foundations today and connected Organizational Intelligence as people and AI work together tomorrow. About HiBob HiBob is the people platform for the modern world of work. Its award-winning solution, Bob, is the modern HR and payroll platform for mid-sized and multinational companies, bringing HR, payroll, and finance together in one intuitive platform. HiBob gives organisations an enterprise-grade foundation for managing people and operations without enterprise complexity, while delivering organisational intelligence into the systems where work happens. Engineered for the realities of modern organisations, Bob helps leaders understand their workforce, identify skill gaps, plan with greater confidence, and create clear accountability across teams. With people analytics, automation, and tools spanning onboarding, compensation, workforce planning, and more, HiBob helps organisations move faster as they grow. More than one million users at over 5,500 companies in more than 170 countries rely on HiBob to run confidently today and adapt for tomorrow About the Fosway 9-Grid(TM) Fosway Group is Europe's #1 HR industry analyst. The Fosway 9-Grid(TM) is a five-dimensional market analysis model that helps organisations compare solutions based on Performance, Potential, Market Presence, Total Cost of Ownership and Trajectory. The Fosway 9-Grid(TM) for Cloud HR provides a unique assessment of the principal Cloud HCM options available to organisations in EMEA. The analysis is based on extensive independent research and insights from Fosway's Corporate Research Network of over 250 organisations, including BP, HSBC, PwC, Sanofi, Shell, and Vodafone. Press Inquiries
HR TECHNOLOGY ADVICE announces 2026 HCM mid-market vendorfit matrix. Distributed by EIN Presswire New HCM Mid-Market VendorFit Matrix Highlights Clear Distinctions Among Vendors and Finds AI Leadership in HCM Still Evolving Our advice to HR leaders is to find the last HCM solution you will ever need to buy. This matrix analysis is designed to support that long-term approach to solution selection." - Chris Harvey, Chief Research Officer, HR Technology Advice LAS VEGAS, NV, UNITED STATES, October 20, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ - HR Technology Advice, an HR technology analyst firm, today published the 2026 HCM Mid-Market VendorFit Matrix - a comprehensive evaluation of the leading Human Capital Management solutions available to organizations with 100 to 1,000 employees. The report evaluated thirteen vendors across seven dimensions and determined that four - Workday, Dayforce, HiBob, and isolved - achieved the report's Leader designation, reflecting clear distinctions among HCM solutions. AI's impact on HCM buying decisions is still evolving: only 51% of HR teams evaluating a new HCM solution over the next 12 months identified AI functionality as a critical buying criterion - a figure HR Technology Advice expects to climb quickly as vendor capability matures and AI becomes a standard expectation rather than a differentiator. A MARKET WITH CLEAR DISTINCTIONS This year's HCM Mid-Market Matrix evaluation found that AI innovation and overall customer experience are creating clearer distinctions between solutions than many buyers may expect. The matrix evaluated each vendor on two equally decisive dimensions - the depth and breadth of its platform, and the quality of the customer experience and satisfaction it delivers - and found that excelling in both is rare. - Leaders Excel on Both Dimensions - Four of the 13 vendors evaluated - Workday, Dayforce, HiBob, and isolved - scored as exceptional on both platform depth and customer experience to earn Leader designation. - Functional Depth With Less Customer Experience Strength - Several vendors evaluated offer broad, feature-rich platforms but have not yet translated that breadth into exceptional customer satisfaction, support quality, and retention. - Customer Satisfaction With Less Functional Breadth - Other vendors have built loyal, well-supported customer bases around a narrower feature set - a strategy for buyers who prioritize service over platform depth. - AI Reality Check - HCM vendors' AI offerings are still evolving, and only three - Workday, Dayforce, and ChartHop - met HR Technology Advice's bar for demonstrated AI leadership and advanced customer utilization. AI OFFERINGS ARE WIDESPREAD. AI LEADERSHIP IS RARE. The report addresses a growing point of confusion for HR buyers: nearly every HCM vendor evaluated now claims some form of AI functionality, with those offerings changing at an accelerating pace, making vendor-to-vendor comparison increasingly difficult. HR Technology Advice's evaluation looked past disclosed capability lists to assess actual production use, breadth of confirmed functionality, and measurable customer impact - validated through a live or recorded product demonstration wherever possible. Of the thirteen vendors evaluated, three demonstrated AI capability strong enough to earn the matrix's AI Leader designation: Workday, Dayforce, and ChartHop. The 2026 HCM Mid-Market VendorFit Matrix evaluates thirteen leading HCM solutions, assessing each across core platform functionality, reporting and analytics, usability, customer experience and outcomes, AI and innovation, and pricing transparency: - Workday - Dayforce - HiBob - isolved - ChartHop - PDS Vista - UKG Ready - Rippling - Paycor - Paylocity - Paycom - ADP Workforce Now - Deel All thirteen vendors appear on the VendorFit Matrix. Detailed side-by-side comparisons and one-page vendor profiles are provided for the vendors that participated directly in the research. REPORT AVAILABILITY The report is available for download at www.hrtechnologyadvice.com/2026HCMMatrix. ABOUT HR TECHNOLOGY ADVICE HR Technology Advice is an analyst firm exclusively dedicated to HR technology. Our research is designed to help HR leaders make confident, well-informed technology decisions - grounded in independent evaluation. 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HiBob and The Josh Bersin Company have launched Galileo-powered AI agents in Bob, HiBob's people platform. The integration combines The Josh Bersin Company's HR expertise with Bob's workforce intelligence to deliver context-aware guidance for HR leaders and managers. The AI agents embed external HR expertise into Bob's understanding of organisational structures and workflows. This aims to help leaders make better workforce decisions by providing practical guidance within their daily work flow, rather than through disconnected tools. Initial agents are expected to be adopted by hundreds of customers by the end of 2026 and into the first quarter of 2027. HiBob CEO Ronni Zehavi said the integration helps organisations "build the operating system they need for the AI era" by elevating human decision-making rather than replacing it.
HiBob and The Josh Bersin Company launch Galileo powered workforce intelligence in Bob. Table of contents Galileo(R) in Bob combines 25 years of trusted HR expertise with Bob's trusted people context intelligence to bring context-aware guidance into the flow of work helping leaders make better workforce decisions with greater confidence New York, US & London, UK - 16 September, 2026 - HiBob, the people platform for the modern world of work and The Josh Bersin Company, the world's most trusted global research and advisory firm focused on human resources, corporate learning, talent management, and HR technology today announce the next step toward organizational intelligence with the launch of Galileo(R) powered AI agents in Bob. Organizations don't need another AI assistant, they need trusted expertise embedded where work happens. As AI reshapes the workplace, HR leaders, managers, and employees need practical guidance in the flow of work, not disconnected tools or generic AI responses that quickly become outdated. By embedding Galileo(R)'s external HR expertise into Bob's understanding of an organization's people, structures, workflows and priorities, the integration brings contextual intelligence into the flow of work helping make the organization smarter, not simply its HR technology. "Most organizations don't have an AI problem. They have an intelligence problem. The challenge isn't generating more information. It's helping leaders make better decisions with the information they already have. Workforce transformation requires organizations to connect people, payroll, performance, and planning in a way that turns insight into action. That's why we've embedded Galileo's expertise directly into Bob AI," said Ronni Zehavi, CEO and Co-founder of HiBob. Zehavi concludes: "By combining trusted expertise with workforce intelligence, we're helping organizations build the operating system they need for the AI era, one that elevates human decision-making rather than replacing it." From AI potential to practical impact. While AI adoption is accelerating across every industry, many organizations are struggling to convert experimentation into measurable business value. The challenge is no longer access to AI. It is access to contextual intelligence that most helps leaders understand the signals and insights provided by AI and translate them into better decision-making. This is where the market is heading. Organizations need AI embedded within the manager's daily workflow and where workforce decisions are made, not disconnected tools that sit alongside them. HiBob is building agents that incorporate Galileo(R) context into answers when relevant to a user's question. The initial agents, expected to be adopted by hundreds of customers by the end of 2026, and into the first quarter of 2027 are designed to support: * Job architecture - structuring roles and skills with industry-aligned frameworks * Compensation - guiding fair, competitive, and data-informed pay decisions * Performance management - improving evaluation quality and consistency Bob combines each organization's unique people data with HiBob's technical expertise and 25 years of research and insight from The Josh Bersin Company. By understanding roles, performance, workflows and priorities, it provides leaders and managers with reliable, evidence-based intelligence in the flow of work helping them make better decisions in the moment and respond more intelligently to change. The next frontier: organizational intelligence. For years, organizations have invested in systems of record and systems of engagement. The next generation of organizations will be built on systems of intelligence that connect people, payroll, performance, planning, and business priorities in one place. Organizational Intelligence enables leaders to move from hindsight to foresight, helping them anticipate workforce challenges, make better decisions, and act with greater confidence. Josh Bersin, global industry analyst and CEO of The Josh Bersin Company, added: "For AI to truly transform HR, it must be grounded in expertise and delivered in the flow of work. The partnership between Galileo(R) and Bob brings decades of HR knowledge directly into the hands of practitioners and managers when they need it most while empowering teams to make more human-centered decisions every day." AVAILABILITY The Galileo(R) Inside Bob agents will be available in Q3 2026; full GA 2027. NOTES TO EDITORS Use cases available on request About HiBob HiBob is the people platform for the modern world of work. Its award-winning solution, Bob, connects HR, payroll, and finance in a single solution, providing organizations with a trusted foundation for managing their people and operations. Building on this foundation of verified workforce data, HiBob delivers organizational intelligence directly into the systems where work happens, serving as critical infrastructure for the AI-powered enterprise that bridges the gap between people and agents. Engineered for modern organizational dynamics, HiBob empowers leaders to gain deep visibility into their people and capabilities, identify skill gaps, strategize workforce planning, and foster clear accountability. Today, thousands of mid-sized and enterprise organizations across more than 170 countries rely on HiBob to build more agile, high-performing cultures. About The Josh Bersin Company The Josh Bersin Company is the world's most trusted human capital advisors, providing research-based insights on talent, leadership, and organizational performance. Unlike traditional consultancies, Hibob Inc. capture its integrated models, research, and guidance in a structured, scalable knowledge base - Galileo(R)- making trusted advice and decades of expertise accessible to anyone, anywhere, in real time. With a dedicated team constantly tracking market change, testing ideas, and applying a unique business lens, Hibob Inc. help over a million HR and business leaders address their most pressing people challenges - aligning work, knowledge, and skills for maximum impact. For more information, visit joshbersin.com.
Zalaris brings compliant, local payroll to HiBob's global HR platform. New certified integration connects HiBob's HR platform with Zalaris PeopleHub, giving HiBob customers accurate, compliant payroll wherever they operate. Zalaris, a leading provider of HR and payroll managed services and solutions, today announced a new integration that brings its compliant, local payroll expertise to HiBob, the HR platform behind Bob. The certified integration connects HiBob's HR data directly to Zalaris PeopleHub, giving joint customers accurate, compliant payroll without duplicate data entry or manual processes. This reflects the platform-agnostic approach Zalaris takes to payroll integration. Zalaris PeopleHub connects with a range of HR systems, and HiBob is now the latest certified partner alongside Workday. That gives more businesses access to compliant, local payroll expertise from Zalaris, whichever HR platform they use. How the integration works Once connected, core employee data, including new starters, leavers and changes to employee details, flows automatically from HiBob into Zalaris PeopleHub. Because payroll compliance depends on country-specific data that goes beyond standard HR fields, such as statutory and bank details, this additional information is captured directly in Zalaris PeopleHub, using country-specific forms already in place across the markets where Zalaris provides payroll services. Employees continue to view their payslips and manage payroll-related self-service through Zalaris PeopleHub / MyPayslip. Why it matters for HiBob customers * Reduced manual data entry: employee data updates flow automatically from HiBob into Zalaris, removing the need to maintain the same records in two systems * Local compliance, built in: country-specific payroll rules and statutory requirements are handled by Zalaris local payroll experts in every market * One integrated experience: employees access payslips and payroll support in one place, regardless of which HR system their employer uses * Room to grow: the integration is designed to extend to further data flows over time, including a planned return of payroll data such as payslips to HiBob "By connecting Zalaris PeopleHub with HiBob, we're making it easier for growing, international businesses to access compliant, local payroll without having to change how they manage HR," said Øyvind Reiten, EVP Group Commercial and Sales, Zalaris. "It's part of our commitment to being a payroll partner that works with the systems our customers already use, wherever they operate." "Our customers need flexibility as they expand across markets. Partnering with Zalaris enables them to combine HiBob's modern HR platform with local payroll capabilities from Zalaris, supporting a simpler and more connected employee experience across their international operations." said Fabian Schmid, Director of Partnerships, HiBob. About Zalaris Zalaris is a leading provider of Global Payroll and Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, delivering services to over 2 million employees each month and generating annual revenues exceeding €130 million. With a team of more than 1,500 experienced consultants across 18 countries, Transparency International can support organisations in over 150 countries worldwide through a unified, cloud-based system. Its mission is to simplify HR and payroll operations, providing scalable solutions that streamline administration and deliver actionable insights. By empowering organisations to focus more on their people, Transparency International help drive strategic growth and long-term value. About HiBob HiBob is a global HR technology company founded in 2015. With over one million Bob users in 100+ countries, it provides innovative, people-centric solutions that help midsize and multinational businesses streamline HR operations, improve employee engagement, and drive organizational success.