IEC Rebel’s Digest

The EOR Study 2026 Has Officially Launched! Global employment is evolving—make sure you’re part of the narrative.   The EOR Reckoning: What to Expect from the 2026 Global Employer of Record Study IEC Rebels Digest Special Report The Employer of Record (EOR) model has traveled a long road from “niche compliance workaround” to mission-critical global […]

IEC Rebel’s Digest Xmas Special — 2025 Wrap + 2026 Preview (with a geopolitics reality check) Executive Summary: 2025 Wrap + 2026 Preview 2025 was the year the market stopped applauding AI demos—and started demanding receipts. In HR, WFM, payroll, and global employment, “AI-powered” became a baseline claim, while trust infrastructure (governance, explainability, audit trails,

AI in Workforce Analytics & Planning Intro: AI in Workforce Analytics & Planning:   If Payroll is where AI proves it can count, Workforce Analytics & Planning is where it proves it can think.  This category sits at the core of Study #3: AI in Employee Experience & People Insights. It’s where headcount, skills, productivity,

Employee Experience & Virtual Assistants   Study #3: AI in Employee Experience & People Insights, Category Focus: Employee Experience & Virtual Assistants Intro: From Portal Graveyards to Practical Copilots Every HR strategy deck now has the same slide: “One intelligent assistant as the single front door to the employee experience.” Reality: people still hop between

You can’t “AI” your way out of a broken workforce stack. Executive Summary AI in HR is no longer just about pretty chatbots on your career site. In Study #2: AI in Workforce Operations & Pay, we look at the hard stuff: how AI actually runs work, workers, and money across VMS, FMS, contractors, EOR,

Payroll is where AI either delivers—or breaks trust. Executive Summary   This article dives into as the most unforgiving corner of AI in Workforce Operations & Pay. We explore how AI is already transforming the full chain: scanning regulatory changes across countries, translating them into actionable rules, catching anomalies before payroll closes, reconciling messy data

When Scheduling Stops Being Spreadsheet Tetris Executive Summary AI is already writing job ads and summarizing performance reviews, but the real battleground is much less glamorous: who works when, where, and for how much. In most organizations, scheduling and time management are still a painful mix of Excel, gut feeling, and last-minute firefighting. That’s exactly

On the Skills & Growth Wave with AI   Executive Summary L&D is shifting from “courses consumed” to capabilities deployed. AI now stitches together skills data, work history, performance, and business priorities to recommend the next best learning, the next best project, or the next best role. The result: internal marketplaces that surface gigs, rotations,

AI in Performance & Talent Intelligence Executive Summary AI is rapidly transforming talent acquisition—from how we source candidates to how we screen, engage, and measure quality of hire. But let’s be clear: this is not about machines taking over recruiting. It’s about amplifying human intelligence. The future of hiring belongs to organizations that combine AI

AI-Driven Talent Acquisition Executive Summary AI is rapidly transforming talent acquisition—from how we source candidates to how we screen, engage, and measure quality of hire. But let’s be clear: this is not about machines taking over recruiting. It’s about amplifying human intelligence. The future of hiring belongs to organizations that combine AI precision with human