PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 31, 2026--
Phenom, the leader in applied AI built to redesign work operations for hiring faster, developing better and retaining longer, announced it is accepting submissions for its 2027 Phenom HR Awards. Now in its sixth year, finalists and winners earn prominent recognition among leading HR and HRIT professionals, along with third-party validation that strengthens the case for future investment, staffing and strategic growth.
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The Phenom HR Awards spotlight organizations applying AI to solve critical workforce and operational challenges, improve experiences and help employees focus on high-value work. Honorees demonstrate significant, proven impact to business outcomes, including faster hiring, greater engagement, cost and time saved, and successful expansion from pilot to enterprise-wide deployment. This year’s 11 categories include:
Strategic Achievements
Team Achievements
Leadership and overall excellence
“Every organization is trying to figure out how to successfully operationalize AI,” said Christina Brown, VP & GM, Global Customer Value at Phenom. “In human resources, the companies that have answered that question did it with AI that understands their business, their roles and how work actually gets done. Six years into these awards, our customers’ insights remain one of the most valuable resources they can share with their peers and the industry as a whole.”
The submission deadline for Phenom customers worldwide is November 13, 2026. Winners will be honored at IAMPHENOM 2027, Phenom’s annual conference, April 20-22 in Philadelphia.
To learn more about the awards or submit a nomination, visit here.
View 2026 winners here.
About Phenom
Phenom is the leader in applied AI built to redesign work operations for hiring faster, developing better and retaining longer. It understands unique industry and business needs for departments, teams, employees and candidates. This is AI that knows company DNA, powered by Engines that harmonize data and facilitate orchestration, Ontologies that guide every decision, X AI that creates hyper-personalized experiences, and Agents that work alongside teams with unprecedented speed and precision. Driven by a purpose to help a billion people find the right work, this is responsible AI that is enterprise-secure, compliant, and always explainable.
Phenom has earned accolades including: Inc. 5000’s fastest-growing companies (7 consecutive years), Deloitte Technology's Fast 500 (5 years), 11 Brandon Hall ‘Excellence in Technology’ awards including Gold for ‘Best Advance in Generative AI for Business Impact,’ Business Intelligence Group’s Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards (3 consecutive years), 2026 and 2025 CODiE Awards, The Cloud Awards 2025/2024, The A.I. Awards 2024 and 2025, and a regional Timmy Award for launching and optimizing HelpOneBillion.com (2020).
Headquartered in Greater Philadelphia, Phenom also has offices in Canada, India, Israel, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom.
For more information, please visit www.phenom.com. Connect with Phenom on LinkedIn, X, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.
Phenom announced it is accepting submissions for its 2027 Phenom HR Awards. Now in its sixth year, finalists and winners earn prominent recognition among leading HR and HRIT professionals, along with third-party validation that strengthens the case for future investment, staffing and strategic growth.
NEW YORK (AP) — The price of oil is rising and U.S. stocks are falling after American forces struck Iranian rocket launchers on the Strait of Hormuz, marking the first military action in a month. Brent crude rose 2.5% Monday and is back above $90 a barrel. The S&P 500 slipped 0.3% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 282 points or 0.5%. The Nasdaq fell 0.1%. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.75%, around the level seen two weeks ago when the Trump administration took the unusual step of announcing it would intervene in the bond market. The yield on the 2-year Treasury eased slightly.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. markets are sliding after American forces struck Iranian rocket launchers in the Strait of Hormuz, the first military action in a month.
The futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average both declined 0.2% on Monday. Nasdaq futures slipped 0.1%.
Oil prices surged more than 3% after the U.S. strike on Sunday broke a lull in fighting in a war that has lasted more than six months. The Trump administration has announced new economic campaign against Iran, but there is a significant risk of escalation in fighting.
“The Middle East had finally gone quiet enough for oil traders to start sanding some of the war premium out of crude," wrote Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management. "Then Sunday arrived, with a reminder that quiet in the Strait of Hormuz is not the same as peace.”
Brent crude, the international standard, jumped 3.4% to $91.10 per barrel on Monday. U.S. benchmark crude oil was trading 3.6% higher at $86.40 per barrel.
That has created its own form of economic pressures globally, including in the U.S.
The national average for gasoline in August has been above $4 per gallon every day in August for the first time ever, according to the AAA. It has been the most expensive August at the pump on record, outpacing even the enormous supply chain crunch during the COVID-19 pandemic in August 2022.
In equities trading, GameStop surged more than 5% before the market opened after the video game retailer provided a preliminary second-quarter earnings outlook above its year-ago results. Shares of Aon fell slightly as the company announced that it was buying insurance broker USI Insurance Services from private equity firm KKR in a deal valued at $17 billion, including debt.
Later this week, the U.S. reports August jobs data. In July, the U.S. job market stalled unexpectedly as employers cut 23,000 jobs. Labor Department revisions slashed another 103,000 jobs from May and June payrolls.
Wall Street is also bracing for a potential rate hike from the U.S. Federal Reserve following a speech on Friday by Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh about lowering inflation despite possible short-term pain for the economy.
In the bond market, the yield on the two-year Treasury, which closely tracks expectations about Fed moves, jumped to 4.35% from 4.22% just before Warsh's speech at an annual economic symposium held in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
That sets up a potential clash with U.S. President Donald Trump, who appointed Warsh and has consistently lobbied for lower rates.
Warsh was adamant again on Friday that he wants to give financial markets fewer clues about what the Fed plans to do with rates for its two jobs of keeping inflation low and the job market strong. But he also said “short-term interest rates are the predominant tool” for the Fed to do its job.
In Europe, Germany’s DAX lost 0.8% to 26,364.99, while the CAC 40 in Paris edged slightly lower, to 8,399.55. Markets in Britain were closed for a bank holiday. Asian markets were mixed.
The U.S. dollar fell to 159.72 Japanese yen from 160.10 yen. It has rebounded after falling for a spell following a rare coordinated intervention by the U.S. Treasury and Japanese regulators in late July.
The euro rose to $1.1602 from $1.1580.
Bitcoin has been on a tear this month, rising about 25%, and is up about 1% Monday to $78,625
Options trader Matthew Hefter works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
Specialists Dilip Patel, right, and Trader Robert Charmak, center, work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
Specialists Dilip Patel works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
Currency traders work at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
A person walks in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei index at a securities firm Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
A person walks in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei index at a securities firm Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
A person walks in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei index at a securities firm Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
