HR Snacks

My guest on this episode, Reid Walsh (CHRO at NEOGOV), talks about the bespoke nature of HR creating business impact and shares a compelling perspective: HR can play a huge role in shaping organizations that embrace and celebrate AI adoption. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you haven't noticed, there's been quite an uptick in M&A activity across the HR tech space over the past 12+ months. And it's not just flashy AI startups; HR service firms, payroll bureaus, and mid-sized legacy players are getting scooped up in the market. My guest, Steve Malley, discusses this growing trend and how it's impacting buyers and the larger platform vendors in the industry. Learn mo...

Abhinav Agrawal, who's the CEO at Netchex with a strong background in product development, joins me to discuss the new trends in payroll and HCM and what buyers should be looking for when choosing their next provider. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Intuitively most of us would agree that organizational trust is important to build and maintain, especially in the current work environment fraught with turbulence. But, it's a bit of a squishy concept without any correlative ties to business impact. My guest on this episode, Kim Bohr, President-COO, Speaker, Author , touches on this very topic and dives into fresh market research conducted by Spa...

Kyle Lagunas spills some tea on the not-so-flashy secret of AI adoption and advancement based on the research his new gen analyst and research firm, Kyle & Co, conducted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a tough job trying to build and maintain a positive culture across a dispersed workforce that expands internationally. Now try layering in whole new companies that get introduced through acquisitions & mergers and you have a challenge that requires talent professionals like Lauren D. Williams, SVP of Culture and Change Management at SiriusXM, to step up and lead with intentional efforts. In t...

There are a lot of "thought leaders" across the HR industry. I've met a lot of these folks over the years and count a good many as friends. Heck, you've probably seen a few dozen featured in hashtag#HRSnacks episodes. It's valuable getting perspectives and guidance from this group, but I think there's a deficit in this industry hearing from HR professionals that are in the trenches working within...

The HR Tech conference is this week and my guest, Ransom Wydner who's the VP of Partnerships at SixFifty, joins me to discuss the unique skillsets needed for partnership roles and why HR tech is one of the most exciting and active industries for partnerships at the moment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My guest, Matt Harvey, discusses how leading universities like Stanford are preparing students to work with AI in a rapidly changing workforce and how they're enabling business leaders to navigate AI implementation and adoption. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Aaron Delgaty dives into the ethical implications of outsourcing and automating primary qualitative research with AI tools and agents. Come for the philosophical AI debate and stay for the Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park references. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you've seen the job market numbers for July and the dramatic downward revisions made for May and June, then you know the data's finally matching up to what many are sharing and experiencing right now in the job market. It's not easy for folks navigating restructures and layoffs and many are having to dip into retirement savings to stay afloat between jobs. But adjacent to longer-term income sho...

I still clearly remember getting my first paycheck as a high schooler working over the summer at the local movie theater. The amount was shockingly low, there was some sort of loop hole where we were getting paid below minimum wage, but getting that handwritten check from the manager was exciting and a milestone moment for me nonetheless. Flash forward 5 years and I'm actually running payroll for...

I feel for anyone involved in sourcing and making new tech buying decisions these days. There's a lot to consider and there's much more that needs to be taken into account with bringing in new AI tools that doesn't line up cleanly with how businesses compute ROI. That's why it's great to have smart folks like Kyle Forrest and the team at Deloitte to conduct ongoing research and surface insights on...

Most prognosticators waxing about the future of work have been humbled since the start of the pandemic in 2020. Remote work environments were going to be the universal norm for office workers. Hiring and retaining talent were the top priorities for the foreseeable future with a historically tight labor market and baby boomers leaving the workforce. Now many are speculating what the role will be fo...

In the hospitality, restaurant, and retail world, employees power the guest experience. You don't have to look hard to find a trove of case studies and examples of great companies, like Costco or Hilton, that have a dedicated focus on providing a positive employee experience and high customer satisfaction and engagement. When we think of employee experience and factors that impact employee engagem...

To say things haven't been easy for HR professionals over the past 5 years is a colossal understatement. The pandemic, the rapid adjustment to WFH, the Great Resignation, all of the "Quiet" iterations (that I'm glad have gone away), RTO pushes, AI-fueled workforce realignments, and a broadening skills gap have led to widespread burnout and many HR pros making the move from full-time roles to fract...

The more things change, the more they remain the same. Perhaps not universally true, but this idiom certainly applies to the HR tech industry and the buyers in the market. There are some key principles and considerations that are just as relevant today in the AI era as they were when on-premise HRMS dominated the market. My guest on this episode, Steve Goldberg, has seen it all over the decades an...

Right now AI tools and agents are being developed that will take a significant amount of work off the plates of HR and TA departments. As more HR-related tasks, analysis, and decisions are parsed to AI, it's critical that examine and question the potential biases that exist in these systems. My guest, Torin Ellis, has been a prominent thought leader, consultant, and practitioner in the HR space si...

We're in the midst of the AI gold rush. New AI startups are coming to market at a breakneck pace and legacy SaaS platforms are making strategic acquisitions and tasking product teams with embedding AI in their products. But as we're chasing this shiny new object of AI, are companies losing sight of a critical element of product development—creating solutions that solve customers' problems, pain po...

Well, we've experienced week 1 of this new administration and have already seen a flood of executive orders that'll reshape corporate labor laws and regulations. Though it's directionally clear where the Trump administration is focusing reform efforts, the downstream impacts to HR compliance are still TBD. That's why I was excited to have Ryan Parker join me to discuss what shifts employers and HR...

The onboarding experience is a defining moment for new hires. Excitement and enthusiasm to begin a new job can be dampened by tedious and scattered onboarding processes. Making sure onboarding is done compliantly is also critical for employers, especially as the new administration looks to tighten up employee verification standards. Join me and my guest, a self-proclaimed I-9 nerd, Chapelle Ryon,...

The Employer of Record (EOR) category is one of the fastest growing segments in HR tech over the past few years. There's been a mountain of investment $$ poured into the space and a handful of hyper-growth unicorns emerge with massive potential exits on the horizon. So why have EOR providers picked up so much steam lately? Well there's no better person to ask that than Nicole Sahin , the founder o...

If you've been to an HR conference this year, there's a good chance you heard speakers and exhibitors talking about agentic AI. It's the next buzzword du jour for an industry that seems to be cycling through these at an increasing rate. But behind the buzz and hype are really practical and exciting applications for AI in the workplace that'll continue to shape the division of labor/tasks between p...

Early in my career I was required to read Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People". I didn't discover any shocking revelations—most of the concepts in the book are pretty straightforward, albeit dated. But it did help me realize the importance of building solid relationships in the workplace and how that relational equity can impact my career and accomplishments. The role of HR is...

When looking at the success or failure of product adoption and utilization across the HR tech and Work tech space, it's easy to point to the software and technology as the root cause. Organizations often times purchase expansive HCM systems (sold to them with the promise of all-in-one functionality) and delay the activation of certain modules because it's "too much to take on at once". Narrator: T...