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This Week

 

iCIMS Acquires Jibe, Salesforce.com’s Tableau Acquisition, and BetterUp Raises $103 Million to Humanize Work.

 

• iCIMS Acquires Jibe Link »


• Salesforce.com’s Tableau Acquisition: Admitting Organic Innovation Failure? Link »


• BetterUp Raises $103 Million to Humanize Work Link »



 



Other News this Week



• AllyO Raises $45M Series B Funding in Largest AI Recruiting Round Ever Link »


• Pryon raises $20 million to automate enterprise workloads with AI Link »


• Enboarder Raises $8 Million Series A to Fuel The Shift to Experience-Driven Employee Onboarding Link »


• PredictiveHR Raises $1 Million to Provide Workforce Analytics to Human Resource C-Suite Link »

Transcript

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SPEAKERS

John Sumser

Stacey Harris

FULL TRANSCRIPT

00:00:14 :07 – 00:00:22 :14

Good morning and welcome to HR Tech Weekly One Step Closer with Stacy Harris and John Sumser, Stacey! Welcome back to the continental United States.

00:00:25 :06 – 00:01:03 :01

Thank you John I appreciate it. I am. I’d like to say I was home in North Carolina but I’m not. I’m actually still traveling a little bit, I’m in Ohio. I’m actually to my hometown of Ohio looking out at the swollen banks of Lake Erie right now. I came up came to visit my son who’s traveling in from Hawaii this week and so we wanted to catch up with him before he went back to Hawaii. And the rain. If you’ve been listening to the news and people talking about the rain and how it’s impacting the North East Ohio area they are not kidding it is everywhere you go flooded out roads the banks of Lake Erie are up and above where they have been at in years.

00:01:03 :02 – 00:01:20 :19

And if you are anyone who depends on the price of corn my recommendation right now is to put some money in the bank because the corn is nowhere near where it needs to be from someone who grew up around it so yeah. But I am but I am back and I’d say it’s nice to be at least on a home soil

00:01:22 :09 – 00:01:22 :14

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00:01:22 :18 – 00:01:25 :06

Wow, well sure so welcome back. Where did you learn in Europe.

00:01:25 :19 – 00:02:06 :22

Well Europe was fine I took a national week vacation which was really nice so the one thing that I learned every time I go there when you to the Europeans is that we in America do not take our vacations correctly and we definitely don’t take them long enough because everyone’s like oh you’re on vacation you’ll be here the whole month. I was like this really for two weeks. We can work in a week of vacation and they were all flabbergasted because their opinion of the vacation is a full four week if you can get a vacation. So that definitely reminds me that when you’re dealing with European employees you have to have built in the idea that August July there is vacations and it is a big part of the expectations of every worker even at the service level.

00:02:06 :22 – 00:02:13 :27

But yeah. No I mean Europe was great there. One of the things I was over I last time of course I was just finishing up the talent

00:02:15 :12 – 00:02:51 :05

conference and I had up to just speak to a couple of the companies who were out there and that Ariel really saw that there was a lot of focus on European base smaller businesses as a as a big part of the buying cycle right now. So I know there’s a lot of competition coming from the states as well but it seems like there’s there’s an expectation that organizations are going to maybe find one or two really big European based talent management payrolls or for a trauma environments that will will start growing pretty rapidly here in the next several years.

00:02:51 :05 – 00:03:01 :02

A couple that we could talk about on the news today. Yeah. So it was a good event and a good a couple weeks in Europe. And