Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday or catch up on full episodes with transcriptions here.

This Week

 

Amazon Launches Personalize, A Fully Managed AI-Powered Recommendation Service, Pryon Raises $20M To Automate Enterprise Workloads With AI, New Funding announced for WorkForce Software, Degreed, and MentorcliQ. Plus, Global Payroll Complexity Index Reveals Compliance Threats And Ranks 40 Countries In Order Of Payroll Risk. Topics: AI, MI, Gaming Systems, and Payroll.

 

• Amazon Launches Personalize, A Fully Managed AI-Powered Recommendation Service Link »


• Pryon Raises $20M To Automate Enterprise Workloads With AI Link »


• WorkForce Software Announces Strategic Growth Investment Link »


• Degreed Raises $75M Link »


• MentorcliQ Adds $6.3 Million in Growth Capital Link »


• Global Payroll Complexity Index Reveals Compliance Threats And Ranks 40 Countries In Order Of Payroll Risk Link »


• Topics: AI, MI, Gaming Systems, and Payroll



 



Other News this Week



• 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 :08 – 00:00:19 :28

Good morning and welcome to HR Tech Weekly One Step Closer with Stacey Harris and John Sumser.

00:00:20 :18 – 00:00:33 :02

Stacey. You know if this was the 1940s you’d have that hard luggage and there’d be big stamps from all of the countries you visited in the last two months, you are an intrepid world traveler.

00:00:34 :10 – 00:00:37 :25

I am, but I want to say you know compared to many of our colleagues, this is the first time I’ve been back to back to back. And it has definitely been a lot of traveling for me personally. We know a lot of our friends travel that much on a regular basis so my thoughts go out to them because this is a hard month. I love seeing. I mean as an Asia Singapore. All through Europe and multiple ends of the United States in the last two months. I love seeing everything but I am really really glad to be home right now. To say my backyard looks like the best thing in the world to me. At this point so I will I will take a sunshine and ninety four degree weather in North Carolina is not bad at all today.

00:01:10 :12 – 00:01:12 :18

And so and how about you. Are you home?

00:01:12 :18 – 00:01:30 :24

I am home. I am doing the research for this year’s report and it means I think I’ve been complaining about this for a while. I am I am in demo land, I have done a hundred and four demos and I have 20 more before I’m done.

00:01:31 :24 – 00:01:33 :15

When’s the deadline. Is it next week.

00:01:33 :15 – 00:01:34 :23

Are you happy that?

00:01:35 :06 – 00:01:46 :06

The deadline was tomorrow. So that means there would be hard, I’m not going to do anything more, Deadline was tomorrow, so that means Monday Tuesday filled right up.

00:01:46 :08 – 00:01:51 :02

Right. Exactly yes.

00:01:51 :06 – 00:02:23 :10

We have the same issue with the survey. I mean shifting over done it. And I would get like five more people think could we just get in left and then we wait for a couple more days then we get to five or there’s always someone who wants to just get it under the wire and you try as much to accommodate we we end up this year with as many as we had last year a little less head and then click but just as many overall responses to the survey so yeah it’s been a good. Everybody wants to get into into the research that’s here for both what you’re doing what we’re doing. Everyone else it seems to be a good year for research. I think people are excited about the topic.

00:02:23 :21 – 00:02:50 :09

Yeah. Well it’s evolving fairly quickly. I think you’ve you imagined that there’s sort of two bookends to the overall set of research projects. You have one of them. I have the other you have the what’s really happening in big tech across the board in exquisite detail. And I’ve got the what’s happening at the very front end of things and frontier where the marketing know.

00:02:50 :22 – 00:03:03 :04

And so. So b