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This Week

 

StepStone acquires majority of Appcast, Fellow.app, the startup building software for managers announces $6.5M in seed funding, Paris-based HR tech company CleverConnect raises €5.5M to reduce unemployment in Europe, London-based HR platform Clear Review lands €2.9M to facilitate conversations between employees and management, RealWear raises $80M for AR headset for connected workers, AI classifies people’s emotions from the way they walk, Indeed: AI job-posting rate slows and interest dips, and What everyone should know about employer background checks.

 

• StepStone acquires majority of Appcast Link »


• Fellow.app, the startup building software for managers announces $6.5M in seed funding Link »


• Paris-based HR tech company CleverConnect raises €5.5M to reduce unemployment in Europe Link »


• London-based HR platform Clear Review lands €2.9M to facilitate conversations between employees and management Link »


• RealWear raises $80M for AR headset for connected workers Link »


• AI classifies people’s emotions from the way they walk Link »


• Indeed: AI job-posting rate slows and interest dips Link »


• What everyone should know about employer background checks Link »



 

Transcript

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SPEAKERS

John Sumser

Stacey Harris

FULL TRANSCRIPT

00:00:14 :18 – 00:00:24 :14

Good morning and welcome to HR Tech Weekly, One Step Closer with Stacey Harris and John Sumser. Hi Stacey you’re back in North Carolina just in time for it to be hot and miserable.

00:00:25 :01 – 00:00:50 :15

I am I am. We are definitely hitting our hot and muggy season but that’s okay. I’ll take it. I am lucky enough to live in an area that get lots of trees and so it’s fairly well shaded. And I got air conditioning and you can’t complain. I had more than somebody will have in this area so I will take it. The sunshine is beautiful and your home. You guys are enjoying your nice wonderful calm California weather for the moment right. No not rainy season not hot days in the middle area right now.

00:00:50 :16 – 00:00:59 :23

Oh it was the hottest June on record. It’s hot. It’s not. I thought they had finally broke them but it’s hot you go.

00:00:59 :29 – 00:01:11 :12

It’s been near 90 a couple of times. And so the sweltering Puerto Rico but it’s summertime stuff. It was summertime.

00:01:11 :21 – 00:01:32 :08

I don’t know a lot of people when when you talk about that kind of weather they don’t realize that a lot of homes in California don’t have air conditioning. Just like they don’t have they have heating but the light heat. Right. So when it’s hot here we’ve put their conditioning on everybody’s got air conditioning even the smallest houses but not very many houses in California. Except for on the higher end have air conditioning correct.

00:01:32 :09 – 00:01:54 :09

Yeah. Yeah well you know before global warming you didn’t really need air conditioning. And now that the weather is consistently many degrees hotter it turns out that it’s only a little bit of difference in the heat between we a movie you know. Excellent. So the older the older homes just don’t have a.

00:01:54 :20 – 00:02:05 :08

That’s one thing that people would like well it’s not nearly as hot as the stuff I’m like yes but every house in the south has dealt with air conditioning. Yeah I have had it for many years. Yeah that’s right.

00:02:05 :17 – 00:02:09 :17

Well what do