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

 

Swooptalent and Phenom People form Strategic Partnership, Toast Acquires Stratex to Simplify HR For Restaurants, Gusto Raises $200m Series D – Plans R&D Expansion To NYC, Willis Towers Watson Introduces Skill-Based Pay Analytics Platform, and How AI Companies Can Avoid Ethics Washing. Topics: Recruiting, AI, Machine Learning, Ethics Washing, and Retail.

 

• Swooptalent and Phenom People strategic partnership Link »


• Toast Acquires StratEx to Simplify HR for Restaurants Link »


• Gusto raises $200M Series D, plans R&D expansion to NYC Link »


• Willis Towers Watson introduces skill-based pay analytics platform Link »


• How AI companies can avoid Ethics Washing Link »


• Topics: Recruiting, AI, Machine LearningL, Ethics Washing, and Retail



 



Other News this Week



• An AI governance approach to support innovation Link »


• Trust, privacy, and then what? Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella opens Build developer conference Link »


• Tech companies must anticipate the looming risks as AI gets creative Link »


• Edtech startup headversity secures $1 million in seed funding to evolve its workplace resilience training platform Link »

Transcript

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SPEAKERS

John Sumser

Stacey Harris

FULL TRANSCRIPT

00:00:14 :07 – 00:00:26 :29

Good morning and welcome to HR Tech Weekly, One Step Closer with Stacey Harris and John Sumser, and everytime I hear that opening music I think of a lime green bright shiny field of dewey shamrocks.

00:00:27 :11 – 00:00:30 :23

How about you Stacey?

00:00:30 :27 – 00:00:43 :29

I would agree it definitely makes me think fondly of my trip several years back to Ireland so, but it also puts us in a much brighter mood because a lot of stuff going on in HR technology could require a little lightness these days.

00:00:44 :14 – 00:00:44 :20

How about you John, are you doing well this week?

00:00:44 :20 – 00:00:54 :13

Yeah, I’m doing fine. I am in the throes of sorting out what I’ve learned in the research the last couple of months and I think you’re doing the same thing.

00:00:55 :13 – 00:01:31 :19

Yeah. Work data cleaning spells. We’ve got about another two weeks of data cleaning process though. It’s fascinating. You know those who don’t actually get to get their hands dirty with data cleaning and I was just complaining with to you a few months ago about the fact that I’m going spreadsheet style by style because we had a couple a little mishap. Memorization on something that wasn’t quite looked at right. And so you know Amy and I are sort of going back and doing it but I want to say it is really neat to look at the different type of companies who respond to the research. When you get anything from a small little non-profit organization that you know working on sort of creating sort of Better Homes For animal shelters to

00:01:31 :27 – 00:01:51 :28

You know the largest oil companies in the world in your end. The difference is between those organizations and some of the similarities is just fascinating so. It is kind of fun to go in and do data cleaning you know at a granular level and don’t get to do that this year and yet you know once they get past the fact that I’ve got to look up thousands of cells I’m having fun with it.

00:01:52 :14 – 00:02:40 :20

And