Insights on Work, Talent, Learning, Leadership, and HR Technology
The US economy just keeps creating jobs and unemployment went down again. In this video I explain the “story of three curves,” which explains this new economy we live in. I hope this helps you understand what’s going on – it’s all about The Post-Industrial Age. Despite this long-term low unemployment rate, inflation remains ... Read more»
This week Rippling, a fast-growing mid-market HR Tech company, introduced a fascinating product called Talent Signal. This product reads work output data from Github (for engineers), Salesforce and Gong (for sales people), and Zendesk (for service reps) and uses AI to analyze their performance.
How does it work? The system uses several inputs. With ... Read more»
Are you having a hard time figuring out which AI products are real and how they all fit together?
In our ongoing efforts to help you understand the HR Tech market, we’ve produced a report we call the AI in HR trailblazers.
This report lists selected the top 30 vendors which have developed working, ... Read more»
In the Spring of 2018 I attended a confidential meeting in New York City to learn about a project called Lifion. ADP had hired a new team of engineers convened in a secret mission to build the “next-generation platform” for ADP’s offerings in the enterprise market.
This new system, designed ten years after the release ... Read more»
This week at Workday Rising we’re announcing our new partnership with Workday. As one of the selected Workday Innovation Partners, we are developing a deep integration between Galileo and Workday.
Galileo, as many of you know, is “Your Essential AI Assistant for Everything HR.” Filled with 25+ years of research, benchmarks, ... Read more»
In this week’s podcast I give you some insights on HR tech in 2025, perspectives on jobs, and what you’ll be dealing with in 2025. We just had two weeks of HR Tech announcements and next week you’ll see a big one from us! (The biggest product announcement in my career, to be a little ... Read more»
Aimbridge manages 1100 hotels around the US and employs more than 45,000 employees. In this podcast, Conrad Riddle, VP of HR Shared Services at Aimbridge Hospitality, discusses how the company empowers employees (“Uberizing the Workforce”) and delivers a flexible, highly engaged workforce with dynamic workforce scheduling. The company leverages UKG Workforce Management to give employees ... Read more»
In this week’s podcast I go through the 30 HR Technology AI Trailblazers in some detail. You’ll hear about all the companies in the Trailblazer Report, as well as some of my personal thoughts on their leadership teams, centers of innovation, and differentiating capabilities.
My keynote at HR Tech was 75 minutes long and ... Read more»
This podcast details what Workday’s new AI platform, Workday Illuminate, and also describes Workday’s momentum coming out of Rising. I also discuss why Salesforce slams Microsoft, the new tsunami of Agents, including Microsoft, Salesforce (who is charging $2 per conversation), SAP, Workday, UKG, ServiceNow, and others. I also discuss the near-term job disruption we’re ... Read more»
In our latest WhatWorks podcast, Samantha Garvie, HR Safety and Compliance Director at Rowley’s Wholesale, speaks with Kathi Enderes from The Josh Bersin Company.
Rowley’s Wholesale, a Michigan-based distributor of automotive and industrial products, has been in business for over 100 years and is currently in its third generation of ownership. With 125+ ... Read more»
Today Workday introduced Workday Illuminate, the new brand name for Workday AI. While the name is not important, this new brand demonstrates a shift from AI “dazzlers” to AI “capabilities” within the entire Workday platform. In other words, Workday has now built an underlying AI infrastructure that can manifest solutions in hundreds of ways.... Read more»
As most of you know, developing business skills takes time. You have to ask people questions, take a few courses, and learn from your mistakes. If you’re a software engineer, this means writing buggy code. But if you’re a sales rep or a manager, it could mean trouble: losing deals, alienating people, and possibly being ... Read more»
This week Klarna, a buy-now pay-later company in Sweden, announced plans to terminate its Workday and Salesforce relationships and build it themselves. A bunch of tech pundits are big fans, but I have my doubts. As you’ll hear in the podcast, many big companies (much bigger than Klarna) have tried this, only to retreat to ... Read more»
Agentic AI is the next big wave in AI, where AI systems and chatbots can take actions on our behalf. These agents can perform tasks such as composing emails, creating documents, building courses, and even recruiting. They can be seen as virtual employees or teammates that can be trained and managed. These agents will change ... Read more»
The Agents are coming, the Agents are coming.
If you follow the AI tech market you know there’s a lot of talk about “Agentic AI.” In other words, our friendly AI assistants are starting to feel more empowered. Instead of just answering questions and composing poetry, they’re now able to “do things” on ... Read more»
Cornerstone spent the last decade acquiring LMS and talent software companies, all in a goal to build an integrated skills platform. Finally, after years of hard work and integration, the company introduces Galaxy, an advanced offering in the world of AI-powered HR systems.
Before I explain Galaxy, the history is important. Founded in 1999, ... Read more»
In this podcast I discuss the ever-changing role of Labor in our economy, our companies, and our own personal lives. The word “labor” is really an old-fashioned idea, but we still have the US holiday, so I wanted to unpack what it now means.
As you’ll learn Labor Day is a time to think about ... Read more»
One of the most interesting tech companies we’ve studied is Dropbox, a $7 billion market cap rocket ship generating more than $2.5 billion in revenue. This kind of company, which sells a platform that competes with Microsoft, Google, and other major players, lives in a world of brutal competition: competition for product leadership, sales deals, ... Read more»
In this WhatWorks podcast I interview Andy Bradshaw, the CEO of SHL. SHL is one of the world’s largest psychometric assessment vendors, bringing together psychology, skills assessment, and other forms of measurement to identify the capabilities, and potential of an individual at work.
These highly scientific assessments are widely used for pre-hire screening, job-fit ... Read more»
In this week’s podcast I describe the HR Career Navigator and the role of HR skills and capabilities in HR and business transformation. Then, as we approach HR Tech season, I give you my three steps to evaluating HR Tech vendors.
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