This week: John shares some amazing travel adventures from Singapore and Stacey has a big update from Oracle Open World. In funding news, Chinese Cloud-Based HR Firm Beisen Receives $100M and Workplace Experience Platform Envoy Raises $43M.
Amazon scrapped the development of their AI hiring tool because engineers found the AI was unfavorable toward female candidates because it had combed through male-dominated résumés to accrue its data. The heart of this kind of bias lives within basic prediction algorithms.
John Sumser speaks with Matt Hendrickson, Founder & CEO of the Ascendify talent acquisition platform. Matt founded Ascendify to help talent leaders at global companies simplify their complex talent management and recruiting systems.
We are prone to being less honest the more psychologically distant we are from the person we are communicating with. Michael Carden explores the Anonymity Paradox.
Business travel isn’t the same experience for men and women. You’ve got all the normal discomforts and risks of business travel that everyone experiences, then another layer of risks and worries like the kind that Erin Spencer recounts as she attended this year’s HR Technology Conference in Las Vegas.
John and Stacey discuss Slack acquiring email app Astro, Microsoft 365 is getting AI-powered suggestions, WalkMe raises $40 million to help people navigate complex user interfaces, and PeopleFluent Separates Workforce Compliance and Diversity Division and launches new Learning Suite with Merger of NetDimensions.
“For organizational leaders, I think one of the challenges of our times is going to be centered around privilege. What is assumed to be fixed, and what is flexible, will be a factor in determining how an organization is perceived by those who choose to interact with it.” – Victorio Milian
John Sumser speaks with Jason Lauritsen, a keynote speaker, author, and consultant. Jason is an employee engagement and workplace culture expert who will challenge you to think differently. He has just published his latest book about Unlocking High Performance.
A former corporate Human Resources executive, Jason has dedicated his career to helping leaders build organizations that are good for both people and profits.










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