HR Happy Hour

Hosted by Steve Boese and Trish McFarlane, the HR Happy Hour show is the longest running and top downloaded HR podcast.

Over the last decade the HR Happy Hour has welcomed a wide and exceptionally impressive array of guests – HR leaders, Academics, practitioners, consultants, and authors – to talk about the most timely, relevant, and challenging issues that are influencing HR technology, impacting organizations, and driving change in the global workplace today.

Hosted by

Steve Boese

Co-Founder of H3 HR Advisors and Program Chair, HR Technology Conference

Trish McFarlane

CEO and Principal Analyst, H3 HR Advisors

HR Happy Hour Episodes

HR Happy Hour 457 – The End of Jobs and the Future of Work

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we were joined by Jeff Wald, the founder of WorkMarket and enterprise software platform that enables companies to manage freelancers (acquired by ADP) to talk about his recent book “The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers and Agile Corporations”, and how the nature of work has changed and will continue to evolve going forward.

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HR Happy Hour 456 – HCM Technology for the Small and Mid-Size Organization

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we were joined by Hanif Ismail from Oracle NetSuite to talk about some of the challenges and opportunities with HR and HCM technology for the small and mid-size organization. Hanif shared an overview of Oracle NetSuite, the advantages for small and mid-size organizations with having a single platform for their enterprise technology platform, and how Oracle NeSuite has been supporting their customers throughout the pandemic of this year.

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HR Happy Hour 455 – The Problems with Optimizing People Management

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we were joined by Professor Peter Cappelli from the Wharton School to talk about his recent HBR cover article , “Stop Overengineering People Management”.

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HR Happy Hour 454 – Payroll Innovation and the Importance of On-Demand Pay

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we were joined by Seth Pelletier, Senior Product Manager, at Ceridian, to talk about how the way employers pay their employees is evolving, and to share some of the innovative ways employers can leverage pay flexibility to create great employee experiences.

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HR Happy Hour 453 – Creating Great Customer Experiences in HR Technology

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we were joined by Chris Armstrong, Chief Customer Officer at Ceridian, to talk about the role of the Chief Customer Officer, and how it is important to have an integrated approach when supporting customers, particularly during difficult and challenging times.

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HR Happy Hour 452 – Job Seeking and Hiring Trends During the Pandemic

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we were joined by Kathryn Minshew from The Muse, a career platform used by over 75 million people to find their best-fit jobs, companies and careers to talk about how the pandemic has changed job seeker behavior, how companies have adapted their recruiting strategies, and the increasing importance of authenticity in the hiring process.

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HR Happy Hour 451 – Workplace Movie Hall of Fame: The Best Workplace Scenes

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, Steve and Trish return with the Workplace Movie Hall of Fame series, this time focusing on some of our favorite workplace movie scenes of all time.

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HR Happy Hour 450 – Making Work Human

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we were joined by Derek Irvine, Senior Vice President, Client Strategy & Consulting for Workhuman,to talk about the new book, “Making Work Human:How Human-Centered Companies are Changing the Future of Work and the World” that Derek co-authored with Eric Mosley.

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HR Happy Hour 449 – Getting Work Done with Collaborative Technology

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we were joined by Mike Psenka and Jason Seiden from Moovila, a work and project management software provider that helps organizations keep projects on track, and people accountable to each other, and the organization.

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HR Happy Hour 448 – How Google Took its Famous Internship Program Remote

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we were joined by Kyle Ewing from Google, to talk about how Google shifted their famous and legendary summer internship program to a 100% remote model, in a very short timeframe. Kyle shared the key elements of a successful internship program, how they adapted the program in the time of the pandemic, and gave advice for HR leaders on how to make the most of their internship programs.

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