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 438 – Workplace Movie Hall of Fame: Everest

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we were joined by long time friend of the show Cecile Alper-Leroux to talk about the 2015 movie “Everest” in the return of the Workplace Movie Hall of Fame series.

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HR Happy Hour 437 – Communication and Workforce Engagement During a Crisis

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we were joined by Regine Buettner of DHL Express, a global company with presence in 220 countries and 104K employees, to discuss the importance of focusing on employee communication during a crisis and working to make sure the front-line workforce feels safe and informed.

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HR Happy Hour 436 – Enabling Virtual Hiring with Modern HR Technology

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we were joined by Vivek Ravisankar from HackerRank to discuss the rapid shift to 100% virtual hiring, how modern HR technology tools can support HR and TA leaders with fully remote hiring, and how remote work will enable many more companies to build deep and diverse teams and reduce bias.

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HR Happy Hour 435 – Building a More Human-Centric Workplace

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we were joined by Eric Mosley from Workhuman. […]

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HR Happy Hour 434 – Creating Compelling Virtual Learning Experiences

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we were joined by Michelle Boockoff-Bajdek from Skillsoft.

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HR Happy Hour 433 – The HR and Workplace Transformation Opportunity

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we were joined by Kim Billeter from EY.

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HR Happy Hour 432 – Caring for Employees as We Get Back to Work

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we were joined by Gretchen Alarcon from Oracle.

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HR Happy Hour 431 – Learning Technology and the Employee Experience

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, Steve was joined by Dickens Aubourg from Paycom. Today we have a great topic, the importance of HR Technology in helping to create a great, compelling employee experience at work, and more specifically, how this can help employees and organizations achieve their learning and upskilling and reskilling objectives.

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HR Happy Hour 430 – Managing HR Compliance Needs During the Pandemic

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, Steve and Trish were joined by Jason Fry from Equifax to talk about the recent I-9 and eVerify updates, how the pandemic has changed processes and compliance mandates, and how more organizations are taking advantage of new technologies to manage these processes in a remote, and safe manner, and how Equifax can support employers in these tough times.

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HR Happy Hour 429 – Taking an Intelligent Approach to Reopening the Workplace

This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, Steve and Trish were joined by Rebecca Ray from The Conference Board to talk about the important process of reopening business locations, offices, and other workplaces and what HR leaders should be thinking about and working on as they begin to help their workplaces re-open.

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