After a month on the road and eight industry events, Stacey Harris and Cliff Stevenson are back with plenty to spill. They share takeaways from Workday Rising, HR Tech, Oracle AI World, Dayforce, UKG, Unit4, CodeSignal, and People Analytics World. The big themes are a renewed focus on compliance, Workday’s expanding native payroll, Dayforce’s push into collaborative AI and customer-built bots, and UKG’s headless approach.
Stacey and Cliff also dig into the debate over the word “headless,” how AI pricing and API charges are shaking up budgets, and why finance still struggles to see HR as strategic. Then come the headlines: Dayforce acquiring Ribbon AI, a new CEO at Eightfold, Allegheny County’s first-of-its-kind county-level paid parental leave mandate, and recent cyberattacks that hit HR data. The episode ends with a speed round of new AI research, including why your favorite AI model always picks the number seven.
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