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WorkTech Podcast
Future Insights, Strategy, Innovation
The WorkTech Podcast explores the critical trends shaping the future of work and HR tech. George LaRocque of WorkTech, drawing from years of advising top innovators, investors, and enterprises, guides you through market deals, issues, opportunities, and trends—all through a strategic, actionable lens. Subscribe to the WorkTech Substack here.
The End of the "Sentiment" Era: How Big Data Kills Pay-to-Play Employer Badges
In this episode of the WorkTech Podcast, host George LaRocque sits down with Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Founder and Managing Director of Where You Work Matters and Managing Director at the Schultz Family Foundation, for an unvarnished look at a fundamental paradigm shift in human resources: the death of ...
hackajob Launches Agentic Recruiting Solution with Out-of-the-Box Compliance and Verified First-Party Profiles, Minimizing Enterprise Legal and InfoSec Friction
hackajob CEO Mark Chaffey joins George LaRocque to reveal how a pre-apply AI recruitment agent delivers verified, GDPR-compliant candidates directly into enterprise ATS workflows without triggering automated hiring liabilities. In this episode of the WorkTech Podcast, host George LaRocque sits...
Voice AI, Platform Gravity, and Governed Workflows: Reimagining the Modern ATS Ecosystem
Voice AI, Platform Gravity, and Governed Workflows: Reimagining the Modern ATS Ecosystem Greenhouse CPO Meredith Johnson unpacks how cross-industry insights, the Ezra acquisition, and the new Model Context Protocol are moving enterprise talent acquisition away from passive record-keeping into a secu...
Maximizing High-Volume Recruitment Velocity with Free AI Auditing Tools
Cadient CEO Bill Mastin discusses the rise of AI-generated resumes, deep-fake interviews, and the new modular tools designed to protect recruiters. In this episode of the WorkTech Podcast, host George LaRocque is joined by Bill Mastin, the CEO of Cadient, a highly seasoned operator with a care...
When AI Systems, Startups, and Public Policies Collide
In this high-velocity edition of Up Next @ WorkTech, George LaRocque (WorkTech) and Kate Achille (The Devon Group) reunite for a comprehensive cross-pod. Together, they break down the critical intersection of legal friction, evolving corporate staffing strategies, multi-million-dollar government tec...
Phenom Acquires Plum to Unlock Behavioral Science in HR
In this episode of the WorkTech Podcast, host George LaRocque sits down with Mahe Bayireddi, Co-Founder and CEO of Phenom, to unpack the strategy behind the company's recent acquisition of Plum. Marking Phenom's second assessment-focused deal in ten weeks following their acquisition of BeApplied, th...
Up Next @ WorkTech: Reading the Room on AI: Graduation Boos to Enterprise Disruptions
Welcome to a packed episode of Up Next @ WorkTech, the premier crossover podcast featuring George LaRocque (founder of WorkTech) and Kate Achille (host of The Devon Group’s Up Next at Work podcast). In this edition, George and Kate break down the rapidly shifting intersections of AI, employer levera...
Goldman Sachs Validation: Einat Steklov on Kashable’s $60M Series C and the Future of Workplace Credit
In this episode of the WorkTech Podcast, host George LaRocque sits down with Einat Steklov, co-founder and co-CEO of Kashable, to discuss their monumental $60 million Series C funding round led by the Goldman Sachs Impact Fund. At a time when middle-market funding has been scarce, this deal stands o...
Greenhouse Acquires Ezra AI Labs: The Voice AI Bet Reshaping the Hiring Interface
Why Greenhouse acquired Ezra AI Labs, what it signals for voice AI in HR tech, and how the hiring interface is about to change. In a WorkTech exclusive, George LaRocque sits down with Greenhouse CEO and founder Daniel Chait just after the announcement that Greenhouse has entered a definitive agreeme...
Beyond the AI Smokescreen
In this comprehensive April 2026 edition of the Up Next @ WorkTech crosspod, George LaRocque (founder of WorkTech) and Kate Achille (The Devon Group) reunite after a season of travel and industry events to dissect the complex, often contradictory state of the modern workplace. The conversation strik...