Work is changing faster than most organizations are built to handle. AI, skills volatility, compliance complexity, and operating pressure are reshaping how large enterprises work.
Piece of Work, a podcast from Dayforce, explores the tough HCM decisions and tradeoffs inside modern organizations, and what they mean for the senior leaders responsible for workforce strategy, performance, and risk. Hosted by Eric Glass, each episode brings together executives, operators, researchers, and practitioners to dig into what's really happening — and even what should be happening — in enterprise HCM.
Sharp, practical, and always entertaining, Piece of Work is for senior HR and business leaders who need clear, candid insights on how workforce strategy can either hold organizations back — or move them forward.
Most workforce planning still starts with a job, but work is changing too quickly for that model to keep up. Ravin Jesuthasan (https://www.ravinjesuthasan.com/) argues that HR can no longer operate only as a steward of employment. It has to become a steward of work, helping the business redesign how work gets done instead of just filling requisitions. Ravin, global transformation leader at Mercer and co-author of Work Without Jobs (https://www.workwithoutjobs.com/), explains why the real building blocks are tasks, skills, and machine capability, and why the organizations moving fastest are prototyping new operating models before everyone else catches up.
22 Jul 2026
When your compliance mistakes become headlines
Most compliance failures don’t start with a lawsuit, a regulator, or a damaging headline. They start with a small decision, a missed update, or a process that quietly drifts out of sync with the business. In this episode of Piece of Work, host Eric Glass sits down with Courtney Vinopal, Senior Reporter at HR Brew, and Mark Bateson, Global HR and Payroll Transformation Leader at Deloitte, to explore how routine workforce decisions can evolve into major enterprise risk. They unpack why organizations miss early warning signs, how compliance gaps emerge as businesses move faster, and what HR leaders can do to strengthen governance, maintain visibility, and stay ahead of problems before they become public.
8 Jul 2026
When frontline churn hits your CFO’s radar
Frontline turnover rarely shows up in the financials first. It shows up in overtime, scheduling volatility, absenteeism, manager strain, and the slow erosion of service consistency.
In this episode of Piece of Work, Dallas Cowboys CFO Tom Walker (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-walker-3517b55/) joins host Eric Glass to examine the moment churn stops being an HR issue and starts becoming a business problem for Finance. The question isn’t whether turnover matters. It’s how early HR can surface the warning signs, and how quickly leaders can connect those signals to revenue risk before the damage is done.
24 Jun 2026
Change fatigue is growing. Can HR keep it from hitting the P&L?
Your organization may look like it’s moving: meetings are happening, plans are active, teams are pushing harder. But motion isn’t the same as progress.
Change fatigue often shows up quietly. Decisions slow down. Managers get overloaded. Adoption looks shallow. Then the cost starts to become visible in productivity, execution, and eventually the P&L.
In this episode of Piece of Work, host Eric Glass talks with Andrew Seaman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewmseaman/), Editor at Large for Jobs and Career Development at LinkedIn News, and Deepa Abi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepaabi/), a transformation leader with deep enterprise experience, about what leaders miss when change looks fine in the boardroom but breaks on the front line. They dig into why workers are holding onto jobs out of fear, how fatigue turns into business risk, and where HR has the most leverage before the damage becomes financial.
10 Jun 2026
Leadership pipelines are breaking. Can companies get by without them?
If one of your most important leaders left tomorrow, who could actually step in? Not eventually. Not after a stretch assignment, a development plan, or six months of coaching. Tomorrow.
That’s where leadership pipelines get tested. In this episode of Piece of Work, host Eric Glass sits down with Wharton Professor Peter Cappelli and MCC Label CHRO Tatiana Berardinelli to examine why many organizations no longer develop future leaders with the consistency they once did, what gets exposed when succession plans don’t reflect real readiness, and how HR can rebuild leadership capacity before a critical role is suddenly empty.
27 May 2026
When superperformers become HR’s biggest liability
In today’s leaner, flatter organizations, top performers don’t just drive results. They often carry structural weight. But when too much work, knowledge, and decision-making concentrates around a few indispensable people, talent density can quietly become talent dependency.
In this episode of Piece of Work, host Eric Glass sits down with Rebecca Kehoe (https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/people/rebecca-kehoe) (Professor, Cornell University) and Brandy Garnero (https://www.foundrycommercial.com/people/brandy-garnero/) (CHCO, Foundry Commercial) to explore how superperformers can create hidden enterprise risk — from execution bottlenecks and burnout to knowledge concentration and succession gaps — and what HR can do to protect business continuity without lowering the bar.
13 May 2026
Can HR’s data survive the executive table?
HR leaders have more workforce data than ever. But when metrics get questioned, dashboards create debate, and executives turn to the numbers they trust most, HR’s influence can take a big hit.
In this episode, Eric Glass sits down with Stacey Harris (https://www.linkedin.com/in/staceyharris) (CRO and Managing Partner, Sapient Insights Group (https://sapientinsights.com/)) to explore why workforce data often breaks down under scrutiny, and what it takes for HR to deliver insights CEOs and boards actually trust.
29 Apr 2026
Piece of Work season 2 premieres May 13
HR transformation is easy to talk about in broad terms — agility, efficiency, reinvention. But beneath those ambitions are harder questions about leadership depth, execution risk, and the tradeoffs organizations may not fully see until it’s too late.
Season 2 of Piece of Work: a Dayforce podcast, premieres May 13. Host Eric Glass connects with top HR leaders and industry experts to unpack the hidden pressures shaping today’s toughest workforce decisions, and what they reveal about the changing role of HR at the highest levels.
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25 Mar 2026
AI is raising the stakes on reskilling — Is HR ready?
Companies are moving fast on AI and assuming reskilling will catch up. But will it?
In this special bonus episode, Eric Glass speaks with Sal Khan, Founder and CEO of Khan Academy, about how AI is compressing roles, shifting skill demands, and exposing the limits of traditional reskilling strategies. Together, they examine what happens when organizations offload adaptation to employees, why the market might not correct fast enough, and where the consequences will ultimately show up for HCM leaders.
14 Jan 2026
AI is changing work fast. Can trust keep up?
AI is reshaping workplace decisions faster than most organizations can explain. In this episode, host Eric Glass digs in with Sal Khan, founder and CEO of Khan Academy, and Katrina Agusti, CIO of Carhartt, about how leaders can manage AI-driven change without losing trust. From transparency to responsible adoption, they explore what it takes to bring people along when technology moves faster than certainty.
17 Dec 2025
What if your top talent isn’t coming back to the office?
Many employers are pushing for a return to the office — but a segment of today’s top performers isn’t coming back. Even in a softer job market, these workers are prioritizing autonomy and location flexibility in ways that traditional policies can’t easily absorb. In this episode, Eric speaks with Sam Laliberte, founder of Freedom Lifestyle, to unpack why some high-value talent is drawing a firm line on in-office expectations, and what leaders should do when flexibility becomes a make-or-break condition.
3 Dec 2025
When career paths disappear, how do leaders keep talent moving?
Career journeys don’t come with directions anymore, and that can leave people feeling lost. Eric connects with Angela Chambers (https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelarchambers/), network news producer turned talent acquisition leader, and Megan Rafuse (https://www.shiftcollab.com/therapists/megan-rafuse), therapist and CEO (Shift Collab) about how organizations can support and guide their people when the path to growth is unclear.
19 Nov 2025
AI is eating entry-level jobs (and your talent pipeline with them)
First-time job seekers today face a tough reality. Starter jobs — those first chances to learn and grow — are disappearing. Host Eric Glass connects with YouTuber Andrey Yasinsky (https://www.youtube.com/@AndreyYasinsky) and workplace futurist Alexandra Levit (https://alexandralevit.com/) to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping the job market, company structures, and the future of work — and what it means for employers who risk losing their next generation of talent.
5 Nov 2025
Why hiring feels broken – and how to put the “human” back in HR
Job seekers are hitting “apply” hundreds of times and hearing nothing back. Recruiters are drowning in resumes. And somewhere in the middle, the human connection has been lost. Host Eric Glass talks with UX designer Yazin Joseph and Kirsten Krug (Kansas City Chiefs) to learn what it really feels like to apply and recruit in the age of AI. Together, they explore how tech, empathy, and trust can make hiring feel human again.
22 Oct 2025
Fixing workplace feedback when the sandwich goes stale
Has the feedback sandwich gone stale? It sure looks that way.
Host Eric Glass sits down with Kaila Lopez (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kailalopez) (Morning Brew) and Dr. Karen MacMillan (https://www.ivey.uwo.ca/faculty_research/directory/karen-macmillan/)(Ivey Business School) to unpack why sugarcoating feedback leaves teams starving for clarity — and how leaders can build a culture where candor, trust, and two-way conversation are always on the menu.
8 Oct 2025
Is AI turning up the heat on burnout?
AI promised to take away our burnout. But what if it’s doing the opposite? Eric Glass sits down with creative strategist Andy Newman (linkedin.com/in/andfyi) (Creative Taxi) and organizational psychologist Dr. Kira Schabram (https://foster.uw.edu/faculty-research/directory/kira-schabram/) (Penn State) to find out what happens when AI raises expectations faster than it raises productivity — and how leaders can bring their workplace to a healthier temperature.
1 Oct 2025
Why fewer people want to be managers (and how to fix it)
Why do fewer people want to be managers? Host Eric Glass (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericmglass/?originalSubdomain=uk) joins organizational behavior expert Rachel Pacheco (https://rachelpacheco.com/) (Georgetown University) and HR expert Dan Staley (https://conferences.shrm.org/presenter/dan-staley)(PwC) to unpack why — and how companies can make leadership a job worth wanting.
To explore more about Dayforce, visit www.dayforce.com
18 Sept 2025
Introducing Piece of Work
It’s no secret that workplace trends come and go — quiet quitting, bare minimum Mondays, mini-retirements. They might seem like passing fads, but they often reveal deeper, lasting shifts in how people show up, lead, and live on the job.
In Piece of Work, a new podcast from Dayforce, host Eric Glass unpacks a different piece of today’s work in every episode — revealing the hidden stories, cultural shifts, and leadership lessons that shape how we work now and where we’re heading next.
Make sure to follow or subscribe so you never miss an episode.
To explore more about Dayforce, visit www.Dayforce.com (http://www.dayforce.com/)
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