Work Tech Weekly

About Work Tech Weekly

Host Steve Smith, Managing Director of Growth at Rep Cap and author of the Work Tech Weekly e-newsletter, offers a weekly inside look at what’s really going on in the Work Tech industry. Steve talks with tech company founders, executives, investors, influencers, and analysts about the whole messy gamut of AI, HR tech, funding, acquisitions, and the strange little signals that say more than the headlines. The WTW Podcast is built for people who want context fast and don’t need everything sanded down to sound polite. The conversations are candid, sometimes messy, and usually useful. If you’ve ever thought, “That’s not the part they should be focusing on,” you’ll feel right at home here.

Publisher

Rep Cap

Category

business · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Jan 2026

Latest episode

6 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

42 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Nov 2026

   Why Great ICs Become Struggling First-Time Managers

   For a long time, the only way to keep growing your career was to manage people, so plenty of great individual contributors took a job they never wanted and got almost no help doing it. Rising Team founder and CEO Jennifer Dulski thinks companies can now fix both problems, and end up with fewer managers who chose the role. She also talks about why cohort-based manager training only lands for about a third of the room, and how “super managers” are leading 10 or 20 direct reports with AI handling the administrative work.

2. 

   23 Oct 2026

   Employee Engagement Surveys and the Survey Fatigue Myth

   JD Peterson thinks survey fatigue is a myth, and that employees will keep answering every employee engagement survey you send as long as they see something happen afterward. The Chief Marketing Officer at Perceptyx explains why his company shifted from running surveys to helping companies act on the results, and what happened when Perceptyx tested how well AI understands employee comments. He also talks about why everyone slapping AI on their marketing has him toning down his own, and where AI sales outreach tools go wrong when nobody checks what they’re sending.

3. 

   16 Oct 2026

   How AI Is Reshaping the Leader vs Manager Debate

   Ben Brooks will bet you that no mid-market executive would call their manager bench “pretty strong.” The founder and CEO of PILOT joins Steve Smith to explain why leadership only multiplies the management underneath it, and why AI is turning decision making into the biggest bottleneck middle managers face.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

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