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Work Tech Weekly

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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.

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Recent Episodes

June 26, 2026

Silence Before the Exit: Why Employees Quit

Anthony Klotz says the pre-quit signal isn't a table flip or an angry exit; it's the employee who stopped talking in meetings. The UCL professor and author of Jolted breaks down the six types of jolts that trigger departures, why Year One is the most dangerous window for retention, and why AI may be building toward the next mass wave of workplace re-evaluation.

June 17, 2026

HR Trends 2026: When Every Vendor Sounds the Same

Every vendor at Transform 2026 was leading with AI. Every product had been rebuilt, relaunched, and rebranded. And nobody on that expo floor — not even the investors — could give you a clean answer to what actually made anyone different. In this episode of Work Tech Weekly, Steve Smith sits down with Mike Wood, analyst at HR.com and host of The Totally Talent Podcast, recorded live at Transform 2026 in Las Vegas. Mike has been watching this market long enough to see this pattern before — in employee recognition, in talent acquisition, and now across the entire HR tech stack — and his read on where it’s heading is worth hearing. They get into why the technology has reached parity faster than anyone expected, what the funding clock running out means for buyers who can’t tell vendors apart, and why the next real differentiator in work tech might have nothing to do with the product at all. 📌 Topics covered: • Why HR tech differentiation has collapsed and what’s driving it • What smart buyers should actually evaluate when the demo looks great • The funding crunch pushing vendors toward acquisition or shutdown • Why service is becoming the differentiator nobody wanted to talk about • The fracturing social contract and what it means for the workforce • Why buying paralysis is rational — and what breaks it

June 3, 2026

"Putting Perfume on a Pig": The Truth About AI in Performance Management

Not all AI in performance management is the same. There’s a real difference between AI layered onto a broken process and AI built into the foundation — and after 25 years in this market, Lana Peters can tell them apart on sight. Lana is chief revenue and customer experience officer at Klaar, a predictive performance management platform built from the ground up for AI. She joined Work Tech Weekly host Steve Smith live at Transform 2026 to make the case that the latest wave of HR tech is genuinely different — not a rebrand, not a feature update, not perfume on a pig. They get into what predictive performance management actually looks like in practice, why managers are the linchpin of whether any of this works, how HR is shifting from cost center to profit center, and what the HR buyer is focused on right now. Thirty years of broken promises. This conversation is about what’s finally different.

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What is 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.
How often does this podcast release new episodes?: This podcast updates daily.
Where can I listen to this podcast?: This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
Does this podcast accept guests?: Yes, this podcast regularly features guests.

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