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Work Tech Weekly

Hosted by Rep Cap · business · EN

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About this Podcast:

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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What is Work Tech Weekly about?

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.

Who hosts Work Tech Weekly?

Work Tech Weekly is hosted by Rep Cap. The show has published 41 episodes to date.

What has Work Tech Weekly covered recently?

Recent episodes include "Employee Engagement Surveys and the Survey Fatigue Myth" (23 October 2026, 31 minutes), "How AI Is Reshaping the Leader vs Manager Debate" (16 October 2026, 33 minutes), and "Why Compliance Matters When Choosing AI Hiring Tools" (13 October 2026, 31 minutes).

How often does Work Tech Weekly publish?

Work Tech Weekly publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 36 minutes across 41 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on Work Tech Weekly?

Booking probability for Work Tech Weekly is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Work Tech Weekly requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Work Tech Weekly's contact route on record: verified email.

Who should pitch Work Tech Weekly?

The strongest fits for Work Tech Weekly are IT Services & Software Development. Work Tech Weekly has a business audience.

About the host

Rep Cap hosts Work Tech Weekly, a business podcast with 41 episodes published.

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Recent episodes

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  • Work Tech Weekly

    Employee Engagement Surveys and the Survey Fatigue Myth

    Oct 23, 202631 min

    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...

  • Work Tech Weekly

    How AI Is Reshaping the Leader vs Manager Debate

    Oct 16, 202633 min

    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...

  • Work Tech Weekly

    Why Compliance Matters When Choosing AI Hiring Tools

    Oct 13, 202631 min

    When a candidate asks to have their data deleted, Somen Mondal says the typical company has no idea what to do. The Co-Founder and CEO of Amp explains why compliance separates the AI hiring tools that hold up from the...

  • Work Tech Weekly

    How to Balance Time to Hire and Quality of Hire

    Oct 9, 202638 min

    Heidi Barnett builds tools that cut time to hire. She still wants employers to wait 24 hours before sending an automated rejection. The President of isolved Talent Acquisition and founder of ApplicantPro explains why...

  • Work Tech Weekly

    How International Payroll Can Solve the Last Mile Problem

    Oct 8, 202640 min

    An international payroll payment can lose 5 to 7% of its value and days of time as it hops from bank to bank on its way to a remote worker, according to Albert Owusu-Asare. The co-founder and CEO of Cadana explains why...

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    Why the SaaSpocalypse Is Overblown for HR Tech

    Oct 5, 202627 min

    David Wilson has tracked the HR tech market for almost 30 years. He calls the SaaSpocalypse "overblown significantly," but he thinks it's already changing who gets to win. David is the founder and CEO of Fosway Group, a...

  • Work Tech Weekly

    Why a Reference Check Only Works If You Can Verify It

    Oct 1, 202627 min

    James Lord has spent more than a decade in reference checking. Increasingly, he says, the person giving the reference is sometimes the candidate. James leads expansion in the Americas for Refapp, a Swedish reference...

  • Work Tech Weekly

    UNBOUND Recap: HubSpot's Next Act Looks a Lot Like Work Tech

    Sep 25, 202647 min

    HubSpot wants AI agents running your whole go-to-market workflow, and Alec Cherrin came back from UNBOUND with a short list of features he'd turn on tomorrow and plenty he wouldn't. In a live AMA, Steve Smith and Rep...

  • Work Tech Weekly

    Why PEO Software Wins the SMB Market Others Abandon

    Sep 24, 202633 min

    Kevin Andrews has spent three decades watching HR tech vendors promise to serve small business and then drift upmarket. Now Board Advisor and Chief AI and Transformation Officer at PrismHR and Vensure Employer...

  • Work Tech Weekly

    The Best Recruitment Marketing Strategies Start With the Career Site

    Sep 22, 202635 min

    Neil Costa started his career in e-commerce in 1996, well before "candidate experience" was a phrase anyone in HR used. Decades later, running HireClix, he's convinced almost none of them treat their career site like...

  • Work Tech Weekly

    Why AI Can't Replace Human Judgment in Employer of Record

    Sep 17, 202638 min

    Bjorn Reynolds started Safeguard Global in 2008, running what looked like a global employer of record business years before anyone had a name for the category. Almost two decades later, he's convinced the AI era doesn't...

  • Work Tech Weekly

    The Resume Is Dead. Skills-Based Hiring Is Replacing It.

    Sep 9, 202633 min

    One of Josh Millet's customers watched their applicant volume nearly double in a year, even while posting fewer jobs, because candidates are now sending AI agents to apply on their behalf, sometimes to roles they don't...

  • Work Tech Weekly

    What AI Means for the Future of Leadership Development

    Aug 28, 202637 min

    For years, Dean Carter turned down every opportunity to become a CEO, watching the job chew up leaders he respected. He spent that time reinventing the Chief People Officer role instead, and eventually the CEO seat came...

  • Work Tech Weekly

    How to Build a Coaching Culture People Actually Want to Work In

    Aug 24, 202644 min

    Jenn Harrold's hiring model at NewDay USA runs on a bet most of the mortgage industry won't make: skip the résumé filter that rewards prior experience, and screen for coachability instead. "It is very difficult to undo...

  • Work Tech Weekly

    The Blind Spot That's Blocking Self-Awareness in Leadership

    Aug 14, 202642 min

    Eric Nitzberg has delivered 360-degree feedback to executives, built from 20 stakeholders, then watched them privately negotiate with their own data before deciding what to believe. His read on why: most leaders will...

  • Work Tech Weekly

    Rewards and Recognition Is a Strategy Signal, Not Just a Morale Program

    Aug 7, 202637 min

    KeyAnna Schmiedl points to a Workhuman initiative where recognition messages quietly shifted from celebrating progress to describing the work as "disentangling a ball of wires," weeks before anyone raised it in a status...

  • Work Tech Weekly

    How AI Can Catch the Medical Billing Errors Your Employees Never Will

    Jul 31, 202636 min

    Nataly Youssef points to a bill for a true medical emergency that got miscoded as a minor symptom, and cost someone thousands of dollars before anyone caught it. The Founder and CEO of Reclaim Health breaks down why...

  • Work Tech Weekly

    The Employee Relations Fix That Turns Reactive HR Into Predictive Intelligence

    Jul 20, 202643 min

    Deb Muller founded HR Acuity to solve a problem that didn't have a name yet. Misconduct and retaliation claims just hit an all-time high, and AI is showing up in employee relations before anyone's agreed on how to use...

  • Work Tech Weekly

    Is Universal Basic Income Coming to Save Us From AI Layoffs?

    Jul 13, 202632 min

    Conrad Shaw has been making the case for universal basic income for a decade. AI layoffs are making it impossible to ignore. The filmmaker and UBI advocate breaks down why this automation wave is different from every...

  • Work Tech Weekly

    Silence Before the Exit: Why Employees Quit

    Jun 26, 202637 min

    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...

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