While We Were Working: Your Weekly HR Podcast for Empowering People at Work

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While We Were Working

Our weekly HR podcast for people leaders has wrapped — but the conversations held up. Compliance, hiring, performance, leadership, and the people problems every small team eventually runs into.

The full archive

Every episode is still available. Press play, or find the show on your platform of choice.

Still worth your time

Six episodes that aged well, spanning the range the show covered across its run.

Compliance

Is Your Workplace PUMP Act Friendly?

Plus whether I-9s can be completed remotely — two compliance questions that still trip up small teams.

Is Your Workplace PUMP Act Friendly?

Recruiting

Three Recruiting Myths Small Businesses Believe

The hiring assumptions that quietly cost small companies good candidates, and what to do instead.

Three Recruiting Myths Small Businesses Believe

Hiring strategy

Internal Hiring vs. External Hiring

When to promote from within and when to go outside, with Fit Small Business.

Internal Hiring vs. External Hiring

Remote & HR tech

Remote Work Q&A with Cecile Alper-Leroux

A full interview on remote work and where HR technology was heading — much of it landed.

Remote Work QandA with Cecile Alper-Leroux

Performance

Unlocking High Performance

Jason Lauritsen on building performance management people actually engage with.

Unlocking High Performance

Leadership

Dignity in the Workplace

Esther Weinberg on what dignity looks like day to day, and why leaders lose it under pressure.

Dignity in the Workplace

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