Spilling the Tea on HR Tech: Workday's $43B Buyout Rumor, Remembering Dolly Parton

In this episode, Stacey and Cliff remember Dolly Parton and her legacy as a philanthropist and advocate of workers’ rights and pay equity.   In business news: Checkr acquires Truv, Lattice acquires Pando, and Adam Weber launches Helm. Silver Lake reportedly in talks to take Workday private in a $43B deal. Mobley v. Workday hiring discrimination case moves forward with broader scope. Workday deepens its Compa partnership for real-time market data. Mike Schumacher joins isolved as chief sales officer. Google pays $10M for Spirit Airlines corporate data to train AI. A Chinese university study finds AI use boosts homework scores but tanks exam performance. The Dutch Data Protection Authority flags AI hiring tools for violation of the EU AI Act. New research documents the pay equity gap for Australian women in leadership. Bill Gates writes a 6,000-word essay on the dangers of AI.