Progressive HR Newsletter - 2022, the Year in Review

Hello Resourceful Humans,

Welcome to the 15th edition of Progressive HR Newsletter. A multitude of gratitude for spending this year with us. The Progressive HR team and I appreciate your support and readership. May you all have a prosperous and fab 2023!

Check out our 2022 Year in Review below. ????

What is Progressive HR? Progressive HR is an organization that supports the ideal that our world is full of talent, we are only beginning to understand the potential for human innate perspectives, skills and resourcefulness. Progressive HR involves: #HRTech , #WorkTech , #NewWorkWays , #NewWorkMindsets , and #Web3

?? The most popular trending news reports in HR Tech, Workplace Tech and Web 3.0

We reported on over 42 start-ups funding rounds, new tech features and updates in 2022. Here are a few of the most popular in no particular order.

Edition 14 (November) - 5Mins.ai raised a round of funding in a bid to introduce a bit of "workplace learning in an attention-deficit world". Think the gamified Edtech version of TikTok. 5Mins raised a $5.7 million round at a $16 million pre-money valuation.

Since going to market in March 2018, its recurring revenue has grown 20x. "We are building the first global learning super-app that companies of all sizes can use to upskill everyone, improve employee retention and drive innovation," said co-founder and CEO Saurav Chopra Over the next two year the startup will use the funding to focus on building out its team, moving into more countries and verticals, and building a more robust set of metrics to see the efficacy of the platform on business outcomes.

Edition 13 (October) - Israeli HR Tech startup?TaTiO ?raised $5.3M seed ?for their AI-based work simulations platform to help diverse/underrepresented job seekers prove their skills.

Edition 10 (July) - ?Robin , a workforce platform that manages hybrid work,?raises $30M ?betting that hybrid is here to stay.

Edition 5 (March) - Supervity announces $1.5M in seed funding . Techforce.ai - featured above - will use these funds to accelerate the development of its no-code SaaS product and expand its global presence. In a recent press release Sriram Papani ,?Co-Founder & CEO, said “We believe the future of work will be driven by higher cognitive work, and our vision is to empower workers with our user-friendly AI and Automation software. We see immense opportunity, as less than 1% of knowledge workers today have access to automation and just-in-time assistance to succeed in the evolving digital workplace”. #worktech

Edition 4 (February) - Deel is now enabling businesses to fund payroll in USDC. Per a recent blog post titled Cha-Ching! Businesses can now fund payroll in USDC , "companies that hold their money in USDC can make a payment directly to Deel via their Coinbase account to cover payroll and payments for their global team. Once the business has paid the money into Deel, contractors can withdraw in over 150 currencies, including Crypto."

Edition 2 (January) - Quan Wellbeing raised $1.5M from YCombinator to tackle worker burnout. CEO & Co-Founder Arosha Bouwer told TechCrunch, "?“For far too long, players in the people and culture platforms have been measuring ‘employee engagement’ and ‘employee experience’ without providing ways to effectively manage well-being and linking it directly to business metrics. Hence the reason why issues such as burn-out and toxic corporate cultures have been trending in the wrong way."

Arosha along with CPO & Co-Founder Lucy Howie , launched the beta product in March 2021, and are now working with 12 organizations, over 1,000 paid users and a platform engagement rate of 88%. Read more about Quan here.

??Progressive HR Community - Posts, Quotes and more from 2022

Progressive HR Newsletter featured over 32 members of our community in 2022. Here are a sample of the posts, quotes from editorials and more from the HR and People Operations professionals rocking their content in 2022.

Edition 13 - Tim Gourley , Manager of Talent Acquisition with Vestmark , from Is Adding Wednesday a Good Idea for your RTO Strategy editorial

Talent Acquisition is caught right in the middle trying to gauge market conditions, attract talent amid the “Great Resignation” and explain to employers that most potential candidates in this tight labor market still DO NOT want a mandate to come back into the office.?

Edition 11 - Emily Harvin, MHR , HR Director with CAIF Nutrition , from Startup Survival Tips for a Downturn editorial

4)?????Make Hard Choices

"Remember that the worst decision you can make is no decision at all."

Edition 9 - Trish P. , Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with Versiti Inc. from What Masks Do You Wear? editorial

As leaders, our responsibility is to challenge our norms in support of honoring the human we are privileged to have as part of our team.

Edition 10 - Nidhi S. from Seeking Balance?

The goldilocks zone is for individuals and organizations to decide collectively. Having no playbook or road map, we will have to experiment to find a balance between home and work, personal flexibility and team collaboration, creativity and productivity, engagement and attrition.??

Edition 3 - A post from Julie Turney, (HRforHR)

Julie Turney is taking a stand for normalizing setting healthy boundaries and prioritizing self-care at work.

Edition 1 - A post from Harry Stone , Pandemic Parenting

Harry Stone , Global Talent Acquisition Lead at TikTok/ByteDance shared yesterday that he "had a very 2022 moment" when he was "reviewing applicants and came across a resume with a career gap starting in 2021." The resume listed "Pandemic Parenting/Stay at home Mom". Find out more about this post here Pandemic Parenting. Thank you for sharing Harry.

?? Progressive HR Live broadcasts from 2022

We had a fab group of HR, Tech and People Operations professionals join us for Progressive HR Live on LinkedIn this year. Check out the playlists from all our Season 2 episodes.

1. "How Creator Tools are Shaping the Future of EX" , Marnie Robbins , Head of People, Resolve (previous Podsights)
2. "Reimaging the People Function" , Mindy H. Honcoop, CPO and Founder of Agile in HR
3. "Human Experience Tech: The Modern Approach to Employee Listening" , Robert Brown , CEO, Olumo
4. "Modern HR, the Creator Economy & Citizen Developers" , Vijay Navaluri , Co-Founder & CCO, Supervity
5. "Inclusive Employee Benefits" , Brittany Tofinchio Palmer , CEO, Beeyonder
6. "The Truth About Employee Burnout" , Kristin Strunk , Director of Culture and Talent, 万宝盛华 (previous Harley Davidson)
7. "Align your Benefits to who you are" , John Adcock , Chief People Officer, Eventbrite (previous Care.com)
8. "Breaking Through the Corporate Wellness Noise" , Arosha Brouwer , Co-Founder & CEO, Quan - employee well-being

Season 3 of Progressive HR Live launches January 31, 2023! With our first guest, Karen D. Weeks, SPHR, MS the Head of People with Ordergroove . Stay tuned for more information on the 2023 Season launch!

If you or your organization is interested in sponsoring an episode of the Progressive HR Live show Season 3, DM Coreyne Woodman-Holoubek for a sponsorship one-sheet and more details.

?? What's new at Progressive HR

Well, you will have to wait to our first edition of 2023 to find out....stay tuned!

Thank you all for engaging with this edition of Progressive HR Newsletter. See you virtually next year. - The Progressive HR team; Kristin, Mindy, Cat, and Coreyne

Coreyne Woodman-Holoubek ?is an HR Executive and thought-leader with over 18 years of global business and human resource leadership expertise cultivated in the United States, the United Kingdom and Spain. She is the Founder of Progressive HR, the host of Progressive HR Live on LinkedIn, the Creator of "HR Stand Out & Make an Impact on LinkedIn" and a LinkedIn Top Voice in Company Culture. Coreyne is passionate about emerging HR technology and new work ways; and is a sought-after creator, influencer and media personality for HR tech, Work tech, and the future of work conversations across the globe.

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