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The Shred is a weekly roundup of what’s making headlines in the world of employment. The Shred is brought to you today by Jobcase.
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Dude, it turns out that Winston Smart Recruiter's first AI hiring sidekick is taking all the grunt work out of Recruiter's Day. Things like candidate screening, scheduling, all the admin garbage no one actually wants to touch. Winston can do it all.
Man, you know I'm a fan of using new tech that takes the boring repetitive crap out of a Recruiter's Day and allows them to have more time to connect with hiring managers and candidates.
Yep, Winston is doing the heavy lifting while recruiters kick back and do the actual hiring stuff. You know, like talking to people.
I really dig that Smart Recruiters is evolving out of the legacy ATS model and embracing cleaner processes using AI. With most ATS providers, it's like, hey, 2003 called and it wants its 30-minute application process back.
No doubt. It sounds like Rebecca and the team are using Winston to push Smart Recruiters into the future while the ATS vendors are basically on an AOL dial-up modem with a dashboard.
With Smart Recruiters, Winston does the grind and the recruiters get the glory.
For more information on superhuman hiring with Winston, visit smartrecruiters.com. That's smartrecruiters.com.
Start using Winston today, or I guess you can stick with...
Now we return you to our regular scheduled program in progress.
Hide your kids, lock the doors. You're listening to HR's most dangerous podcast. Chad Soash and Joel Cheeseman.
Hi kids, it's Cole Cheeseman, and I'm bringing you The Shred for the third week of August 2025. The Shred is a weekly roundup of what's making headlines in the world of employment. The Shred is brought to you today by Jobcase. The online community will work with all kinds, like hourly employees, tradespeople, and healthcare technicians. Access jobs, make connections, and support each other in every aspect of their work life. Jobcase has over 100 million workers on their platform, so if you need to hire, you probably need to talk to Jobcase today. Learn more by going to jobcase.com/hire. Again, that's jobcase.com/hire.
And now to the news in no particular order. Irvine, California-based Visage and Los Angeles-based Robot merged to create a unified AI recruiting platform, combining real-time sourcing and enterprise automation. The solution accelerates hiring, improves candidate quality, and ensures compliance, enabling teams from startups to Fortune 100s to build pipelines in minutes with higher engagement and measurable ROI.
Another one.
Workday confirmed a data breach in a third-party customer database, exposing contact details like names, emails, and phone numbers. The stolen data may fuel social engineering scams. Workday stressed customer HR data was unaffected, but gave few details amid broader sales force-related cyber attacks.
San Francisco-based Upwork launched Lifted, a subsidiary focused on enterprise staffing, combining talent sourcing, contracting, and workforce management. Lifted leverages Upwork's marketplace and AI talent pool to provide scalable, compliant solutions for managing diverse contingent workforce needs across countries, contracts, and classifications.
Workday has acquired San Francisco-based Flowwise, a low-code AI agent development platform. The deal enhances Workday's ability to support rapid, customizable, and responsible AI innovation for HR and finance, offering customers streamlined tools for building, deploying, and managing AI agents across industries.
Professional.me, an Abu Dhabi-based HR tech startup, raised $3.1 million in seed funding led by Rahah Beach Ventures, bringing total funding to $4.6 million. Founded in 2024, the platform uses personalized micro LLMs to replace resumes and aims to expand engineering, partnerships, and EMEA access.
A Florida judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing Deal of aiding sanctioned Russian entities, a case unrelated to Rippling's ongoing claims. Deal framed the dismissal as undermining Rippling's RICO allegations. Though, both lawsuits involve separate circumstances. Litigation between the rival HR platforms continues in California.
Deal launched its AI workforce, a platform feature enabling companies to create, manage, and deploy AI agents for HR and payroll tasks. The beta release includes seven specialized agents to streamline hiring, compliance, payroll, scheduling, IT, time off, and offboarding. Processes across 150-plus countries.
Large employers expect a 9% healthcare cost increase in 2026, the steepest in over a decade, driven by pharmacy spending, chronic conditions, and high-cost therapies. Many plan to renegotiate vendor contracts or shift costs to employees despite efforts to limit coverage reductions.
Nearly 2/3 of job seekers say salaries lag inflation, though more are negotiating pay. Employed data shows rising salary discussions, partially driven by transparency. Benefits like healthcare and 401K remain key, highlighting ongoing tension between compensation progress and economic realities. Be sure to tune in to the weekly show for this and more news and commentary from the world of recruiting. Big thanks to Jobcase for supporting the shred. No matter the size of your company, you can quickly find great workers in the Jobcase community. Whether you need one employee around the corner or want to hire hundreds across the country, Jobcase helps you find the right people fast.
Hit up jobcase.com/hire to learn more. Again, that's jobcase.com/hire. Cheeseman out.
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