People Analytics is a commodity & HRBench will save it - John Barry, Matt Maguire, & Brandon Collins - #170

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with the leadership team of HRBench on the future of people intelligence and the importance of data in HR decisions.

Thanks to HRBench for powering this episode. To find out more about the company building the future of people intelligence, reach out to book a demo at hrbench.com/directionallycorrect ! Check out this episode of the #1 people analytics podcast with special guests, John Barry, Co-CEO at HRBench, Matt Maguire, CRO at HRBench and Brandon Collins, CTO at HRBench! In this wide-ranging and highly practical conversation, host Cole Napper sits down with the leadership team behind HRBench to explore how decades of shared experience in HR tech have shaped their vision for the future of people intelligence. What stands out immediately is the deep working history among the trio—relationships built over years at companies like Salary.com and PayFactors—which has translated into a strong foundation of trust, alignment, and execution speed as they build HRBench. At the core of the discussion is a simple but powerful idea: data should be the foundation of every HR decision. The team reflects on how their early work in compensation analytics revealed a broader gap across HR—organizations lacked a unified way to bring together workforce data, understand it, and act on it strategically. HRBench…

People in this episode

Host: Cole Napper

Guests: John Barry, Matt Maguire, Brandon Collins

Topics covered

• people analytics
• HR technology
• data-driven decision making
• workforce data
• compensation analytics

Keywords

• people analytics
• HRBench
• data
• HR decisions
• compensation analytics
• workforce data
• decision-making

Sponsors

HRBench

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HRBench, Salary.com, PayFactors

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