AI Saved Oyster’s HR Team 400+ Hours a Year — Here’s How

About this episode

Erin Goodey discusses how Oyster's HR team uses AI to improve efficiency and focus on human connection.

AI promises efficiency, but the real question is what teams do with the time they get back. In this conversation from Transform in Las Vegas, Oyster’s Erin Goodey joins David Rice to unpack how global HR teams are balancing automation with human connection—especially when managing distributed workforces across countries, compliance requirements, and sensitive employee situations. Erin shares how Oyster is using AI to eliminate repetitive administrative work, freeing HR teams to focus on the m...

People in this episode

Host: David Rice

Guest: Erin Goodey

Topics covered

• AI in HR
• automation
• human connection
• distributed workforces
• employee management

Keywords

• AI
• HR
• efficiency
• automation
• Oyster
• distributed workforces
• employee situations

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Oyster

Places: Las Vegas

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