{"podcast":{"title":"Good Morning, HR","slug":"good-morning-hr-4101361","podcast_index_feed_id":4101361,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/good-morning-hr","website_url":"http://www.goodmorninghr.com","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/pq-xjs_ERB6E-puusatwJxe5rHen5KdjmdVbu7rZ5hk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81Yzc3/MTM3MzQ3ODczMzQ1/NDZjM2Q0MGQ3Mjc1/YWJiZC5wbmc.jpg","author":"Imperative – Bulletproof Background Screening","episode_count":265,"summary":"HR entrepreneur Mike Coffey, SPHR, SHRM-SCP engages business thought leaders about the strategic, psychological, legal, and practical implications of bringing people together to create value for shareholders, customers, and the community. As an HR consultant, mentor to first-stage businesses through EO’s Accelerator program, and owner of Imperative—Bulletproof Background Screening, Mike is passionate about helping other professionals improve how they recruit, select, and manage their people. Most thirty-minute episodes of Good Morning, HR will be eligible for half a recertification credit for both HRCI and SHRM-certified professionals. Mike is a member of Entrepreneurs Organization (EO) Fort Worth and active with the Texas Association of Business, the Fort Worth Chamber, and Texas SHRM.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T18:18:24.910755+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/good-morning-hr-4101361"},"episode":{"title":"HR News: As the Labor Market Heats Up, So Does RTO and AI Slop with July HR News: Jimmy Taylor","slug":"hr-news-as-the-labor-market-heats-up-so-does-rto-and-ai-slop-with-july-hr-news-jimmy-taylor","published_at":"2026-07-30T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/good-morning-hr-4101361/hr-news-as-the-labor-market-heats-up-so-does-rto-and-ai-slop-with-july-hr-news-jimmy-taylor","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/good-morning-hr-4101361","url":"https://goodmorninghr.com/episode-263-hr-news-as-the-labor-market-heats-up-so-does-rto-and-ai-slop-with-jimmy-taylor/","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/93c4551c/b141c502.mp3","summary":"In episode 263, Coffey talks with Jimmy Taylor about the state of return-to-office, AI's real impact on workforce participation and HR practice, and why proactive networking and skills-based hiring matter more than ever. They discuss CBRE data showing peak office utilization reaching 80% and the factors driving successful return-to-office adoption; the hidden financial costs employees bear when returning to the office and how employers should account for that in compensation and goodwill; why early-career professionals stand to benefit most from in-person work through mentorship, visibility, and relationship-building; June jobs report softness, a 50-year-low labor participation rate, and competing explanations from immigration enforcement changes and AI displacement; AI as a net job creator over time, drawing parallels to fears about the internet eliminating insurance agents, real estate agents, and recruiters in the 1990s; the organizational opportunity and challenge of assessing AI skill gaps and reskilling loyal existing employees rather than replacing them with outside talent; Gen Z's surprising gaps in desktop computing and interpersonal skills despite their reputation for tech fluency; the case for replacing traditional resumes with tailored application processes and front-end skills assessments to filter out AI-generated candidate slop; professional association involvement as a proactive career resilience and network-building strategy before a job loss forces it; and Dallas HR's hands-on AI skills day designed to move HR professionals from AI curiosity to practical daily application. For listeners of Good Morning HR podcast, use 2026-CoffeyGMHR-100 promo code and take $100 off a HRSouthwest full conference registration at https://hrsouthwest.com . For HR teams w…","meta_description":"In episode 263, Coffey talks with Jimmy Taylor about the state of return-to-office, AI's real impact on workforce participation and HR practice, and why p…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2843,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/good-morning-hr-4101361/episodes/hr-news-as-the-labor-market-heats-up-so-does-rto-and-ai-slop-with-july-hr-news-jimmy-taylor/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/good-morning-hr-4101361/hr-news-as-the-labor-market-heats-up-so-does-rto-and-ai-slop-with-july-hr-news-jimmy-taylor.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}