David Murray

For the foreseeable future, I will be posting on LinkedIn only instead of here. Future posts from me can be found at linkedin.com/in/dimurray/

For consumer product designers, there are some learnings from Blizzard's Diablo 4 patch fiasco. Instead of penalizing existing behavior/skills, reward all alternatives instead. Positive reinforcement energizes, negative stifles. psychologyofgames.com/2010/03/framin… #productdesign #diablo4

We dogfooded our first-to-market AI-powered engagement survey auto-summarization tool for our own internal survey today. WOW. Hours of time saved and actually performed better than humans re: bias. Huge game changer. Sometimes AI hype is warranted! #hr #hrtech #engagement #ai

Months ago, there was a lot more nervous energy about giving organizations access to AI-powered features due to misinterpretation/misuse/bias. These days, awareness of what AI is good/bad at is much higher. With training, orgs can avoid these pitfalls. #hr #hrtech #ai #chatgpt

Having a system record of your continuous employee recognition which feeds into your performance review process is a great place to start! hrexecutive.com/3-ways-hr-lead… #hr #hrtech #performancemanagement

Discrimination and bias in the workplace is still top of mind for many of us, so I'm glad to see it continuing to be covered in the news. Every time one of us fights for what we think is right, others are empowered to do the same. usatoday.com/story/money/20… #dei #bias #leadership

If you object to a vaccine mandate for religious reasons, now employers are "required to grant an option such as remote work unless they can demonstrate that granting the accommodation would result in substantial increased costs to the business." goodwinlaw.com/en/insights/pu… #SCOTUS

3 years ago, it was legal to be fired for being gay in the U.S. As organizations have more and more power to not be equitable, it's going to be come apparent which organizations truly care about DEI and which do not. linkedin.com/news/story/sco… #dei #hr #affirmativeaction

I used to regularly share and encourage folks to "Bring your whole self to work" until a couple years ago when my cofounder and I had a meeting with the former head of DEI at (pre-Elon) Twitter. I now say, "Be inclusive" - here's why: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur… #dei #hr #hrtech

Fantastic job presenting at the SHRMLabs WorkplaceTech Accelerator Demo Day, @josh_io! The most exciting moment was hearing Joe Bast share starting on a Monday and having almost full perf completion by Saturday! #SHRMLabs #ElevatingHR #WorkplaceTechAccelerator #2023DemoDay

Join us June 22nd as our CEO @josh_io will be presenting at the SHRMLabs WorkplaceTech Accelerator Demo Day! Register here: shrm.co/DemoDay23 #SHRMLabs #ElevatingHR #WorkplaceTechAccelerator #2023DemoDay

If you want to know how to find the quiet contributors in your organization, check this out -- features Confirm and our approach: benefitspro.com/2023/06/15/for… #hr #hrtech #quietcontributors #performancemanagement

This hit home -- what's unfortunate is that if you do a standard performance cycle without giving people a way to share a brief, light perspective on the people around them, many managers are set up to do exactly this. linkedin.com/posts/abuljoba… #hr #hrtech #performancemanagement

This duck's name is Daphne and @josh_io brings her to all the tradeshows and she is always a hit! If you're at #shrm23 in Vegas and see Daphne, feel free to throw her some bread! (not really, haha) #hr #hrtech

For product/eng folks leveraging AI APIs like GPT, if you've encountered failures when passing large amounts of data with the GPT API, take a look at Claude -- in our tests, they handle much larger data, much faster, and they fail a lot less. #ai #chatgpt #anthropic #claude

Initiating uncomfortable conversations is a critical skill for managers. "The path of least resistance is avoidance, and to minimize confrontation, many managers give 'meets expectations' scores to underachievers or workers with poor behavioral records." shrm.org/ResourcesAndTo…

So many of us don't take enough vacation, but when we do, we aren't sure whether to have a few long ones, or several short ones. Research shows that less important than the duration of the vacation is that you have one that you really enjoy: link.springer.com/article/10.100… #vacation

I just got back from vacation, what wonderful news to come back to! Congrats to the whole Confirm team for this awesome award! #hr #hrtech #hrtechawards #performancemanagement #perf

From the SHRM Blog: Fixing Performance Reviews, for Good - blog.shrm.org/blog/fixing-pe…

SHRM's #WorkplaceTech Spotlight presented by #SHRMLabs - Josh and I cover why performance management is broken and how to fix it. Check it out! youtube.com/live/5-sYa0GUt…