{"id":118786,"date":"2025-05-21T03:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T03:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/118786\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T03:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T03:46:08","slug":"%f0%9f%87%a8%f0%9f%87%a6-employment-heros-canadian-culture-shock-capital-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/118786\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 Employment Hero&#8217;s Canadian culture shock \u2014 Capital Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <b>Employment Hero<\/b> acquired Canadian HR platform Humi in January for $100 million, CEO <b>Ben Thompson<\/b> spoke about aligned values and a seamless integration. Four months on, that vision has collapsed under the weight of reality.<\/p>\n<p>The cultural fallout at Humi goes beyond typical post-acquisition turbulence \u2014 it offers a revealing window into Employment Hero\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalbrief.com\/article\/employment-heros-ambitious-vision-clashes-with-its-own-workplace-reality-031ba0fd-edaf-4b25-b13c-4b39430cbbe0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ongoing workplace challenges<\/a> and the company&#8217;s failure to address them.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1730774470.png\" x-bind:class=\"$store.authentication.state.isAuthenticated || (Boolean(context ==='articleInline')) ?&#10;    'w-14 h-14 sm:w-20 sm:h-20' :&#10;    'w-16 h-16 sm:w-20 sm:h-20'\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Get Sweat Equity in your inbox<\/p>\n<p>Signed up to Sweat Equity<\/p>\n<p>A weekly newsletter that tracks the pulse of startups, VC and tech.<\/p>\n<p>Update and view your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalbrief.com\/newsletters\/\" class=\"link-underline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> newsletter preferences<\/a> in your account.<\/p>\n<p>A weekly newsletter that tracks the pulse of startups, VC and tech.<\/p>\n<p>Update and view your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalbrief.com\/newsletters\/\" class=\"link-underline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> newsletter preferences<\/a> in your account.<\/p>\n<p>According to current and former employees, instead of addressing concerns, Thompson has continued to rally current staff to post five-star reviews on <b>Glassdoor<\/b>. These positive reviews often appear in clusters, follow a rough script, and typically end with caveats like \u201cit might not be for everyone\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Several current and former employees from both Employment Hero and Humi confirmed this practice is regularly discussed at all-hands meetings, where Thompson claims there are external forces trying to bring the company down because they view Employment Hero as a threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Employment Hero acquired Canadian HR platform Humi in January for $100 million, CEO Ben Thompson spoke about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[51,31837,53157,897,53158,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-118786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-employment-hero","10":"tag-enterprise-tech","11":"tag-jobs","12":"tag-sweat-equity","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114543773847830112","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}