381 Ben Thompson: The Future of Employment

02 Jun 2025 • 52 min • EN
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My guest this week is Ben Thompson – employment law expert, tech entrepreneur, and founder & CEO of Employment Hero, a global platform transforming how small and medium-sized businesses manage HR, payroll, and employee engagement. Ben began his career in employment law, witnessing firsthand the challenges businesses face in managing their workforce. This experience inspired him to create Employment Hero in 2014, aiming to simplify employment processes and make them more rewarding for everyone. Under Ben's leadership, Employment Hero has grown to support over 300,000 businesses and more than 2 million users worldwide, offering tools that streamline HR tasks, enhance compliance, and provide valuable employee benefits. In this episode, we delve into Ben's journey from legal practice to tech innovation, his insights on building a purpose-driven company, and how Employment Hero is shaping the future of work. 🔗 Explore more from Ben and his work: https://employmenthero.com/ Growing Your Business and Impact Talk to us today about how we can grow your capacity to level up your business and impact with our fully trained and managed outsourced marketing solutions - delivered by our digital heroes armed with good strategy, the latest tech and big smiles.  Learn more at humansofpurpose.com Promotional Partnerships Like what we are serving up on Humans of Purpose? Our promotional campaigns have delivered great marketing and sales outcomes and ROI for our partners to date.  Whether you're seeking a 1-month, 2-month or season sponsorship, follow the flow below to become a partner before we run out of our remaining promotional slots.  Click Here to learn more about collaborating on a custom campaign package. Ready to partner? Just complete this short Partner Enquiry Form and we'll be in touch. Gold Membership Want a premium listening experience that directly supports us to keep making the podcast?  Join current members Michael, Pravati, Noel, Kathy, Andrew 1, Andrew 2, Chris, Nikki, Margaret, Ben, Misha, Sarah and Geoff and enjoy our range of member benefits:  Premium dedicated podcast feed Removal of all three ads per episode Early access to all episodes Full transcripts of all episodes Brokered intros to all podcast guests Ask me anything page access To take up this great offer, just head to our Gold Member page today. CREDITS Music intro and outro on this podcast was written and performed by Keyo Rhodes, with Harrison McGregor on drums and percussion. Sound engineering and mastering by Lachlan McGregor.

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