Why Varex Imaging stopped treating HR as separate silos

Beyond the Paycheck · Oct 8, 2026 · 20m · transcript

Summary

Jay Hart, Global Head of Talent Management at Varex Imaging, joins host Kelsey Willock Jones on Beyond the Paycheck to make a case most HR leaders feel but rarely name: employees never experience HR the way HR is organized. Talent acquisition owns one piece, learning and development another, HR business partners a third, total rewards a fourth, and the employee only ever experiences one employment deal. He walks through a call center where turnover was high and the obvious answer was to pay more aggressively. The more his team listened, the clearer it became that people were not…