HRchat Podcast The HR Gazette

In this episode, we talk about the cost of living and about the moral and business case for employers to embed living wage initiatives in their HR strategies.

Bill Banham's guest today is Gail Irvine, Head of Business Development and Policy at the Living Wage Foundation

Gail joined the Living Wage Foundation in October 2022 and is responsible for driving forward new projects that maximize voluntary employer approaches to tackle in-work poverty and promote good work.

Previously, Gail was Living Wage Scotland Manager at the Poverty Alliance, the franchise partner delivering Living Wage accreditation in Scotland. Gail spent five years as a Senior Policy and Development Officer at Carnegie UK, a UK charitable foundation, where she led the delivery of their ‘Fulfilling Work’ program, focusing on policy and employer interventions required to make work better.

Questions for Gail include:
Talk to us about the increase in the cost of living over the past couple of yearsTell us about the mission of the Living Wage FoundationIn 60 seconds, give an overview of the 'real living wage', plus other newer initiatives - Living Hours and Living Pensions.What percentage of UK employees exist below the real living wage?Don’t businesses need flexibility from their workforce? Don’t some people like working flexibly?What has been the impact of the Living Wage campaign – on workers, influencing government policy etc?

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In HRchat episode 702, we consider colleagues who double up as caregivers and ways we can support them.
Joseph Fuller's research suggested that 73% of employees are currently juggling caregiving responsibilities in some capacity. However, due to a lack of tracking by employers, the necessary support infrastructure for caregivers is often not available. The result? Each family is left to build its caregiving support system from scratch. 
This inefficiency and sense of isolation result in massive losses of around $35 billion annually for U.S. businesses due to the failure to adequately support and retain these vital workers! 
Bill Banham's guest this time is Lisa Leighton, Vice President of Strategic Development at Cariloop
Lisa leads new business acquisition and growth strategy, working with employers and partners to extend Cariloop's reach to more employees and their families. She joined the company with more than 20 years in the employee experience industry, partnering with Fortune 500 companies to create HR and Benefits programs and experiences designed to drive attraction and retention.
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In this HRchat, we talk about the impact of AI on the HR function, the evolution of employee engagement, UNLEASH, and a whole bunch more.

Bill Banham's returning guest is Mervyn Dinnen a talent analyst, advising recruitment and HR technology businesses on the emerging trends impacting hiring, retention, and engagement. He is a writer and international speaker on recruitment and HR trends and an award-winning recruitment blogger. Before this, he spent 20 years as a recruitment and HR practitioner.

Mervyn is a top HR influencer and the author of Exceptional Talent: How to Attract, Acquire and Retain the Very Best Employees and the upcoming book, Digital Talent. He's also the host of the popular HR Means Business podcast.
Questions for Mervyn include:
We met up at UNLEASH in Paris back in October. What is it about UNLEASH that you think is unique? You recently gave a presentation entitled ‘Is Retention the New Recruitment?’ What were the main points you were making?How do you see employee engagement evolving? What are your predictions for the next few years?You’ve written about the need for organizations to adopt a Total Talent Thinking approach - what do you mean by this?Do you think the increasing usage of AI within HR will lead to a form of 'humanless human resources'?How much of the HR function can be replaced? What can't be augmented/replaced?

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Today is Eclipse Day in North America AND we've hit HRchat episode 700!!!

To help us celebrate the double whammy and look ahead to DisruptHR Buffalo on Thursday is Dr. Kristy F. Tyson, President-Elect of ATD Buffalo Niagara Chapter - a region that'll enjoy the full eclipse later today.

Tune in to learn about ways ATD is helping the business community. Listen too, to get the lowdown on what to expect at DisruptHR Buffalo
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In this episode of the HRchat Podcast, new DisruptHR Buffalo co-organizers Bill Banham and Chris Bjorling preview the relaunch event happening on April 11 plus they discuss their hopes for the ATD Conference and Expo in New Orleans in May. 

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In this HRchat episode, we consider what it takes to achieve happiness at work. Tune in as we also share ways to better measure employee engagement.

Our guest this time is Nic Marks, CEO and Founder of Friday Pulse. Nic was once described as a “Statistician with a Soul” because of his unusual combination of ‘hard’ statistical skills and ‘soft’ people skills, he draws on scientific evidence to show that everyone benefits when businesses take happiness seriously.

In 2018, Nic founded Friday Pulse an innovative tech business based in London to be the catalyst in changing the world of work for the better.

Nic was recently a speaker at Disrupt London 19.0. Check out the latest London chapter 5-minute lightning talks here.

Questions for Nic include:
What does happiness at work mean to you?How did you get into measuring happiness? Can one measure happiness?Can employees 'game' a happiness test? After all, many employees wouldn't want low engagement scores.What incentivizes employees and does that differ between generations/industries? Why does happiness at work matter?What are the big drivers of team happiness?If teams are happy, will they get complacent? Won’t they just slack off?You have a free happiness at work test at fridayone.com. Tell me moreMore About Nic

Nic has been an advisor to the UK Government Office for Science on the Wellbeing Foresight Programme and has written over 20 publications. In 2010 Nic was invited to speak at the prestigious TED global conference. His TED talk has now been watched well over two million times, and he authored one of the original three TEDbooks, entitled ‘A Happiness Manifesto’. Nic was named as one of the Top Ten Original Thinkers by the UK’s Institute of Directors magazine and his work was listed as one of Forbes Magazine’s Seven Most Powerful Ideas in 2011.

Nic founded Friday Pulse in 2018 - a weekly science-led pulse that provides leaders with actionable data on their teams' happiness, and is currently writing a book on why happiness is a serious business.


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