Friday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair

After a break, Henrike von Platen and Dr. Margret Vilborg Bjarnadóttir are back - drinking their coffee and chatting about how to reach fair pay fast. Having discussed pay gaps and their underlying causes, the two will move further and tackle the big questions of work after the COVID-19 pandemic. From compensation strategies for remote work, measuring the value of work, developments in working tim...

In episode 23, Margret explains the reasoning behind analyzing the value of work and presents a new tool developed by PayAnalytics that enables the assessment of the worth of jobs and the comparison of groups performing different jobs with similar value, thereby facilitating the identification of any job undervaluation.

Henrike is joined by a very special guest in a very special place: Vidir Ragnarsson from PayAnalytics - who is visiting Berlin. They discuss the very promising situation in Iceland. Pay gaps are going down and companies are increasingly willing to share their gaps. Vidir Ragnarsson's advice: Start with the data and measuring and go on from there. 

Margret is joined by has two guests: Rashmi Dixit and Kate Dixon, the partners and co-founders of Rakarising. Together they are on a mission to not only bring attention to oppressive pay practices, but to eradicate them. You can follow their work on rakarising.com.

Margret and Henrike are joined by Raafi-Karim Alidina, Consultant, Data & Product Lead at Included.

Margret and Henrike discuss this year's World at Work conference. One of the big topics at the conference is that many companies have great difficulties in finding new employees at all levels of qualification. In the U.S. in particular, companies are therefore looking at how to optimize reward packages and attract skilled workers. Because unlike in most European countries, US-American employee...

Margret and Henrike discuss what the real state of equality is for French women. What laws are in place? How is pay equity measured? Is everything as progressive as it looks from the outside? Or do some things seem better than they really are?  

Margret is the host of this episode and is joined by Katinka Brose from the Fair Pay Innovation Lab. They discuss a fair pay lawsuit filed by a German media maker who went to court against her employer in 2017. But what impact will this case have on jurisprudence in Germany, where fair pay lawsuits can be counted on two hands so far? To what extent is the type of contract decisive here, and how ca...

From increased employee satisfaction (and, in turn, motivation) to a dip in turnover and more control over compensation decisions, the benefits of paying fairly and transparently build upon one another. In this coffee talk, Henrike and Margret have a lightning round to answer your burning questions about the measurable positive outcomes of pay equity.

Margret and Henrike are joined by the Diversity & Inclusion expert, Stephen Frost, who is not only an old college friend of Margret’s, he was the first officer of inclusion at the London Olympics, founded the impact-led consultancy “Included” in 2012. Over coffee with Margrét and Henrike Stephen describes his remarkable journey: from a lobbyist for Diversity & Inclusion, wondering right fr...

Margret and Henrike discuss why companies always become unsure after the first attempt - because they are afraid of the results of the pay analysis. Often, they want to keep their fair pay efforts a secret at the beginning. But what exactly are they insecure about? And how can they be made less concerned about the analysis?

After a crazy week, Margrét and Henrike talk about a white paper that our amazing data addict from Iceland has been working on with her colleagues. The paper has the fantastic and promising title: There Are No Colourblind Models in a Colorful World . And it deals with such important questions as to how to apply AI successfully to HR, how it can change people’s lives, and how all our data reflect t...

Margret and Henrike discuss how the diversity in workforces is reflected in working time arrangements and what effects this has on fair pay. Working time and fair pay are interlinked, but how exactly? Especially overtime or shifts and related pay and allowances have an impact on the pay gap. But is this fair? And how does this affect pay gaps?

Margret and Henrike discuss benchmarking. But how is fair pay compared? Does a company benchmark itself to other companies, or should it measure success based on its own standards? How important is salary when "more money" isn't even the most important reason to change a job, but most employees rather care about their careers? What impact has Covid had on salaries?

Margret and Henrike are joined by the strategy and policy expert Katinka Brose working at FPI with Henrike, and discuss many insights into the latest developments in European legislation. They talk about the International Pay Transparency Conference, where experts from around the world discussed the latest developments last week - and agreed on one thing in particular: More sanctions are needed.

Margret and Henrike discuss the International Pay Transparency Conference that took place on July 28, 2021. Margret and Henrike talk about major insights of the conference, best practices, and successful corporate strategies to close pay gaps - and not letting them open up again.

Margret and Henrike discuss the International Fair Pay Conference, in which Margret will participate (via videocall) as an expert. The focus of the conference will be on the new EU directive on fair pay, which is intended to ensure greater transparency across Europe. But what does transparency actually mean?

Margret and Henrike discuss buying power, and the fact that so many women of minorities in post-Covid context are considering leaving their jobs in pay equity... But most of all, it's about the question: Why is transparency so essential on the path to equality?

Margret and Henrike discuss Sweden, where a completely different course was set in terms of equality back in the 1970s. Our two pay gap experts take this as an opportunity to make a bold leap into the future.

Margret and Henrike discuss the process needed to value activities for a non-discriminatory pay system. How can work be valued? What is the best way to measure the value of different activities? How can similar and equivalent activities be compared? And do these questions have to be answered perfectly from the start?

Margret and Henrike discuss the question of all questions: What is the actual cost of closing the pay gaps? They also try to understand an astonishing paradox - in the beginning people assume everything is fine within their organization, but at the same time they fear that closing the gaps could be terribly expensive. But is that actually true? How expensive is it really?

Italy, the country with the lowest participation of women in the labor market is finally making progress. In 2021, then-Prime Minister Draghi set ambitious goals for pay equity: The administration aimed to drive down the unadjusted pay gap from 17% to 10% by 2026. But how is Italy going to do it? And how will these changes impact employers?

Margret and Henrike continue their last week's discussion about job evaluation systems but this time focused on unions. They talk about the importance of aligning your job evaluation scheme to the pay structure/decisions.

Margret and Henrike discuss legislation changes in Spain in 2021.

We are pleased to introduce The Friday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair, a business discussion hosted by Margrét and Henrike. During this 8-minute chat, the two pay gap experts discuss topics related to the fast moving world of pay equity. In this preview episode, they introduce themselves and encourage listeners to tune in.