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What makes a company irresistible? That's the question behind Josh Bersin's most recent book, " Irresistible: The 7 Secrets to the World's Most Enduring, Employee Focused Organizations ." And what it comes down to is a focus on their employees. At a time when some companies are rolling back recent improvements to the employee experience, Bersin joins Get Reworked to explain why an investment in em...

Between 10% and 20% of the world's population is considered neurodivergent, according to  Deloitte . Yet companies still default to one-size-fits-all approaches to management, which rarely suits anyone. In this episode of Get Reworked, John Abel, technical director, office of the CTO at Google Cloud discusses what businesses can do to support and help neurodivergent employees flourish — from reduc...

Although employee experience is a relatively new term, the concept behind it isn't: support your employees to do their best work and they will support your business in turn. In this episode of  Get Reworked ,  World Wide Technology's  executive vice president of global human resources, Ann Marr shares lessons learned delivering award-winning employee experiences over her 25-year career with the co...

Back to office advocates have used corporate culture as an argument for why employees need to return to a central location. But corporate culture isn't defined by a physical place. Ideally, it's a combination of behaviors, practices and processes. In this episode of Get Reworked, Udemy chief learning officer Melissa Daimler discusses what an intentional approach to building culture looks like and...

At a time when the number of available workplace tools is exploding, how can a company meet employee demands for technology while not overwhelming them with choice? In this episode of Get Reworked , Tope Sadiku, global head of digital employee experience at The Kraft Heinz Company discusses how she takes a human-centric approach to delivering personalized digital experiences to the multinational f...

How can a company communicate with employees who are distributed across multiple locations, roles and time zones? More importantly, how can companies ensure these communications are two-way and not a top down broadcast? In this episode of  Get Reworked , Maren Waggoner, VP of People, End-to-End Operations, U.S. at Walmart gives us an inside look at how the company communicates with — and hears fro...

Our workplaces hit a milestone in recent years: it was the first time on record that five generations shared the workplace. While there's been no shortage of articles on the needs and desires of individual generations, not much has been paid to the benefits the mix of generations produces — both for individuals and organizations.  In this episode of  Get Reworked , Ramsey Alwin, president and CEO...

Diversity efforts typically fall under HR's remit, and for good reason. But talking about people and culture will only take a company so far. To move the needle on DEI efforts, organizations need to follow the money. In this episode of  Get Reworked , Eloiza Domingo, Allstate's VP, Chief Inclusive Diversity & Equity Officer, Human Resources explains how the American insurance mainstay incorporates...

What causes burnout? So often, conversations around burnout center on the effect — the burnout itself — rather than the cause. It is only when the conversation focuses on the chronic job stressors at the root of burnout, can organizations begin to tackle the problem.  Because at its root, burnout is an indication of a misalignment between people and their jobs. By identifying where these misalignm...

The ongoing debate between return to office or work from home misses the point. The question isn't where we work, but how. Over the last two and a half years white collar workers have taken part in a grand experiment which upended many of the long-held norms of the workday. Business leaders now have the choice of what to do next: embrace this new way of work or try to return to how things were in...

How do you stay positive in the middle of a tragedy? It's a question that became all too real for our next guest, who found himself at the scene of the mass shooting at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Ill. that left seven people dead and scores wounded. In this episode of  Get Reworked , Howard Prager, executive coach and author of " Make Someone's Day " shares how times of trouble ar...

The word friction typically carries negative connotations, seen as an abrasive or discordant force. Yet the right kind of friction can also inspire feelings of belonging, engagement and meaning. In this episode of  Get Reworked , we talk to Soon Yu,  author and international speaker , about how introducing good friction in your workplace can inspire employees to do more, give them a greater sense...

Mention LEGO and most people will immediately picture building and playing with the company's famous multicolored bricks. But there's another whole level of design that goes into building an office where employees can't wait to come to work. In this episode of Get Reworked, we talk to Tim Ahrensbach, head of workplace experience at The LEGO Group, about how the Danish company completely redesigned...

Human resources has come a long way since its days as the personnel department. Yet tensions remain between organizations that view HR as a strategic partner and those that still see HR people as paper pushers and party planners. In this episode of  Get Reworked , we talk to Dr. Marie Harper, Dean, Dr. Wallace E. Boston School of Business,  American Public University System . Marie's professional...

In any ecosystem, it's the balance that is important. Too much of one thing can lead to negative consequences for the whole. It's a concept that carries through to the digital workplace. In this episode of  Get Reworked , we talk to Aaron Kim, senior director and head, digital workplace solutions, at Toronto-based  Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). When it comes to the tools for a digital workplace, it'...

There's no single recipe when it comes to internal communications. But one thing that's consistent is the importance of employee feedback.   In this episode of  Get Reworked , we talk to Judy Whitcomb, senior vice president of organizational strategy and effectiveness at Vi, a Chicago-based operator of luxury senior living communities across the US. Throughout her career, she's worked in HR, learn...

For many companies, remote work was just a stopgap measure to address a temporary disruption to business as usual. For others, it's a way of life.  In this episode of  Get Reworked , we talk to Betsy Bula, all-remote evangelist at GitLab , about how and why her company came to embrace all remote all the time, and what others can learn from their example. GitLab has collected the lessons learned in...

For many people, talking about pay is one of the most difficult conversations they have at work. One reason is that it's so tightly tied up into their perceptions of their own self worth and value.  In this episode of  Get Reworked , we talk to David Turetsky, vice president of consulting at Salary.com and host of the HR Data Labs podcast, about pay transparency and why companies should be more op...

A craft circle may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about how to bring a dispersed workforce scattered across the globe together. But it might just be the answer you're seeking for the complex management challenges facing today's organizations. In this episode of  Get Reworked , we talk to Molly Anglin, community manager at  Valtech , and the firm's former chief strategy of...

The reason why employees decide to quit is often not very complicated. But that doesn't mean the solutions are easy, particularly as the Great Resignation has legions of workers looking for the door. And with more and more companies heading back into the office, nearly every corporate decision is under a microscope. In this episode of  Get Reworked , we talk to  Beverly Kaye , career expert and au...

In many ways, the leaders organizations need today are exactly the ones they're most likely to overlook. In this episode of  Get Reworked , we talk to  Jennifer Kahnweiler , leadership expert and author "The Introverted Leader," about the strengths that introverts bring to the workplace and how organizations can tap into them during this particular moment at work. What's needed is a closer look at...

The future of the metaverse may be the topic of the day for many tech pundits, but the reality is that it's already here. The virtual reality, that is. In this episode of  Get Reworked , we talk to Derek Belch, CEO of virtual reality firm Strivr , about how VR is being used to train employees right now and what potential it holds for the future. We've entered a new era of VR technology, he said, a...

The current moment is a powerful opportunity to reshape and remake work. But getting it right is both relatively straightforward and fiendishly complex.  In this episode of  Get Reworked , we talk to Alan Pelz-Sharpe, information management expert and founder of advisory firm  Deep Analysis about the road ahead. Organizations are poised to make giant leaps forward, he says, with powerful and usefu...

Many organizations have been serious about diversity and inclusion work for decades, so why has so little progress been made? In this episode of  Get Reworked , we talk to Cynthia Owyoung, vice president of inclusion, equity and belonging at  Robinhood  and author of the new book " All Are Welcome: How to Build a Real Workplace Culture of Inclusion That Delivers Results. " Cynthia shares insights...

Could your TV be the answer to the challenges of the Great Resignation? It just might be, in part at least. In this episode of  Get Reworked , we talk to Meredith Sadoulet, vice president of talent, strategy and experience at Comcast, about the story behind the development of Xfinity X1 Career Center, a job search destination launched on the Philadelphia-based company's cable platform in 2021. Mer...