the WorkLife podcast
By connecting with thought-leaders, we bring you the latest workplace trends and innovation from around the world. Enjoy!
Episodes
October 15, 2021 • 41 mins
In this episode our guest is Steve Hatfield, principal with Deloitte Consulting and serves as the Global Leader for Future of Work for the firm. Steve has more than 20 years of experience advising global organizations on issues of strategy, innovation, organization, people, culture, and change. We discuss what impact the pandemic had on the world of work, how the nature of the employer-employee relationship is changing and what lea...
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September 6, 2021 • 49 mins
In this episode of the WorkLife HUB podcast, our guest is Kecia M. Thomas, Dean of the UAB College of Arts and Sciences, an internationally recognized expert in the psychology and workplace diversity realms. Tune in as we discuss diversity dynamics in the workplace, the career experiences of high potential women of colour, or the 'pet to threat' term, which Dr. Thomas famously coined.
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August 11, 2021 • 40 mins
The balance between work and private life is a challenge for so many and Dr. Scott Behson is making it his personal mission to help. On this show, we chat with Scott about his new book, The Whole-Person Workplace: Building Better Workplaces through Work-Life, Wellness, and Employee Support. If it's your goal to build a positive, fulfilling, high-performance work culture, then this conversation is for you!
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July 30, 2021 • 53 mins
How to have a focus on diversity and inclusion in engineering? Why embracing diversity is particularly important for the Schindler Group? Join our new podcast conversation as we discuss some of the fundamentals of the diversity and inclusion realm with Eric Howard Way, Global Head of Inclusion, Diversity and CSR at the Schindler Group.
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June 15, 2021 • 31 mins
For car-makers, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything. How did, Skoda Auto, the largest Czech car manufacturer, one of the world's oldest automotive brands, react to the crises and mobilised all its available resources to turn things around? In this episode, we chat with Andre Wehner, Skoda's Chief Digital Officer, who played a crucial role in driving the digital changes needed for his organization to successfully respond t...
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June 9, 2021 • 40 mins
In this episode, our guest, for the second time, is Ellen Ernst Kossek, an internationally recognized thought leader on employer support of work and family/personal life integration, gender and diversity. She is an academic, social scientist and Distinguished Professor of Management at the Purdue University. Among many we speak about the impact of the pandemic on the work-life realm, through what practices organizations supported t...
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April 12, 2021 • 38 mins
In this episode, our guest is Kristen Anderson, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for Barilla. We chat about how Barilla has introduced Smart Working, and how this prepared them for the lockdowns in Italy and elsewhere. Kristen also shares their work on diversity and inclusion and that Barilla has won a Catalyst Award in 2021 on Advancing Women in the Workplace.
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April 1, 2021 • 35 mins
Schools and kindergartens closing has been probably the biggest headaches for working parents throughout the pandemic. Many parents had to take paid or unpaid time off, use their parental leave and many women had to leave the labour market altogether. A handful of employers have really stepped up to help their employees. In this episode we hear from the remarkable Kristina Pressley, Human Resources manager at Orion Industries (US) ...
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March 16, 2021 • 32 mins
Join us for this podcast conversation with work sociologist, researcher, author, Tracy Brower. We tackle the work for her latest book on Happiness at Work, as well as what people are going through now in the pandemic. Tracy gives a lot of actionable tips and frameworks of improving our "work-life ecosystem".
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February 15, 2021 • 39 mins
In this episode, our guest is Stecy Yghemonos, Executive Director of Eurocarers. We discuss informal carers, who they are and what they do, how particularly vulnerable they are during the pandemic, and what employers and policy makers need to consider.
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February 2, 2021 • 36 mins
In this episode, our 2 distinguished guests are joining us from the Boston College Center for Work & Family, which is the leading university-based center in the US, focused on helping employers enhance the employee experience, increase employee productivity, and improve the quality of employee lives. Dr. Brad Harrington and Jennifer Sabatini Fraone are sharing with us what their corporate members have put in place to support workin...
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January 21, 2021 • 36 mins
Did you know that Hamburg tops the German traffic jam ranking with people spending up to 130 hours per year bumper-to-bumper? Our guest today is Burkhard Rönnefarth, Director of Coworking at Deutsche Bahn, Station & Service AG. Tune in as we discuss the future of train travels and train stations, and the signature coworking space of Deutsche Bahn, everyworks.
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January 11, 2021 • 37 mins
In this episode, our guest is Mona Malone, Chief Human Resources Officer and Head of People & Culture for BMO Financial Group. We discuss how BMO has enabled employees, who could, to shift to remote working, how they have trained managers and how BMO is able to maintain the culture of the organisation for the remote workforce.
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January 3, 2021 • 42 mins
On this episode, we talk to Madeleine Bunting about her latest book, Labours of Love: the Crisis of Care. We also touch upon what she had discovered in the process of the writing of this masterpiece - taking her over five years - and why we all need to revalue care and caring in the next years.
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December 9, 2020 • 49 mins
Is there a price for success? Are there win-win solutions for both employers and employees to achieve organisational success? These are some of the highly exciting issues we discuss today with our two guests, Giovanni Russo of Cedefop, and Gijs van Houten of Eurofound, who share with us the key findings of the fourth edition of the European Company Survey 2019: Workplace practices unlocking employee potential, jointly carried out b...
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December 5, 2020 • 26 mins
In this conversation, in which we are chatting with Giorgio Luigi Risso, we get a closer look at the activities of the Public Employment Service provider in the Piedmont Region in Italy, and why it can be important for such government organisations to focus more on work-life balance. This episode is recorded to promote the Equality for Work and Life EU project, financed by the European Commission.
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December 4, 2020 • 44 mins
Liz helps us understand why conflict happens in remote teams, and the best way managers can approach it. Tune in as we also touch upon the questions of self-management and emotional intelligence.
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November 9, 2020 • 37 mins
Teleworking is here to say - what it means for policy makers and enterprises? In this episode we chat with Jon C. Messenger, teleworking expert, Team Leader of the Working Conditions Group at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva. In the conversation, we touch upon ILO's recent publication 'Practical Guide on Teleworking during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond' and why Jon believes that teleworking is tomorrow's for...
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November 4, 2020 • 35 mins
In this episode of the WorkLife HUB podcast, we host Scott Anthony, Managing Director at Innosight. We touch upon the key insights from his most recent book Eat, Sleep, Innovate, and also discuss how the current COVID-19 crises will change industries and the new reality of work.
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September 29, 2020 • 37 mins
Join us as we are hosting Erin L. Kelly, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-author of the recently published book, Overload: How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do about It. Drawing on five years of research, including hundreds of interviews with employees and managers, Kelly - and Phyllis Moen, co-author - tells a story of a major exepriment that they helped ...
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