On episode 70 of The HR Famous Podcast, long-time HR leaders (and friends) Tim Sackett, Jessica Lee and Kris Dunn come together to discuss the 2021 Summer Olympics, the concept of collective time off and entire companies shutting down, and the lack of women returning to the workforce. 

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SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

2:30 - The Olympics are here! Tim’s wife is Olympic obsessed and watches anything and everything.

4:00 - KD’s favorite Olympic sports are men’s basketball and the decathlon. He loves seeing some bigger dudes struggling with the run at the very end. Tim is a swimming and track & field fan. 

6:45 - JLee is more of a winter Olympic fan but she loves watching archery during the summer. She loves watching the Koreans kick butt in archery at the Olympics. 

9:00 - To help combat burnout, companies have started to implement the concept of “collective time off”, where the entire company shuts down. Bumble recently decided to give their entire staff a week off at the same time. 

11:00 - KD is skeptical of the concept - calling it Privilege - since a lot of companies cannot afford to let all of their employees take off a day like that. 

14:00 - JLee mentions that at her company, Marriott, they cannot afford to give every employee time off since they are a 24/7 operation and that opens them up to controversy and criticism. 

17:20 - JLee asks Tim if this can be used as a recruiting tactic. When he was working at Applebee’s, he found himself working an HR job on Black Friday even though there was nothing to do. Then, they got a new CEO that changed the mindset to not treat everyone the same. 

22:45 - There has been some more data released recently about women in the workforce. JLee mentions how it might not be an option for some women to return to the workforce now. Tim recently found a data point that said there are 2 million people that still have not returned to the workforce. 

27:45 - KD thinks this isn’t an issue that HR can fix on their own. It can be a lot of work but it can be very worthwhile since it’s one of the biggest untapped segments out there.

30:00 - JLee remembers seeing two moms that jobshared and thinking how progressive and seamless it was. 

32:00 - Tim mentions how his brother-in-law is a teacher and only took home $10-15k a year after paying for childcare. 

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