Where does the Equal Pay Gap come from? Are there any patterns? Like with all good questions, it depends!

Not all companies have the same motivations for closing their equal pay gaps. In this week’s Coffee Talk, Margret speaks with PayAnalytics co-founder David Anderson about the two major types of motivation and how they influence companies’ decision-making. This short discussion is based on David’s recent presentation at the WorldatWork pay equity forum in Austin, Texas.

In this week’s Coffee Talk, Margrét comes to us from a hotel atrium in Austin, Texas with highlights from the WorldatWork Workplace Equity Forum.

In this week’s Coffee Talk, Margrét is joined by Rena Nigam, the CEO and founder of Meytier. an AI-enabled, diversity-focused job platform that aims to make hiring more equitable, with a focus on gender diversity. Here are some highlights from Margrét and Rena’s conversation.

The topic of this episode is Geographic Pay Policies. What is changing? Should there be geographical pay differences? Has the pandemic changed this?

Margret and Henrike discuss how to prepare comply with requirements from new pay transparency legislation across the globe. For example, how to define salary ranges?

In this episode 28 of Coffee Talk, Margrét speaks with Karen Holtzblatt who has studied how to retain women in tech for decades.

Margret and Henrike talk about the binding pay-transparency measures in the new EU directive: 2021/0050(COD) Equal pay for equal work between men and women (pay transparency and enforcement mechanisms), and the MEPs back binding these measures. This directive is likely to have a big impact on organizations and companies.

Margret and Henrike discuss the exciting question of whether the opportunity to work in a home office, which is increasingly offered and used due to the pandemic, is actually a good or a bad thing - and have very different opinions and lots of food for thought.

Margret and Henrike chat about time and money over their coffees. And breaking time and money in work and compensation practices questions the underlying assumptions that have guided paid employment for so long.