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On episode 86 of The HR Famous Podcast, long-time HR leaders (and friends) Tim Sackett, Jessica Lee and Kris Dunn come together to discuss new Peloton users, Blink 182, how to multitask during in-person meetings, and Adam Grant’s future of work. 

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SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

1:45 - We have a new Peloton user! KD is now on Peloton and JLee picked his username. 

6:45 - Tim asked KD to make a meme with the “change my mind” format. He added the text “Michael Bolton should be at SHRM every year”. 

8:40 - JLee proudly notes that while Kim Kardashian has been staying in NYC, she’s been choosing to stay at a certain Marriott hotel (location undisclosed).

10:00 - This is now a Blink-182 podcast!

11:30 - JLee is stressed because of the impending return to office. She’s worried she can’t openly multitask during meetings. She asks her co-hosts for some advice. 

13:40 - Tim reminds us that people often had laptops open during in-person meetings and many of them were not just taking notes. 

18:30 - Recently, Adam Grant wrote an essay in the Wall Street Journal titled “ The Real Meaning of Freedom at Work”. He discusses the “great resignation” and notes that this is part of a longer shift in working trends that has been happening for a long time. 

22:00 - Tim notes that Adam Grant’s perspective on work is probably very different than most due to his job as a college professor at an elite university. 

25:15 - JLee discusses how the notion of “positive liberty” entails some privilege and that those within the service industry are most likely not able to exercise this liberty. 

28:45 - Everyone brings up individually how a lot of the population doesn’t want to have their own freedom in the workplace and just wants to be told what to do and how to do it.

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On episode 85 of The HR Famous Podcast, long-time HR leaders (and friends) Tim Sackett, Jessica Lee and Kris Dunn come together to discuss the differences between Big 10 and SEC football games, how many hours a week we work, and whether America is ready for a 4-day work week. 

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SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

2:00 - Tim recently visited KD in Alabama and went to an Auburn football game. He said it was very different from the Big 10 football games he’s accustomed to. 

6:00 - Tim is upset with KD because he didn’t prepare Tim with the right gear for an Auburn football game. Everyone wears polos and Tim didn’t have one to fit in with the other men. 

9:00 - The only person that Tim found that matched him was an elderly woman at a pizza restaurant…

12:00 - Tim found that the consumption of alcohol at an SEC game is about 50% less than a Big 10 game. He also found that the fans get to the games a lot earlier than at Big 10 schools. 

16:45 - Atlassian put out an article titled “This is how many hours you should really be working”. WHO found out that around the world that working 55 hours a week or more can put serious risk on your life. 

18:30 - JLee says she works about 55 hours a week. Tim doesn’t think she does and thinks she only works 40. 

23:00 - KD asks Tim how many hours a week he works. He says that he doesn’t really know. At first, he thought he would say 40 hours but he now thinks it might be a little bit more. 

26:00 - KD says on the flip side of “hustle porn”, there is “work-life balance porn”. 

27:45 - Tim asks the ultimate trigger question: “do you work more or less hours at home than when you worked in the office?”. JLee says she works more at-home for sure, since there are less distractions. KD says the opposite, but he’s been in a hybrid model for 10 years. 

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On episode 84 of The HR Famous Podcast, long-time HR leaders (and friends) Tim Sackett, Jessica Lee and Kris Dunn come together to discuss business travel during the pandemic, sending late night emails, and whether you should opt out of a group message. 

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SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

3:00 - KD asks Tim what his favorite OG from old-school rap is. He loves LL Cool J and JLee likes Dr. Dre because of his purple satin suit. 

5:15 - KD has been hitting business travel hard over the last few weeks. He has been in 4 different locations after not having much at all for the last year and a half. He has really started to notice the different mentalities to COVID precautions/mask wearing in different parts of the country. 

8:00 - KD was surprised by the strict mask mandates that were in place in Las Vegas when he and Tim were there for a conference. 

11:00 - JLee is happy that the housekeeper at the hotel that KD stayed at felt empowered enough to enforce mask mandate policy.

14:30 - On a Southwest flight recently, KD heard the initial reactions of Southwest employees to a vaccine mandate.

17:00 - Tim mentions how some airlines offered early retirement to pilots during the pandemic and are now begging pilots to come back to work. 

20:00 - KD wrote a post recently titled “Are you a jerk for sending an email at 9 pm?”. KD references a study where they looked at this and they found that receivers of late emails overestimated the quickness of response needed. 

23:00 - JLee thinks that people in their mid-career won’t care when emails are sent and more senior employees may be more careful with their messaging. 

25:30 - If the future of remote work offers more flexibility, Tim thinks that email send time doesn’t matter as much anymore (with caveats). 

28:45 - There are folks out there that are very anti-after hours emails. 

32:00 - Tim doesn’t understand the people that want to have their cake and eat it too. How are we going to be working flexibly and then also defining after hours?

37:30 - JLee thinks it’s a power move to opt out of group messages, like group texts or chain emails. KD thinks it’s better to opt out instead of not participating at all. 

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On episode 83 of The HR Famous Podcast, long-time HR leaders (and friends) Tim Sackett, Jessica Lee and Kris Dunn come together to discuss  Halloween at work, Zillow’s new remote comp approach, and JLee’s new job!

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SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

2:00 - Halloween is coming soon! JLee asks the crew if they’re dressing up for the holiday this year. 

4:15 - JLee wonders if she is forcing fun onto her friends, family, and co-workers by making them do fall/Halloween related activities. Tim says that people almost always have fun when they’re forced to partake in these types of activities. 

8:00 - How do you feel about group costumes? The crew goes back and forth on good group costumes. 

10:30 -  JLee saw a post on LinkedIn of an update from a CHRO at a major company. She reads the update to Tim and KD and then reveals that the company is Zillow. 

12:45 - KD is softening to the approach of not factoring in location when determining salary/pay. 

16:45 - JLee notes that certain brands have the privilege to exercise changes in pay and salary because people are willing to give something up to work for your brand. 

18:40 - Tim worries that the fact that companies are doubling down on not changing pay based on location will result in something bad happening years down the line. 

22:00 - JLee wonders if everyone is overreacting to these discussions and changes in company policies. She thinks some things will just go back to how they were and this might just blow over. 

24:00 - JLee praises KD for changing his opinion and having the ability to develop a new stance on something. 

25:00 - JLee got a promotion! She asks Tim and KD for some advice on her new job. 

28:00 - KD advises JLee to give patience to new people that she is now managing. He advises her to walk the line between being patient but also being decisive when the time comes. 

31:30 - Tim advises JLee to bring a third party, within the company, to lead transition meetings in order to give a voice to her new employees. 

36:30 - JLee asks Tim and KD how to manage new stresses with a new job at home when it comes to family. Tim says your time becomes more valuable and there are things you have to figure out that will make your life easier. 

39:00 - JLee mentions that her husband recently reached out about any extra support she needs now with a new job. KD and Tim are impressed. 

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On episode 82 of The HR Famous Podcast,  long-time HR leaders (and friends) Tim Sackett, Jessica Lee and Kris Dunn come together to discuss TikTok hiring, recruitment marketing on social media, and Gen Z job hopping. 

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SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

3:00 - Tim is a TikTok user and often sends them to his closest friends & family, including KD and JLee. JLee deleted the app so she only gets them from Tim now. 

5:00 - There is a new TikTok trend where someone asks a question like “tell me blank” and people respond to the original. The Amazon brand account created one where the question was “what was the best thing you ever got off of Amazon” and an employee responded and said “my career”. Tim thinks Amazon has a great TikTok employment branding presence. 

8:15 - KD thinks that social media recruiting only works on platforms that display company and job titles.

13:00 - JLee thinks that recruiters may get off the rails and try to improve their own personal brand. She thinks that a lot of recruitment marketing content is cheap and unoriginal. 

15:00 - Cameron, Tim’s son, recently shared a TikTok with Tim where a young worker was sharing the advice to job hop in order to increase salaries. 

16:00 - JLee thinks the only reason to job hop is to get different experiences and try new things. 

17:30 - KD says the concept of job hopping is not new but the advice is. He also thinks that 2 years is the perfect time for a young person to job hop. 

21:30 - Tim and JLee say that if you’re hopping laterally to several different jobs, there has to be a story behind it. 

24:30 - JLee worries that if you’re making progression in your career but you are hopping from company to company that you aren’t good enough to ever get promoted internally. 

26:00 - AppCast recently came out with data for companies that are struggling to get applicants. Some of their advice includes shortening your apply cycle and posting jobs at the start of the week and the end of the month.

29:00 - Tim says that only 1/10 TA leaders know where applicants are dropping off on their application process. 

32:00 - Another piece of advice is to include at least 2 specific benefits in the job posting. This improved application rates by at least 40%.

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On episode 81 of The HR Famous Podcast,  long-time HR leaders (and friends) Tim Sackett, Jessica Lee and Kris Dunn come together to discuss texting in the workplace, the Theranos trial, and the proposed paid leave bill.

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SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

2:40 - KD recently was on a run while on vacation in Florida and pulled out his phone and checked out the Zillow app while running - a normal KD trait.

4:30 - KD asks JLee to speak about an instance where she made a business mistake over texting. JLee mentions a co-worker who had a misspelling error. 

7:15 - Tim talks about how the “meeting after the meeting” is now happening during the meeting on Zoom. 

9:15 - How cognizant are you of your exclamation point usage in emails? JLee says she doesn’t limit herself like she once did. 

12:00 - KD mentions the book Bad Blood by Ramesh Balwani that is about Theranos and their blood testing. 

14:00 - KD reads text messages between Elizabeth Homes and Sunny Balwani that were uncovered by the prosecutors at the ongoing Theranos trial. 

19:00 - KD thinks that the prosecutor should have a running screen at the trial of the best text exchanges between Holmes and Balwani.

22:30 - JLee warns everyone that text messages can be discovered even if they are deleted. 

24:00 - The People Infrastructure Bill coming from the Biden administration has a lot of things that impact the workplace. KD brings up paid leave and the new policy. This policy includes paid leave for almost all workers that have earned wages in the last 6 months. 

26:00 - Tim’s initial reaction is torn because he wants to have the paid leave benefits for American people and families but he worries about the actual financial cost of these policies. 

29:00 - JLee mentions how it’s hard to manage paid leave in a multi-state work environment and how some of these policies could help ease those complications. 

31:00 - Tim says that HR pros may be the worst to talk about paid leave because they see all the people that take advantage of systems that are in place to help people. 

36:00 - KD reads the 9 states that currently have 9 paid leave laws. JLee says she’s surprised Maryland doesn’t have paid leave laws. Tim says that he’s surprised Vermont isn’t included and KD says Minnesota.

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On episode 80 of The HR Famous Podcast, long-time HR leaders (and friends) Tim Sackett and Kris Dunn come together to discuss hiring men to listen to you, generational wealth gaps and how money is dispersed generationally, and in-person HR conferences!

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SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

1:30 - Tim and KD are together recording live in Miami! They are seeing the Michigan State Spartans football team take on the Miami Hurricanes. 

2:30 - Tim found a new article that discusses a new phenomenon where Chinese women rent men to listen to them. 

7:30 - KD wonders what the training for these men is like. He thinks it might involve some body language training, non-verbal affirmations, and listening skills. 

10:30 - KD asks if a young Chinese man would rather go into an industrial career or this type of job. Tim notes that they want them to be college educated, pop-culturally savvy, amongst other qualifications. 

12:45 - Recently an economic study found that 30 year olds across time and generations don’t have any major change in wealth attained and acquired although, there has been a growing dissatisfaction with the wealth gap in the US amongst young people. 

15:15 - KD mentions that he doesn’t know a lot of Boomers that grew up with a lot of wealth or privilege and how our transition into a consumption society has tainted young people’s view of the world. 

17:30 - “Comparison is the thief of joy.” - Kris Dunn

21:40 - Tim recently went to SHRM annual and is headed to another SHRM conference with KD. Tim has noticed a small but vocal group on social media trying to stop people from going to these in-person conferences. 

24:50 - Tim thinks it’s brave of HR Tech to mandate vaccines for their in-person conferences since it’s alienating about 30% of the potential audience. KD thinks that it’s not brave because they were trying to maximize the biggest audience possible. 

28:30 - Tim noticed that there were a lot of extroverts at the SHRM conference and that they were very engaged.

31:40 - Catch Tim and KD at HR Tech from Sep 28 to Oct 1!

On episode 79 of The HR Famous Podcast, long-time HR leaders (and friends) Tim Sackett, Jessica Lee and Kris Dunn  come together to discuss the declining participation rate of males across colleges and universities in America.

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SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

3:00 - KD sent a note to JLee about women's workplace fashion coming out of COVID and learned a lot in the back and forth.

7:15 - What would you tell someone in 2021 who was sick of their job and wanted to quit?  Should they wait before they have another job and join what's been called "The Great Resignation", where people quit before having their next gig lined up. Is this a generational thing?

9:30 - JLee thinks that the ability to quit a job before getting another job has a privilege that many others don’t have. 

11:00 - Tim says it’s a proven fact that it’s easier to get a job when you have a job. He says don’t quit a job until you have the next. 

13:00 - KD mentions an article from the Wall Street Journal about the declining rate of men choosing to attend college.  College campuses are becoming a split 60/40 female to male.

15:00 - Tim says this is only an issue if we have a functional way to get men into trade skills careers and other similar types of jobs. KD thinks that pointing to alternatives to college as a reason for the drop is not the whole story.

19:30 - KD asks JLee if she can't fathom a world where men become a focus point for colleges and the companies they serve, or if she believes the world will be unwilling to do that.  She thinks both.

20:00 - JLee wonders if there is too much pride in this country to develop programs to build up and take care of young boys through programming. Kris discusses how cultural changes and resulting shifts on campus have created a mismatch between how young men view themselves from a masculinity perspective and their view of campus life.

24:30 - JLee notes that she thinks educational environments don’t often do a good job catering to a diverse set of students and that this could be part of the larger issue of men choosing not to attend college. 

26:45 - Tim thinks there are only 3 avenues for graduates from public schools and that a lot of students aren’t ready/aren’t a good fit for college.

31:45 - JLee says that a man cannot be the one that is the voice and the face of a male-centered campaign to help with this declining rate.  Tim points to the fact that a man trying to lead the cause would be seen as an uber conservative. KD wonders aloud why the topic of masculinity can only be viewed as negative and viewed in an extreme way when different versions of masculinity exists and all are not toxic.

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On episode 78 of The HR Famous Podcast, long-time HR leaders (and friends) Tim Sackett, Jessica Lee and Kris Dunn come together to discuss campus recruiting, how terminated employees can cause damage, and some of our favorite firing horror stories. 

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SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

1:30 - It’s conference season! Tim wonders if conferences will permanently have a virtual option now. 

5:45 - Tim asks if the team has had any experience recruiting new grads or soon-to-be college grads. Tim calls out Handshake for changing the campus recruiting process. He asks JLee how campus recruiting at Marriott works and what the frustrations are. 

8:45 - JLee mentions how a lot of career center employees are out of touch with the corporate world and simply rely on their relationships to help their students. 

11:15 - KD brings up John Nykolaiszyn from Florida International University (who was a guest on KD’s other pod Best Hire Ever) as an example of a campus career services leader doing it right. 

13:30 - Tim harps on career services for hiding their students instead of making them really available for employers.

16:45 - Tim says that CHRO’s want from universities and colleges is a LinkedIn for college students. They want some sort of database that is like LinkedIn that will allow them to search for new hires in their areas.

19:00 - Tim hired 2 new grads to his company and he had to reach out to career services directly in order to get on Handshake since he had a ”low trust score”. 

21:30 - MarketWatch recently released an article about an upset HR executive that deleted 17,000 resumes from their system after being fired. Tim asks the crew to share their best resignation/firing story. 

25:00 - KD tells a story about the termination of a blue collar employee at a former company he worked with and he had to restrain the terminated employee to help save a manager. 

27:30 - JLee’s story involves a fired employee and someone’s personal mini fridge and helping them remove it from their office. 

33:00 - Tim says that companies need to have their systems locked down when firing someone remotely or they can risk someone doing damage to their online systems and databases. 

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On episode 77 of The HR Famous Podcast, long-time HR leaders (and friends) Tim Sackett, Jessica Lee and Kris Dunn come together to discuss what back to school shopping looks like, Lululemon’s culture issues, and what a real entry-level job looks like. 

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SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

2:00 - Back to school season is here! Tim saw an article about a Delaware school district that is paying their student’s families to drive their kids to school because there is a bus driver shortage. 

6:00 - JLee’s son is obsessed with Nike Dry Fit but he doesn’t know the difference between Target and Nike because he can’t read. Target it is!

7:45 - Tim’s youngest son does not care at all what he wears so no new clothes for back to school!

10:00 - Some Lululemon employees have come forward recently and complained about a bullying environment in their workplace. Many employees get asked before they work if “they sweat today?”. 

16:00 - Tim thinks that this is a startup vs. a growth company issue. Startups will go to great lengths to find employees that match their culture but the more you grow, the more people will stray from that culture. 

19:15 - JLee wants her kids to live like she did with no brand names. Tim said his dad would pay for half of whatever brand name shoes he wanted in high school. 

21:30 - KD mentions that this is a lighter version of the same issue that faces Hooters when hiring since the brand revolves around people’s appearances. 

22:30 - JLee noticed a report on LinkedIn about the shrinking number of entry-level jobs and that now, entry-level jobs require years of experience.

26:00 - Tim says that a job is not an entry-level job when they require years of experience in the field of the job and he doesn’t like it when companies act like these jobs are truly entry-level. 

29:00 - Tim mentions Enterprise’s management training program and how everyone tried to replicate it because it was so successful. 

33:00 - KD likes a group or a cohort of new hires where they can experience it together and demonstrate a strong alumni base post-entry level position. 

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