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The most famous entrepreneur in India just called for corporate leaders to have the country’s youngsters work 70-hour work weeks.

Meanwhile, Harvard economic historian Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel economics prize for her work on gender pay gap reigniting conversation on the gender divide and experts say the ‘great gloom’ is upon us.

October has been quite the month for the world of work. Join Ankita, who's fighting an incoming head cold and sniffles, as she chats with (ahem) her new co-host. Did we mention that HR Bandit version 2.0 is in making?

Tune in to find out the latest from the world of work AND a sneak peak into what to expect for Season 2.

All views expressed are that of the speakers and are not the positions, strategies, or opinions of the organizations they are associated with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES8ZNSTswrs

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2023/press-release/

https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2023/10/popular-economicsciencesprize2023.pdf

https://www.bamboohr.com/resources/guides/employee-happiness-h1-2023

https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/why-overworked-south-korea-is-adding-more-hours-to-its-work-week-12251252.html

This episode we are switching things up.

Those who’ve known me for a while, are well aware of my scepticism of psychometric tests. Placing them in the same bucket as tarot and palm reading, I enjoy taking them but never believe them. 

Join me on our 24th episode as I chat to Melvyn and Maya – two fellow HR professionals who make a living off psychometric tests as they work to convert me into a believer. Do they succeed? Tune in to find out.

Independent reviews of psychometric assessments:

 https://explore.bps.org.uk/test-reviews

 https://buros.org/test-reviews-information

Get in touch with Melvyn at:

 https://www.advancedpeoplestrategies.co.uk/

 [email protected]

July arrived and how! Amidst more research reports being released, Uber, Doordash and other food delivery companies are threatening or already suing over the new NYC minimum wage law. Meanwhile, middle management continues to be squeezed between top down directive and employee backlash.

Join Ankita and Benvon O’Grady as they discuss Coursera’s Global Skills Report, the NYC law, B-suite problems, Meta’s threads, Barbie vs Oppenheimer and more.

All views expressed are that of the speakers and are not the positions, strategies, or opinions of the organizations they are associated with.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90919815/food-delivery-companies-sue-new-york-city-over-minimum-wage-law

https://www.fastcompany.com/90908655/new-york-city-introduces-new-minimum-pay-rate-for-food-delivery-workers

https://www.fastcompany.com/90918946/theyre-the-mvps-in-your-workforce-heres-how-to-take-care-of-your-middle-managers

http://thehrbpstory.com/2023/07/25/shopifys-meeting-cost-calculator/ 

Almost halfway through the year and our best mix yet! The Work Trends report for 2023 is out. Work continues to get a bad rap despite workers being happier at work than ever before. And it would be a sin to record an episode during Pride month and not talk about how to be a good ally. Join Ankita as she chats with Kevin Empey about top picks from this year's report, Work's PR problem, allyship and mid-year goals.

https://pulse.microsoft.com/en-ie/work-productivity-en-ie/na/fa2-microsoft-ireland-work-trend-index-2023/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/will-ai-fix-work#3x3IeuDhWS6pHHJSoWVkOA

https://www.wsj.com/articles/workers-job-satisfaction-survey-c42addba

https://hbr.org/2020/11/be-a-better-ally 

May is always our favorite month of the year. On our second birthday, join Ankita as she chats with Marc Effron about the economics of marriage, why a revamp of an existing people analytics tool is still exciting and if kindness is a topic worth discussing.

And don’t forget to say hello - drop Ankita a tweet, message her on LinkedIn or email us at [email protected]. Let us know what you’ve enjoyed best so far and what you’d like to see in the year ahead.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2023/04/13/in-a-growing-share-of-u-s-marriages-husbands-and-wives-earn-about-the-same/

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/effron_every-april-1-the-talent-strategy-group-activity-7047538016394878976-9pXp/

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/21/why-youtube-ceo-susan-wojcicki-and-other-powerful-women-keep-quitting.html

https://www.hrdconnect.com/casestudy/disco-fever-spotifys-analytics-platform-takes-hr-from-administrative-to-strategic/

https://hbr.org/2021/05/dont-underestimate-the-power-of-kindness-at-work

https://www.ted.com/talks/james_rhee_the_value_of_kindness_at_work?language=en

Marc’s LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/effron/
Ankita’s Twitter: @ankitapoddar
Ankita’s LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankitapoddar/ 

The world of work continues to be an exciting place as the European Parliament passes new legislation to boost pay transparency. Not only will job postings have payment information, employees too now have the right to ask for compensation information. 

Meanwhile, Deloitte’s Human Capital Trends 2023 continues to dominate conversations despite having been released over three months ago. 

Finally, the end of March saw famous experts and some non-experts calling for a halt in the training of the most powerful AI systems for at least six months, citing “profound risks to society and humanity.”

Join Ankita as she chats with Jim on all of these topics while making plans for the pod’s second birthday that’s coming up soon.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230327IPR78545/gender-pay-gap-parliament-adopts-new-rules-on-binding-pay-transparency-measures

https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/focus/human-capital-trends.html#elevating-the-focus

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/29/elon-musk-joins-call-for-pause-in-creation-of-giant-ai-digital-minds

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/31/ai-research-pause-elon-musk-chatgpt

Almost one-fourth of the current trip around the sun in and the world of work hasn’t failed to stir things up. With the results of the biggest 4-day workweek experiment now out, it must be talked about (again). 

Nintendo meanwhile is playing the infinite game. Holding true to what CEO Satoru Iwata said 10 years ago, here’s a lesson for all the other tech firms. 

And for our last topic, Adobe’s blue, green and orange coded offices. What will we see next in our office spaces? 

Join Niyati Goel & Ankita as they talk about all things work, a little bit about free products and what they don’t like about office spaces.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90855318/4-day-work-week-alternative,

https://apnews.com/article/business-d114ef8be69e1665fd22c39515bdaecf https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/02/21/four-day-work-week-results-uk/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/business/four-day-workweek-study.html  

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/four-day-week-future-flexible-work-johnny-campbell/

https://www.fastcompany.com/90861183/adobe-designed-its-new-color-coded-office-tower-with-neuroscience

Is 2023, going to be the year where we see some calm, or is it more of the same? 
What do we expect to see in the world of work and what should we be prepared for?

Join Ankita and Krish Shankar as they take a quick look at the year gone by and make predictions for the year ahead.

https://www.amazon.in/CATALYSE-POWER-YOUR-PEOPLE-ECOSYSTEM/dp/9355201168

https://thehrbpstory.com/2022/01/14/trauma-informed-workspace/

Krish’s LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/krish-shankar-36666a12
Krish’s Twitter: @kshankar21

Ankita’s Twitter: @ankitapoddar
Ankita’s LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankitapoddar/
Ankita’s blog: https://thehrbpstory.com/

To say 2022 has been an eventful year would be an understatement. While many touted this to be the year when we’d finally see some calm and stability, the year clearly thought otherwise. 

Join Ankita and SV Nathan as they reflect on the year gone and share their top observations from 2022. A healthy, dose of optimism, childlike wonder, and the perfect definition of what next year would look like – this episode has it all. 

Tune in as we prepare ourselves to dive into 'the hangover year'.

Nathan’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathansv/

Nathan’s Twitter: @Nathansv

Nathan’s Book:  https://harpercollins.co.in/product/the-heart-of-work/

Ankita’s Twitter: @ankitapoddar

Ankita’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankitapoddar/

The word of the season: Macroeconomics! Be it in the emails sent to employees by Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk, or in financial reports; macroeconomics is no longer a topic that can be ignored. 
The current time has everyone wishing they’d taken their econ classes a little more seriously.

Join Ankita as she and Neil Morrison, Director HR with Severn Trent, UK share their top two macroeconomic factors that they believe are impacting the current world of work and will continue to do so in the year ahead. Inflation, cost of living, skill shortage, sustainability, and exchange rate volatility, this 30-minute episode has it all.

Neil’s LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/morrisonneil/
Ankita’s Twitter: @ankitapoddar
Ankita’s LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankitapoddar/
https://about.fb.com/news/2022/11/mark-zuckerberg-layoff-message-to-employees/
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/10/read-elon-musks-first-email-to-all-twitter-employees.html
https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/economic-conditions-outlook-2022
https://www.ey.com/en_us/strategy/macroeconomics/macroeconomic-outlook-october-2022
https://www.ey.com/en_gl/ceo/ceo-outlook-global-report
https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2022/10/11/world-economic-outlook-october-2022
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/COP27-Reignites-The-Debate-About-Carbon-Credits.html