Redefining Work Podcast

In this episode, I sit down with my friend Aubrey Blanche, Culture Amp’s Director of Equitable Design & Impact. Aubrey has been someone I look up to as a tireless champion of inclusive and equitable practices. In this episode, we discuss:

- How HR can become better antiracism advocates

- Culture Amp’s plans to become an anti-racist company

- How she’s teaching her parents about equity and racism

- Breaking down terms and definitions in her work

- Who inspires her work

- Much more

The "future of work" is now. The events of 2020 have propelled the field of HR forward and created an opportunity for a rethinking and resetting of how we design work practices that best serve all employees, our companies, and each other.

The role of HR has never been more important. To meet this moment we must work together to share ideas, practices, and what we’re learning. This resource is the result of a collaborative effort aimed at curating resources and tools to help businesses design and think about what’s next.

There’s no way to know exactly how, what, and when “work” will look differently on the other side of the pandemic. Our only certainty is that it won’t be the same. These resources aim to help educate and inspire those who are designing their future work strategies and structure, gauge how other companies are approaching this, and find resources to support their decision-making.

Like all open-source projects, this doc gets more useful with your contributions. You can view the open-source doc at: https://coda.io/@lars-schmidt/redefining-hr-for-the-post-covid-future-of-work.

In this episode, I sit down with Carrot Fertility Cofounder & CEO Tammy Sun to discuss fertility benefits and how Covid-19 has impacted HR’s views on supporting employees. In this episode you’ll learn:

Why Tammy founded Carrot Fertility

How Carrot partners with companies to provide fertility support

How has the pandemic impacted Carrot’s operations, and how it’s changed Tammy’s views on the people operations

How Covid has impacted how companies think about employee benefits?

How they’re thinking about building antiracist practices and a look inside their new program to allow U.S. members to select Black, Indigenous, or People of Color fertility providers.

How HR practitioners can make the case for investment in broadening their benefits

In this episode, Upwork SVP HR & Talent Innovation Zoe Harte and Lars bid adieu to the “future of work” and explore how Upwork has been leveraging their platform to built a hybrid workforce with on-demand talent.

Mark Levy is one of the pioneers of employee experience (EX). His background spans a range of industry-leading retail and technology companies including Best Buy, Levi Strauss, Gap, Technicolor, Airbnb, Allbirds, Peloton, and more. In this episode, Mark and I discuss the evolution of EX and why it’s more important than ever to take this approach and building people programs.

Welcome to the newly refreshed Redefining HR podcast. The podcast was renamed from 21st Century HR to align with my new book and better reflect the conversations and discussions. Each week, I'll sit down with CEO's, CHRO's and talent leaders building progressive people and talent programs.

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