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Toot or Boot — 54 episodes

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When Disengagement Is Really Self-Protection
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The ongoing trouble with SHRM
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The chaos inside modern hiring systems
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The High Cost of Being “Nice” at Work
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What authenticity at work really means
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The employees are not OK
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The CEOs are not OK
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What in the H-1B is going on?
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When Black Women Get Pushed Out of Work
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Moderna merges HR and IT, the price of office politics, and is sustainable scaling achievable?
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The cost of DEI rollbacks, the new employer-employee relationship , and the human cost of content moderation

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A hard job market for new college grads, the cost of declining employee wellbeing, a bold child care policy

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The workplace triple threat: Disengagement, RTOs, and Fake AI Applicants
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The path from CPO to COO, employee choice in RTOs, and job ads for narcissists?
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Target's DEI rollbacks hit their bottom line, LGBTQ discrimination on the rise, and quiet cracking

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Workplace Accessibility: How policy changes like RTOs disproportionately impact employees with disabilities

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Meta's "do not rehire" list, the decline of workplace friendships, and HR teams too stretched to action employee feedback

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Tokyo's 4-day workweek, resignation by proxy, and a low status desk
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April Fools - can we tell the real headlines from the fake?
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Live in Las Vegas at Transform
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Get on board or get out buyout tactics, sex discrimination and revenge quitting
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Ageism, career catfishing, and a 10-year low for US employee engagement
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JPMorgan CEO hates on remote work, Britain takes on flexible working, and work-life balance
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Meta lays off "low performers," AI's guardrails in Oz, and DOGE spyware
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What is burnout? And why is it so prevalent in HR?

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What 2025 holds for RTOs and why Americans may be accepting lower salaries

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Anticipated employment law changes, soft quitting, and the new deputy labor secretary

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HR preps for new administration, Apple pushes back on anti-DEI, and reverse discrimination lawsuits

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2025 HR Predictions: Toot-worthy or Boot-worthy?
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All things DEI with Vijay and Tara

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Candidates love-bombed and ghosted, the return of bro culture, and volunteering as a wellbeing program

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The Golden Toots and Coal-filled Boots of 2024
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Elon to X remote work, RTOs as retaliation, and what employees really value

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Managers' toxic positivity, the legacy of Steve Jobs' leadership style, and a 2025 quitting spree?
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Employee wellbeing and trust in leadership declines, and Meta fires staff over meal vouchers
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The Trouble with SHRM
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Polyworking, AI surveillance of workers, and why HR is getting tougher

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Workday wellness check, supercommutes, and Dell's last minute RTO

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Parental leave and the case of stolen valor

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The HR Leadership exodus, flat hierarchies and the 25-year high of EEOC disability discrimination charges

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Amazon's RTO, more tech layoffs, and the myth of in-office culture

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Gen Z's sick days, the meeting industrial complex, and centering employees

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Founder mode, right-to-disconnect, and social activism in orgs

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Messy in Texas - overtime laws, noncompetes and The Great Detachment

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DEI rollbacks and the politics of Silicon Valley VCs

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The gig economy, RTOs, and feedback - do they adversely impact women?

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Revenge of the HR Trends

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Is HR Miserable? And the death of summer Fridays
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A 6 day work week, the broken rung, and Citi's paid parental leave
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Is Gen Z hard to work with? And what are Gen Z and Gen X's retirements looking like?

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Do careers need a higher purpose? And what letting people get away with transforms your culture

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The rise of AI "workers" and MEI

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Mandatory vacation, mental health, and carewashing

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The SHRM keynote that wasn't, the happy hour job interview, and PIPs

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