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Beyond the Paycheck brings you candid conversations with CHROs and top people leaders who are rethinking how compensation and benefits impact more than just employee bank accounts.
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Why your benefits might be built for an employee who doesn't exist (opens the original)
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Summary What happens when a people leader cuts the benefits that exist for show and hands the money to employees instead? In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey Willock Jones talks with Dennis Richter, Chief Business and People Officer at Fullscript, about the wellness fund that replaced Fullscript's vanity perks, why a benefit at 2% adoption is shelf wear rather than support, and how to win budget for moments that matter when the spreadsheet can't prove the return. Dennis also make
What 50% benefits renewals mean for your paycheck (opens the original)
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Summary What happens when benefits renewal costs rise 15% to 50% while wages rise 3%? In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey Willock Jones sits down with Chuck Heaton, Vice President of Human Resources and Chief Compliance Officer at Perma-Pipe, to talk about the "Armageddon year" brokers are warning about and whether it marks the beginning of the end of company-provided benefits. Drawing on more than 30 years in HR across textiles, retail, oil and gas, and manufacturing, Chuck shar
What a culture program did that a 10% raise for 100,000 workers couldn't (opens the original)
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Summary How do you make a case for people programs when the spreadsheet won't back you up? In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey Willock Jones talks with Kyle Taylor, Head of HR at Revature, about the one word definition of strategy he brings to every compensation conversation, the pendulum effect that quietly teaches employees to stop reading their own bonus plan, and what DHL funded that most companies only talk about. Taylor shares how DHL tied employee survey scores to every pe
The Game Boy rule: how DaBella teaches delayed gratification at work (opens the original)
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Summary Jeremy Stick, CHRO at DaBella, joins host Kelsey Willock Jones on Beyond the Paycheck to trace a line from his first paycheck, $2.35 an hour washing dishes in a junior high cafeteria, to the way he builds benefits education and development strategy for twenty six hundred employees across twenty eight states. The conversation covers why he trains people so they can leave and then treats them well enough to stay, how he uses regrettable turnover to make the financial case for people progra
Start With a Smile: Why Saving $2,000 on an Offer Costs You More (opens the original)
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Summary What if the most valuable benefit in your package is the one without a line item? In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey Willock Jones sits down with Robert Lazenby, Senior Director of Total Rewards at Hays, to explore why flexibility beats richer perks, why financial stress is a business issue disguised as a personal issue, and why the next decade of benefits belongs to healthcare savers rather than healthcare consumers. Bob shares his path from frontline sales to total rew
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