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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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Not everything in HR needs a KPI, here's why... (opens the original)
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Summary Tarangita Gupta, global HR leader at Tenarai Inc, joins host Kelsey Willock Jones on Beyond the Paycheck to trace a line from her first paycheck, 6,000 rupees earned as the first working woman in her family, to the way she leads HR for a 6,000 person AI consulting firm today. She makes the case that not every people program needs a KPI, explains why 70 plus percent of employees never fully use the benefits they already have and how Tenarai's monthly vendor sessions fixed it, and describe
How Langan kept hybrid while its competitors pulled everyone back (opens the original)
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Summary In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey Willock Jones sits down with Donovan Mattole, CHRO at Langan Engineering & Environmental Services, a global firm of engineers, scientists, and archaeologists working in over 100 countries. Donovan explains why Langan pays straight-time overtime to every individual contributor, lets employees bank a week of it as comp time, and kept its hybrid schedule while competitors in the billable-hour consulting world pulled everyone back to the of
How NRG is Taking a Broader Approach to Employee Financial Well-Being (opens the original)
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Summary What do you do for employees when you can't out-pay inflation? In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey Willock Jones sits down with Gin Kirkland Kinney, Executive VP and Chief People Officer at NRG, to talk about building total rewards around the whole person at a 17,000-employee energy company. Gin shares why employees turn down roles that pay 5% more, how NRG reduces financial stress through a 401(k) participation campaign, preferred banking rates, and a hardship fund for e
Why Kraton Corporation continues to prioritize retirement readiness (opens the original)
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Summary What does it take to protect a benefit when every other line item is getting cut? In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey Willock Jones sits down with Morgan Pattison, Senior Director of HR Operational Excellence and interim CHRO at Kraton Corporation, to talk about the decisions that never show up cleanly on a spreadsheet. Morgan shares how she makes the case for benefits where the ROI may be difficult to measure, the renewal-season mistake she has watched play out more than
Two Simple Fixes That Finally Reached a Deskless Workforce (opens the original)
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Summary What keeps employees at a company when a competitive paycheck is just the starting point? In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey Willock Jones sits down with Corinna Carbone-Stephens, Chief People Officer at VLS Environmental Solutions, to unpack how a labor-intensive company with 52+ locations and a 73% hourly workforce supports the whole person. Corinna shares her journey from journalism in Italy's oil and gas industry to the C-suite in Houston, why VLS built its leadershi
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