On episode 58 of The HR Famous Podcast, long-time HR leaders (and friends) Tim Sackett, Kris Dunn and Jessica Lee come together to discuss what happens when HR pros get harassed in the workplace. JLee shares her story of being harassed at work as an HR pro, the process that followed and then discusses the situation and process with KD and Tim.
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SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:
1:30 - Tim got his first COVID vaccine. He’s the first of the crew to get it! He got it at an old Sear’s!
5:00 - First topic of the day: JLee shares her story about being sexually harassed at work.
12:30 - Tim asks JLee what percentage of women have experienced harassment in the workplace. She says well over 50%.
15:00 - KD asks JLee what happened after she reported the harassment. JLee asked HR not to do anything about it and she confronted the harasser herself.
19:40 - JLee says that she felt like she needed to handle it herself because she was a strong female leader. She also notes that she didn’t have confidence in the HR employees to handle it effectively.
21:50 - Tim asks JLee if she thinks what this person did was a fireable offense. She says that from her HR perspective, it seems like this employee shouldn’t be working there because of the repeated offenses.
23:00 - KD says that he misses employee investigations. JLee doesn’t miss them and Tim doesn't miss the lose-lose investigations.
26:30 - JLee says that her boss at the time was very protective of her and she worried that the boss was going to do something if she didn’t handle it herself.
30:20 - KD asks JLee if she thinks other global cultures have caught up with workplace behavior and treatment. She thinks that some pockets of the world are more progressive than others but overall, they have not caught up.
33:00 - Tim mentions how as a society, we’ve started the practice of guilty companies into doing the right thing. He mentions the example of disparities in the NCAA March Madness tournament with the men’s teams and women’s teams.
40:00 - JLee remembers that she has all of the email correspondences of her dealings with her sexual harrassment. . She’s an A+ HR employee!
35 - BlackRock's New Love Policy, Simon Sinek's Trust vs. Performance Quadrant
34 - United Airlines Lawsuit Vs. Blondes and Slack Growth Woes
33 - HR Jobs of the Future from Harvard Business Review, Virtual Learning for Kids
32 - LinkedIn is not Tinder, US Postal System Overtime Earnings
31 - Google Moves to Unhip Annual Performance Reviews, IBM is the CHRO Move of the Week
30 - Is Johnny Taylor Good for SHRM and HR?
29 - Why HR Generalists Are Winning During COVID + Salesforce Parental Leave
28 - California Gets Crazier in Going After Uber and Lyft
27 - McLovin Is Back! Plus New Data on WFH Impact on Meetings
26 - When Employees Pass Around Salary Worksheets (Blizzard Entertainment)
25 - Paid Voting Time Off at Apple, Trump Pushes Skills vs Degrees
24 - Complicated Career Expectations in the Modern World for New Grads + Notes on Hamilton
23 - TikTok On Company Phones, Unemployment $$ Crushes RTW
22 - Talking HR Reporting with Shana Lebowitz Gaynor of Business Insider
21 - NFL Rooney Rule + VMware's Minority and Female Recruiting Pivot
20 - Adidas CHRO on Ropes, SCOTUS Ruling, Pronouns & Micromanaging
19 - Starbucks Work Uniform Woes and Hourly Hiring
18 - Torin Ellis - Going All In on D&I in 2020
17 - Crocs and Compensation Strategy in a COVID World
16 – Ed Baldwin, HR Leader at Mikron (RTW in COVID America)
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