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Hosted by Rebecca Taylor · 🇺🇸 us · EN · 92 episodes
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HR Voices is a scenario-based podcast for People Leaders who’ve actually had to make the call.Each episode brings experienced HR and People leaders into realistic, anonymized workplace scenarios—the kind you recognize immediately. Performance issues. Messy conflicts. Investigations that don’t fit neatly into a policy box. Instead of talking about their own companies, guests react to outside cases and walk through how they’d think it through in real time.There are no right answers here. What you’ll hear is judgment: how seasoned leaders balance risk, fairness, legal reality, and humanity when the stakes are high and the path isn’t obvious.HR Voices is for HR, People Ops, legal, and leaders who want to hear how other smart humans actually handle employee relations—without confidentiality breaches, hypotheticals that feel fake, or a lecture on “best practices.”
Rebecca Taylor hosts HR Voices, a business show with 92 episodes published.
An anonymous ethics hotline report lands on your desk. Widespread favoritism on the sales team. No names. No dates. No incidents. Nothing you can act on. The VP of sales wants it closed as unactionable. So you pull comp
A high performer goes quiet, and her manager decides she's quiet quitting and starts pushing her toward the door. What he doesn't know: she's caring for a parent with a terminal diagnosis. Host Rebecca Taylor and Cindy W
An HR analyst builds a $400/hour AI consulting practice on evenings and weekends. She never tells her employer. There's no moonlighting policy. Then her manager finds it on LinkedIn and raises concerns about loyalty, dis
The conversation delves into the complexities of workplace tensions arising from off-duty political expression and employee concerns. It explores the impact on company culture, the importance of employee dialogue, and th
Summary On HR Voices, host Rebecca Taylor sits down with Chad Thompson, Chief People Officer at LanzaTech, to work through a scenario every people leader will recognize: a manager discloses an employee's performance impr
Summary On HR Voices, Rebecca Taylor and Kandi Gongora, Chief Transformation and People Officer at The Car Group, work through a forced ranking system that's falling apart: managers are required to put 10% of every team
Summary On HR Voices, Rebecca Taylor and guest Stacy Winsett, Chief People Officer at RATP Dev USA, work through a termination scenario that collapses into a six-figure settlement. A manager fires an employee after a hea
Summary On this episode of HR Voices, Rebecca Taylor and Julianne Galli, VP of People at Kindbody, work through a fabricated but painfully familiar scenario: a 61-year-old senior director is retitled "Director of Special
Summary On HR Voices, host Rebecca Taylor talks with Paul Yater, who holds the unusual dual role of Chief Information Officer and Head of Human Resources at 84 Lumber, a building materials supplier with 7,600 associates
Summary On HR Voices, Rebecca Taylor and Sara Birmingham, Chief People Officer at Shutterstock, work through a familiar trap: a manager wants to put a newly remote, recently accommodated employee on a PIP, and the reques
Summary On this episode of HR Voices, Rebecca Taylor talks with Alisa DiBeasi, CHRO at PHINIA, about a problem nearly every People team is facing: rising requests for flexibility and accommodations, and managers handling
Summary On HR Voices, host Rebecca Taylor sits down with Weston Fillman and Gabrielle Caron from 1Password to unpack the Meta firings over faked keyboard activity and what they reveal about how HR is supposed to roll out
Summary In this episode of HR Voices, Rebecca Taylor is joined by Margie Zyble, CHRO at UC Health Cincinnati, to work through a high-stakes scenario: a company's forced ranking system produces racially disparate outcomes
Summary HR Voices explores real and fabricated anonymized employee relations scenarios through the lens of experienced HR and People leaders. In this episode, Rebecca Taylor is joined by D'Mar Phillips, VP of People and
Summary On HR Voices, host Rebecca Taylor and Jeannie Virden, Chief People Officer at Central Health, work through a layered employee relations scenario: an employee with an approved work from home accommodation whose ma
Summary In this episode of HR Voices, Rebecca Taylor is joined by Paul D. Brubaker, VP of HR for North America at KARL STORZ, to work through one of the most complex scenarios an HR leader can face: a confidential miscon
Summary A single counteroffer—a 22% raise to retain a valued analyst—triggered a pay equity crisis within weeks. Three teammates discovered the increase, demanded comparable raises citing discrimination, and two threaten
Summary A marketing manager files a pregnancy discrimination complaint after being passed over for a director promotion. The role went to a male peer with less tenure. The hiring committee's written notes cite "bandwidth
Summary According to a 2024 Society for Human Resource Management report, 67% of organizations now encourage pronoun sharing as part of workplace inclusion efforts — yet only 23% report zero employee objections. A compan
Summary In an exit interview, a departing employee discloses that her manager has been stealing several thousand dollars from petty cash over the past year. She estimates the total theft at thousands of dollars but admit
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HR Voices is hosted by Rebecca Taylor. The show is categorised under business (management) and has published 92 episodes.
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