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Friday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#65 - Nadja Sirotkina on Global Fair Pay Analysis at BreitlingBreitling is known for its expertly engineered timepieces. And in the last few years, the renowned watchmaker has also been applying its eye for precision and accuracy to a workforce goal: evaluating and minimizing its gender pay gap. This week, Henrike talks with Nadja Sirotkina, Breitling’s rewards and performance lead, about what she and her colleagues have learned during the company’s pursuit of pay equity.2024-05-3109 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#64 - Job Architecture, AI, and Pay Transparency at Total Rewards 24This year's WorldatWork Total Rewards conference is over, and before flying out, Margrét fills Henrike in on all the exciting insights she gained from the event. These include focusing on job architecture to prepare for upcoming regulations like the European pay transparency directive, shifting from a job evaluation to a skill evaluation approach, and implementing AI in the compensation space. Listen to this extra Coffee Talk episode to get all the details!2024-05-2407 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#63 — Salma Houerbi on the UN Target Gender Equality AcceleratorThe need for workplace gender equality is global—but business environments and local requirements vary tremendously from one country to another. This means that one-size-fits-all approaches and advice can often fall short. And any program that aims to help employers worldwide move towards fair pay must also be able to offer a highly individualized approach. This is exactly the kind of program that the United Nations has set out to create. On this week’s coffee talk, program lead Salma Houerbi joins Margrét to talk about the UN Global Compact’s Target Gender Equality Accelerator.2024-05-1709 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#62 — “Mindset change challenge:” Pay bands, pay philosophy, and closing the gapHenrike brings a challenging case to the table for this week’s coffee talk. She’s been deeply involved in helping companies prepare for the EU pay transparency directive, and the directive requires companies to establish pay bands. The directive will also allow employees to ask for a comparison between their pay and the pay of their co-workers.This means that employers must be able to explain to each employee exactly why their pay is what it is.2024-04-1908 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#61 — Dietmar Knoess on PUMA’s Fair Pay LeadershipIn this coffee talk with Henrike von Platen and Dietmar Knoess of the PUMA group, we hear about both the pleasant surprise and the challenges in PUMA’s journey into fair pay leadership.2024-04-0510 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#60 - Sana Zafar on the surprising effects of pay gapsIt’s intuitive that a gender pay gap would leave women feeling less than satisfied in the workplace. But according to Sana Zafar, our coffee talk guest, the real effect is more nuanced. Pay gaps lead to lower satisfaction among both women and men, but through different mechanisms.2024-03-2209 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#59 – Iceland’s CEO Gender Gap with Thora ChristiansenUniversity of Iceland Researcher Thora Christiansen has been looking into why, despite Iceland’s intensive work on pay equity, there are still so few female CEOs. In this coffee talk, Thora joins Margrét to talk about her research into this problem—and a few possible solutions.2024-03-0809 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#58 - Introducing Structured Pay Equity AnalysisThe pay gap is a well-known problem—but Margrét and her research collaborators are always looking for better ways to solve it. This week, Margrét tells Henrike about her new article in the Harvard Business Review. Written with PayAnalytics co-founder David Anderson and research partner David Gaddis Ross, the article describes a fresh and more effective approach to closing the pay gap.2024-02-2307 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#57 — The EU Pay Transparency DirectiveThe Coffee Talk team is back with renewed energy to discuss the piece of legislation that all European companies are talking about: The EU Pay Transparency Directive. Discover the key takeaways of the Directive and the first steps your company can take to comply.2024-02-0911 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#56 – How do Employers Account for Location in Pay Equity Analysis?To achieve and maintain pay equity, you need to ensure that compensation across countries, provinces and states, and cities is fair and equitable. But how do you do that?2023-12-1509 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#55 – Reykjavik Global Forum: How Does the Rising Cost of Living Impact Gender Equality?Lightning round. In this week’s Coffee Talk, Henrike von Platen and Margrét Bjarnadóttir talk about the Reykjavik Global Forum – Women Leaders, which was held in Reykjavík on November 13-14, 2023. At the Forum, each session was short—and Henrike moderated an 18-minute session with four panelists on a particularly urgent topic: The rising cost of living. 2023-12-0108 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#54 - Dispatches from the Executive Compensation Conference: How Executive Pay and Rewards are EvolvingIn our latest installment of Coffee Talks with Planet Fair, Margrét has just returned from a visit to the Conference Board’s Executive Compensation conference in New York City with many lessons to share with listeners about bonuses, incentives, and base pay.2023-11-1709 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#53 – How Novartis is Renewing (and Keeping) Their Fair Pay PledgeThis week, Henrike caught up with Marcus Priest, Head of U.S. and R&D Rewards at Novartis, to learn about Novartis’ public pledge with the Equal Pay International Coalition (EPIC). Many companies have taken this pledge in their own way, committing to reducing inequalities through targeted goals that fit their organizational culture.2023-11-0310 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#52 – Tips to Write a Good Pay Equity StatementJoin Margrét and Henrike on an insightful conversation about pay equity statements and discover what to include in those reports when communicating, both internally and externally, your organization’s pay equity philosophy.2023-10-2008 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#51 - How to Communicate Pay Equity Goals with Special Guest Marcus Priest from NovartisIn this week’s Coffee Talk, Henrike von Platen of Fair Pay Innovation Lab speaks with Marcus Priest, Head of Global R&D Rewards at Novartis, about communicating the pledge to become a fair pay organization. Listen to Novartis’ success story in this episode of the Coffee Talk with Planet Fair to learn more about how to build an internal communications strategy to support pay transparency—even across countries, continents, cultures—and to integrate a pay equity mindset into your organizational culture.2023-10-0611 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#50 – Why Are Certifications Important?In this episode, Margrét and Henrike talk about certifications and their benefits. Tune in for an insightful conversation!2023-09-2209 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#49 –Which Pay Equity KPIs Should Companies Report on?In this Coffee Talk, Margrét and Henrike answer your pressing questions about which pay equity KPIs to report on and how to communicate your journey. Tune in!2023-09-0809 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#48 - Are U.S. Pay Transparency Laws Working?Pay Transparency: Employer Compliance Statistics Vary State-by-State. Why?For our first Coffee Talk after a summer respite in the sun, PayAnalytics co-founder Dr. David Ryberg Anderson joins Margrét to discuss his recent research into the efficacy of pay transparency laws in the U.S. During the talk, the two focus on salary range posting in California, Colorado, and New York using data from Monster.com.2023-08-2509 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#47 - Proactively Monitoring Bias in HR ToolsIn this week's coffee talk, Henrike and Margrét followup on questions raised in Episode 46 about the applications of AI in HR. AI can make us faster and more efficient in some ways—speeding manual, tedious tasks, for example—but, if we aren't careful, biases can slip in and catch us off guard. Watch this coffee talk to learn about proactively monitoring AI tools in HR. 2023-07-1408 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#46 - Getting the most out of ChatGPT for HRIn this week’s coffee talk, Margrét and Henrike chat ChatGPT and its applications for HR. They coach us in best practices for posing questions to the chatbot to yield the most valuable answers for HR practitioners, and point out where (and why) to use caution. And did we mention there’s a side-by-side demo of ChatGPT3.5 and 4?2023-06-3014 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#45 - How companies use analytics to support DEI initiativesThis week, Margrét speaks to Henrike von Platen from San Diego, where World at Work’s Total Rewards ‘23 conference has just wrapped up. So the topic of the day? Major takeaways, of course, at the meeting point of people analytics, great data infrastructure, and DEI goals.2023-06-1608 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#44 – Stereotyping in hiring and promoting: Can bias training help?Diversity will drop into place if your system is objective and stereotype-free. But what if it isn’t? 2023-06-0208 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#43 - How are multinational companies addressing the pay gap?In ensuring pay equity, global companies contend with the need to account for cultural values across countries. Read on to find out how to address cultural differences in compensation decisions.2023-05-1908 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#42 - Would joint leadership work for you?Among the practices that helped earn BMW its gold medal for universal fair pay leadership, the company allows joint leadership for some leadership positions. In this coffee talk, Margrét and Henrike discuss this practice: when can it be helpful to allow one full-time position to be filled by two part-time workers instead?2023-04-2108 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#41 - Variables that determine payMargrét and Henrike talk about the variables that determine pay. Should older employees be paid more than young ones doing the same job? Are there alternative approaches to using age to represent experience? Our hosts also talk about employee performance, the most controversial (and possibly most fun) variable to measure.2023-04-1408 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#40 - A mayor’s pay discrimination case: Astrid Siemes-KnoblichIn this week’s Coffee Talk, Henrike speaks with Astrid Siemes-Knoblich. Astrid served as mayor of her town in southwestern Germany. After her term was over, she realized that her predecessor and her successor — who were both men — were paid more than she was.2023-03-2409 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#39 - A Good Week for Pay Equity: International Women’s Day and Fair Pay CertificationMargrét and Henrike talk about good news for pay equity: International Women’s Day and a major Universal Fair Pay Check win from BMW. The duo discuss why companies pursue fair pay certification. (It’s not just about employer branding – it can build lasting trust with employees.) Plus, they outline the two first steps companies take in order to get certified.2023-03-1008 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#38 - A landmark pay transparency case - Gabriele Gamroth-GüntherNew pay transparency laws in many countries allow employees to ask for a salary comparison. But what happens when pay discrimination is revealed? In this coffee talk, Henrike talks with Gabriele Gamroth-Günther, who gives a firsthand account of her experience and her landmark legal case.2023-02-2409 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#37 - “Potential” and the Promotion Gap with Alan BensonIn this coffee talk, Prof. Alan Benson discusses his research with Margrét. He found a gender gap in employee evaluations: female employees are 50% more likely to be labeled “high performance” but “low potential” for promotion.2023-02-1008 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#36 - Gender Bias in Online Reviews - Starring Julia BarnettCoffee Talk Episode 35 focuses on some illuminating research on gender bias. Margrét is joined by Julia Barnett, a PhD candidate at Northwestern University. Julia's research interests lie in algorithmic ethics and transparency, reducing the socio-technical harms of algorithmic systems, and deep generative applications in social contexts. Her recent study shows how patients perceive doctors differently based on the doctor’s gender. She examined over 400,000 online reviews of physicians.2023-01-2708 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#35 - Let's talk DEI - Starring Salomé Germain TriganoIn Episode 35, the first Coffee Talk session of 2023, Margret Bjarnadottir speaks with Salomé Germain Trigano. Salomé is an expert in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI). She established Arba Advisory with the objective of guiding companies and universities in formulating and implementing a potent DEI action plan, fostering a more inclusive and diverse culture, and realizing ambitious and quantifiable objectives.2023-01-1310 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#34 - Two big questions about the Equal Pay GapWhere does the Equal Pay Gap come from? Are there any patterns? Like with all good questions, it depends!2022-12-3008 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#33 - Defensive versus offensive strategy to close the pay gap - Starring David AndersonNot all companies have the same motivations for closing their equal pay gaps. In this week’s Coffee Talk, Margret speaks with PayAnalytics co-founder David Anderson about the two major types of motivation and how they influence companies’ decision-making. This short discussion is based on David’s recent presentation at the WorldatWork pay equity forum in Austin, Texas.2022-12-0908 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#32 – Insights from the Workplace Equity ForumIn this week’s Coffee Talk, Margrét comes to us from a hotel atrium in Austin, Texas with highlights from the WorldatWork Workplace Equity Forum.2022-11-2508 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#31 - Focus on DEI - Starring Rena NigamIn this week’s Coffee Talk, Margrét is joined by Rena Nigam, the CEO and founder of Meytier. an AI-enabled, diversity-focused job platform that aims to make hiring more equitable, with a focus on gender diversity. Here are some highlights from Margrét and Rena’s conversation.2022-11-1810 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#30 - Geographic Pay PoliciesThe topic of this episode is Geographic Pay Policies. What is changing? Should there be geographical pay differences? Has the pandemic changed this?2022-07-2208 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#29 - Transparency News from New YorkMargret and Henrike discuss how to prepare comply with requirements from new pay transparency legislation across the globe. For example, how to define salary ranges?2022-04-2908 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#28 - Women in tech - Starring Karen HoltzblattIn this episode 28 of Coffee Talk, Margrét speaks with Karen Holtzblatt who has studied how to retain women in tech for decades. 2022-04-1512 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#27 - News from BrusselsMargret and Henrike talk about the binding pay-transparency measures in the new EU directive: 2021/0050(COD) Equal pay for equal work between men and women (pay transparency and enforcement mechanisms), and the MEPs back binding these measures. This directive is likely to have a big impact on organizations and companies.2022-04-0109 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#26 - Home office - blessing or curse?Margret and Henrike discuss the exciting question of whether the opportunity to work in a home office, which is increasingly offered and used due to the pandemic, is actually a good or a bad thing - and have very different opinions and lots of food for thought.2022-03-1809 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#25 - How to decouple time and money?Margret and Henrike chat about time and money over their coffees. And breaking time and money in work and compensation practices questions the underlying assumptions that have guided paid employment for so long.2022-03-0409 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#24 - The Friday Coffee Talk is back - tackling the big questions on the new normalAfter a break, Henrike von Platen and Dr. Margret Vilborg Bjarnadóttir are back - drinking their coffee and chatting about how to reach fair pay fast. Having discussed pay gaps and their underlying causes, the two will move further and tackle the big questions of work after the COVID-19 pandemic. From compensation strategies for remote work, measuring the value of work, developments in working time, to how companies can attract people back - Henrike and Margret absolutely agree - pay equity is an integral part of all these developments ahead. 2022-02-1807 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#23 - What is work of equal value?In episode 23, Margret explains the reasoning behind analyzing the value of work and presents a new tool developed by PayAnalytics that enables the assessment of the worth of jobs and the comparison of groups performing different jobs with similar value, thereby facilitating the identification of any job undervaluation.2021-11-1909 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#22 - What is happening in Iceland? Starring Vidir RagnarssonHenrike is joined by a very special guest in a very special place: Vidir Ragnarsson from PayAnalytics - who is visiting Berlin. They discuss the very promising situation in Iceland. Pay gaps are going down and companies are increasingly willing to share their gaps. Vidir Ragnarsson's advice: Start with the data and measuring and go on from there. 2021-11-0509 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#21 - What are oppressive pay practices? Starring Rashmi Dixit & Kate Dixon from RakarisingMargret is joined by has two guests: Rashmi Dixit and Kate Dixon, the partners and co-founders of Rakarising. Together they are on a mission to not only bring attention to oppressive pay practices, but to eradicate them. You can follow their work on rakarising.com.2021-10-2910 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#20 - How important are reporting and regulation? Starring Raafi-Karim AlidinaMargret and Henrike are joined by Raafi-Karim Alidina, Consultant, Data & Product Lead at Included.2021-10-1510 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#19 - How can the system in the US be changed?Margret and Henrike discuss this year's World at Work conference. One of the big topics at the conference is that many companies have great difficulties in finding new employees at all levels of qualification. In the U.S. in particular, companies are therefore looking at how to optimize reward packages and attract skilled workers. Because unlike in most European countries, US-American employees don't automatically get the benefit of health care or paid parental leave. But how could this reality be changed for the better?2021-10-0809 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#18 - How much of an equality role model is France?Margret and Henrike discuss what the real state of equality is for French women. What laws are in place? How is pay equity measured? Is everything as progressive as it looks from the outside? Or do some things seem better than they really are? 2021-10-0108 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#17 - What impact can a German TV editor's lawsuit have? Starring Katinka BroseMargret is the host of this episode and is joined by Katinka Brose from the Fair Pay Innovation Lab. They discuss a fair pay lawsuit filed by a German media maker who went to court against her employer in 2017. But what impact will this case have on jurisprudence in Germany, where fair pay lawsuits can be counted on two hands so far? To what extent is the type of contract decisive here, and how can gender discrimination in pay be determined?2021-09-2408 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#16 - 10 Benefits of Fair Pay (+1 Bonus)From increased employee satisfaction (and, in turn, motivation) to a dip in turnover and more control over compensation decisions, the benefits of paying fairly and transparently build upon one another. In this coffee talk, Henrike and Margret have a lightning round to answer your burning questions about the measurable positive outcomes of pay equity. 2021-09-1709 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#15 - Why wouldn’t we want equal pay? (starring Stephen Frost)Margret and Henrike are joined by the Diversity & Inclusion expert, Stephen Frost, who is not only an old college friend of Margret’s, he was the first officer of inclusion at the London Olympics, founded the impact-led consultancy “Included” in 2012. Over coffee with Margrét and Henrike Stephen describes his remarkable journey: from a lobbyist for Diversity & Inclusion, wondering right from the beginning: Why wouldn't we want equal pay?.2021-09-1011 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#14 - How not to be afraid of analyzing?Margret and Henrike discuss why companies always become unsure after the first attempt - because they are afraid of the results of the pay analysis. Often, they want to keep their fair pay efforts a secret at the beginning. But what exactly are they insecure about? And how can they be made less concerned about the analysis?2021-09-0308 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#13 - How to build unbiased models for the future using data of the past?After a crazy week, Margrét and Henrike talk about a white paper that our amazing data addict from Iceland has been working on with her colleagues. The paper has the fantastic and promising title: There Are No Colourblind Models in a Colorful World. And it deals with such important questions as to how to apply AI successfully to HR, how it can change people’s lives, and how all our data reflect the past and its systematic lack of women. Super fascinating!2021-08-2708 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#12 - What has working time to do with fair pay?Margret and Henrike discuss how the diversity in workforces is reflected in working time arrangements and what effects this has on fair pay. Working time and fair pay are interlinked, but how exactly? Especially overtime or shifts and related pay and allowances have an impact on the pay gap. But is this fair? And how does this affect pay gaps?2021-08-2008 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#11 - How do we benchmark fair pay?Margret and Henrike discuss benchmarking. But how is fair pay compared? Does a company benchmark itself to other companies, or should it measure success based on its own standards? How important is salary when "more money" isn't even the most important reason to change a job, but most employees rather care about their careers? What impact has Covid had on salaries?2021-08-1308 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#10 - The European Union and its way to pay transparencyMargret and Henrike are joined by the strategy and policy expert Katinka Brose working at FPI with Henrike, and discuss many insights into the latest developments in European legislation. They talk about the International Pay Transparency Conference, where experts from around the world discussed the latest developments last week - and agreed on one thing in particular: More sanctions are needed.2021-08-0608 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#9 - What are the 6 major steps to fair pay?Margret and Henrike discuss the International Pay Transparency Conference that took place on July 28, 2021. Margret and Henrike talk about major insights of the conference, best practices, and successful corporate strategies to close pay gaps - and not letting them open up again.2021-07-3008 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#8 - What does transparency mean to you?Margret and Henrike discuss the International Fair Pay Conference, in which Margret will participate (via videocall) as an expert. The focus of the conference will be on the new EU directive on fair pay, which is intended to ensure greater transparency across Europe. But what does transparency actually mean?2021-07-2308 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#7 - Why do we need transparency to be diverse?Margret and Henrike discuss buying power, and the fact that so many women of minorities in post-Covid context are considering leaving their jobs in pay equity... But most of all, it's about the question: Why is transparency so essential on the path to equality?2021-07-1608 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#6 - What can Sweden teach us for the future?Margret and Henrike discuss Sweden, where a completely different course was set in terms of equality back in the 1970s. Our two pay gap experts take this as an opportunity to make a bold leap into the future.2021-07-0909 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#5 - Does everything have to be perfect from the start?Margret and Henrike discuss the process needed to value activities for a non-discriminatory pay system. How can work be valued? What is the best way to measure the value of different activities? How can similar and equivalent activities be compared? And do these questions have to be answered perfectly from the start?2021-07-0208 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#4 - How expensive is it to close your pay gaps?Margret and Henrike discuss the question of all questions: What is the actual cost of closing the pay gaps? They also try to understand an astonishing paradox - in the beginning people assume everything is fine within their organization, but at the same time they fear that closing the gaps could be terribly expensive. But is that actually true? How expensive is it really?2021-06-2508 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#3 - Reducing Italy's pay gap by 7% by 2026Italy, the country with the lowest participation of women in the labor market is finally making progress. In 2021, then-Prime Minister Draghi set ambitious goals for pay equity: The administration aimed to drive down the unadjusted pay gap from 17% to 10% by 2026. But how is Italy going to do it? And how will these changes impact employers?2021-06-1808 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#2 - What have unions to do with points?Margret and Henrike continue their last week's discussion about job evaluation systems but this time focused on unions. They talk about the importance of aligning your job evaluation scheme to the pay structure/decisions.2021-06-1109 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#1 - What's going on in Spain?Margret and Henrike discuss legislation changes in Spain in 2021.2021-06-0408 minFriday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair#0 - The preview episode: Who are Margrét and Henrike?We are pleased to introduce The Friday Coffee Talk from Planet Fair, a business discussion hosted by Margrét and Henrike. During this 8-minute chat, the two pay gap experts discuss topics related to the fast moving world of pay equity. In this preview episode, they introduce themselves and encourage listeners to tune in.2021-05-3110 min