Margret and Henrike, the award-winning founders of PayAnalytics and FPI Fair Pay Innovation Lab respectively, converse with their guests about fair pay, equality and better workplaces, all while sharing their own visions of a future where we strive towards "Planet Fair". Margret usually has her cappuccino in Reykjavík or Washington, D.C. while Henrike enjoys her cup either at Berlin Wannsee or on an island in the Atlantic. The episodes are available as a YouTube Videocast or as an Audio Podcast. You can subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
In this week’s Coffee Talk, Margrét comes to us from a hotel atrium in Austin, Texas with highlights from the WorldatWork Workplace Equity Forum.
In 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.
The topic of this episode is Geographic Pay Policies. What is changing? Should there be geographical pay differences? Has the pandemic changed this?
Margret and Henrike discuss how to prepare comply with requirements from new pay transparency legislation across the globe. For example, how to define salary ranges?
In this episode 28 of Coffee Talk, Margrét speaks with Karen Holtzblatt who has studied how to retain women in tech for decades.
Margret 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.
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.
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.
After 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.
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.
Henrike 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.
Margret 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.
