The new shape of work
Episodes
From data to impact: Leveraging AI in Total Rewards
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Gord Frost and Jess Von Bank dive deep into how AI is reshaping Total Rewards and HR, emphasizing that true transformation requires m...
Rethinking Cost Management: Strategies for a Resilient Workforce
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Kate Bravery, Talent Advisory Leader, hosts a discussion with three Mercer experts, Will Self, Katerina Psychopaida and Sean Connelly...
Adapting executive pay strategies in uncertain times
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Gordon Frost, Mercer’s Global Rewards Solution Leader, is joined by two colleagues, Peter Boreham, European Executive Compensation ...
Shaping well-being for tomorrow’s workforce with Dr. Andrew Tay
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Kate Bravery, Global Leader of Talent Advisory at Mercer, is joined by Dr. Andrew Tay, Chief Wellbeing Officer at the National Univer...
The Skills-Powered Organizations: A conversation with Standard Chartered
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Bravery, Global Leader of Talent Advisory at Mercer, is joined by Ravin Jesuthasan, Mercer’s Global Transformation Leader, and Tanuj Kapilashra...
Using the power of data to drive pay fairness and transparency
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Gordon Frost, Mercer’s Global Rewards Solution Leader, emphasizes the importance of using data to improve pay fairness and transpar...
Delivering the Future of Work at Anglo American: the CLO role
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Kate Bravery, Talent Advisory Leader, interviews Tim Walker-Jones, Chief Learning Officer at Anglo American, about the evolving role ...
Bridging the gap: C-Suite and HR priorities for success in 2025
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Kate Bravery and Gord Frost and they share a preview of the results from both Mercer’s 2024-2025 Global Talent Trends survey report and 2025 Ex...
A microscope on total rewards: Trends for 2025
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The demands on the total rewards function are quickly changing. Listen as Kate Bravery and Gordon Frost discuss the increasing challenges HR professio...
The realities of HR’s role in AI with Susan Youngblood
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
HR professionals are moving along the AI adoption path to focus on the practical application for their teams and workforces. In this discussion, Kate ...
Balancing AI value and risk with Jason Tamara Widjaja
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
AI is evolving quickly, and organizations are trying to keep up. It seems that everyone is on the Generative AI journey, but there's a broad distribut...
Thinking big: Talent and growth in the Middle East and India
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Middle East and India have tremendous growth ambition and are making great strides toward their goals. But fast growth also comes with talent mana...
Total rewards reinvented: Harnessing the potential of GenAI
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While organizations have been exploring how AI can support their productivity and growth across many functions, one area that has been taking a more c...
Pay fairness and transparency: Rewards for the modern workforce
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Kate Bravery and Gordon Frost of Mercer explore how employee expectations and legislative imperatives are reshaping total reward stra...
The Journey to agile HR. Insights from Rabobank
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Janine Vos of Rabobank shares the challenges and opportunities on the path to becoming an agile HR team, and the mindset shift that is crucial to the ...
AI and productivity: People at the center of sustainable change
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are we positioned to access the full potential of AI-driven productivity gains when 82% of employees feel at risk of burnout?
Step out of your comfort zone with Wanda Wallace
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wanda Wallace shares the importance of stepping out of your comfort zone, knowing when it is time to move on, and building supportive relationships in...
Embracing AI in the rewards function
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak with Martin Smit, Head of Global Compensation Solutions at Takeda, about Generative AI in the rewards function, the opportu...
Maintaining a People-Centric Culture at Volvo Cars
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hanna Fager shares how the focus on long-term employment and investing in people’s development supports performance and culture at Volvo Cars.
10 truths for winning in the people age
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we are sharing practical guidance for making sustainable people mangement work in today's global economy. The advice shared comes...
Revolutionizing HR: The Impact of AI and skills on HR transformation
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The use of generative AI can enable HR teams to work more efficiently with data, find talent with future-fit skills, and enhance the employee experien...
From protection to prevention: The shift in workplace well-being
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The conversation around well-being is expanding from health into new areas including financial well-being, job quality and even social isolation. Wor...
Think and be digital: How AI will improve jobs
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The fast pace of change has employees exhausted, but adding AI into the HR digital transformation has the potential to enhance jobs in the future. Jas...
How Novo Nordisk paved the path for inclusive business transformation
13 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How did HR and IT at Novo Nordisk collaborated to elevate DEI as a critical piece of the business transformation agenda? Listen to the journey they to...
Benefits in transition. How Ericsson is enhancing the employee experience
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Transforming total rewards programs to create consistent and cost effective benefits offerings for employees can be an effective way to attract and re...
Work Here Now: Think like a human and build a powerhouse workplace
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can we do things differently today to improve the future of work? Melissa Swift shares practical fixes to basic things that are wrong with work. W...
Infosys placed skills at the center of rewards for success
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Organizations are looking for ways to win the war for talent. In this episode, Nandini Nathan, Group Head of Compensation and Benefits at Infosys, tal...
People are central to success in M&A deals
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Jeff Black, Mercer’s Global M&A Advisory Leader, shares how organizations need to understand the talent they have and ensure the...
AI at work: What is shifting and how HR can help
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we'll be diving deep into Generative AI to discuss how generative AI is impacting the workplace, and more critically how we can at an indivi...
Refocusing on employee experience in a challenging market
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Employee engagement is critical, but as people rethink their relationship to work, organizations have an opportunity to improve their approach engagem...
Embracing equity, inclusion and belonging
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the discussions about the evolving future of work, the idea of transitioning from traditional roles into skills-based work has many people excited....
Attract and retain the talent you need
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Organizations worldwide are facing big challenges. Whether it is talent shortages, inflationary challenges and how they affect compensation, or recess...
Prioritizing a living wage with Yara
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Forward-thinking organizations are reinventing themselves under the new shape of work as responsible, innovative employers making proactive commitment...
How the economy is influencing business and people agendas
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak about the current economic situation and the potential impacts on the business and people agendas in 2023. Amelia Hadfield t...
Addressing the human energy crisis
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are seeing a human energy crisis in workplaces today. People are feeling especially depleted and HR is concerned that if we can’t bring back peop...
The ROI of supporting employee mental health
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Employees have been bruised by the events of the last two years and many are feeling a form of despair, anxiety and a lost sense of belonging. While t...
Total rewards at the center of innovation at SAP
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The employee reward landscape is adapting to better support new ways of working and it is becoming a critical lever in culture change. In this episode...
Radically transforming HR with BMW
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we are talking with Moritz Kippenberger, head of HR services at BMW group, about how HR needs to radically transform the way it opera...
Delivering workforce security and flexibility with Unilever
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Workplace flexibility is high on the business agenda and, as a result, organizations are looking at adjustments to their work operating &n...
Help employees thrive with total wellbeing
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Executives ranked total well-being as one of the top employee initiatives that will deliver ROI in 2022. Learn what employees are looking fo...
Redesigning work, working and the workforce
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Employers are managing through a tremendous amount of change. In this episode, Ravin Jesuthasan and Brian Fisher with Mercer discuss employers’ need...
Blending Talent and Transformation ambitions with Bayer
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At its core, transformation is more than just business model transformation, it is also about people. We can start the transformation journey by think...
How men can break the bias
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With men still holding the majority of the positions of power in the global workforce, gender equality will simply not happen without their involvemen...
A revitalized vision for diversity, equity and inclusion in the workforce
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
COVID-19, racial and social unrest, and a growing ESG agenda have accelerated the need for a more diverse, equitable and inclusive world. Join as Till...
Progressing ESG and sustainability goals
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At this stage in the pandemic, many organizations are finding themselves on growth trajectories again. But, those growth trajectories need to be susta...
Progressing ESG and sustainability goals
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At this stage in the pandemic, many organizations are finding themselves on growth trajectories again. But, those growth trajectories need to be susta...
Reskilling employees to win the war for talent
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of our conversation with Tripti Jha, we discuss the importance of skills, building a skill-fueled culture, and how you might approach the ...
Employee well-being is a core part of your business culture
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tripti Jha, Novartis discusses the shift away from seeing well-being as a benefit, as well as how the unbossed culture journey that Novartis started p...
Evolving for the new shape of work while optimizing for today
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
David Henderson Group CHRO at Zurich Insurance shares how the future of work has shifted during the pandemic; the critical role that upskilling and re...
Addressing people risks in the US healthcare industry
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The healthcare industry faces a variety of significant risks from rising demand for service, rapid technology adoption and a workforce on the front li...
Addressing people risks in the US healthcare industry
20 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The healthcare industry faces a variety of significant risks from rising demand for service, rapid technology adoption and a workforce on the front li...
Is the future of work agenda shifting?
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The workplace and the workforce has changed at an accelerated pace. It's clear that we're still figuring out how best to respond to this new landscape...
Flexing to support growth at Pandora
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
77% of companies said that flexibility is going to drive their transformation agenda this year according to our Global Talent Trends research. Compani...
Factoring DEI data into business decisions at GE
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Organizations’ are increasingly focused on ensuring that different populations of their employees are truly thriving. Join us as we speak with Travi...
Leading the way on diversity
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The pandemic has magnified the impacts of social inequality. There is more awareness of racial discrimination, gender inequalities, and mental health ...
Longer working lives demand a flexible approach to retirement
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Flexible working supports longer and more fulfilling careers, giving employees newfound freedom and employers access to experienced talent. Interestin...
Keeping benefit plan costs under control
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Providing cost-effective benefit plans that protect and improve health requires optimizing costs while maintaining a focus on employee wellbeing. Empl...
Mapping HR’s bold new future
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mercer’s Global Talent Trends 2021 research shares four key trends that will enable companies to navigate in the future. COVID-19 has accelerated ma...
Supporting mental health when returning to the workplace
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pairing empathy and design thinking can support plans for a safe return to work factoring in the diverse physical, mental, and social needs of the wor...
The benefit of talent sharing
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Temporary talent sharing can help you optimize costs and workforce — and avoid layoffs — by flexing roles and talent, allowing employees to learn ...
New ways of working and living
23 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Looking at the coronavirus in three phases – respond, return, and reinvent – can help employers plan for the unique challenges that businesses mus...