HR Besties: Remote Doesn't Mean Flexible Anymore
HR BESTIES
HR Besties LLC
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🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- Inappropriate meeting invite
- Cringe corporate speak: get granular
- Hot topic: all things remote work: what does it mean these days and did we fumble it?
- The RTO trend
- The early days of working from home and why some organizations may have trouble trusting their remote workers
- The importance of face time and social interaction is pushing Gen Z towards hybrid work
- How can leaders support remote workers?
- The keyword is boundaries
- Remote work doesn't fit into every organisation's work culture and can't ultimately fix employee burnout
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | In HR, we like to say, do not do inappropriate things at work. |
| 0:09.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:10.2 | Advice to live by. |
| 0:11.2 | It's true. |
| 0:11.9 | But I think there's some fine print you can put right below that that says, |
| 0:16.3 | especially do not use company email systems to conduct inappropriate behavior at work. |
| 0:23.1 | Yes, God, yes. |
| 0:24.4 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:25.2 | Don't recommend it. |
| 0:26.8 | Because I had heard a story from someone that I used to work with and these people, you know, being in HR, hear all the stories, now having an HR podcast or otherwise you hear a lot of stories. You'll |
| 0:39.7 | never believe this. Like, I probably will. Sad but true. But there was somebody at their workplace. |
| 0:47.1 | And this person was known as a, like, Lothario would be the probably, is that how you pronounce it? |
| 0:52.8 | Like the sleeping around with lots of people at work, lots and lots and lots of people at work, |
| 0:57.1 | and always kind of going for the new crowd. |
| 0:59.1 | Like you kind of imagine what he was probably like in college, like waiting for freshman orientation type. |
| 1:03.5 | You know, the Matthew McConaughey-esque kind of kind of. |
| 1:08.3 | All right, all right. |
| 1:09.9 | The girls get younger, but I stay the same age and kind of like, |
| 1:13.1 | oh, yeah, growth. Apparently, you know, not well kept secret. Like sometimes we've talked about |
| 1:19.7 | stories of like, oh my God, people found out about this long after the fact. People kind of knew |
| 1:23.8 | that this was happening. Thankfully, he didn't manage anybody. |
| 1:32.5 | But eventually, he was terminated from employment for inappropriate behavior at work. |
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