HR Besties: Workplace Trends in 2025
HR BESTIES
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🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Happy New Year, Besties! We're so glad you're here to join us for another year of Business and Bullsh*t.
Today's agenda:
- Bovine piss in the workplace
- Cringe corporate speak: back to work
- Hot topic: workplace trends in 2025
- What's hot and happening in the workforce in the new year?
- Is AI a threat to our jobs?
- Leaders should embrace new technologies as a way to assist team members and automate everyday tasks
- Streamlining processes allows for teams to build connections
- AI is here to stay... leaders must stay competitive and ahead
- Hybrid, remote and back to the office
- Flexibility and adaptability for members in and out of the workplace will make a team stronger
- Employment law 2025: what to expect
- Addressing labor shortages and skill gaps
- Employee wellbeing
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | Piss. |
| 0:06.9 | Piss, piss, piss, right? |
| 0:09.7 | Urine at work. |
| 0:11.7 | Y'all been around a lot of urine at work. |
| 0:14.3 | It can be a really pissy situation. |
| 0:16.7 | Yeah, piss and shit. |
| 0:18.0 | A lot of piss and shit. |
| 0:19.0 | Yeah, we're a piss and shit. |
| 0:20.4 | But this is all about drug screening. |
| 0:24.9 | Has anyone ever ran their drug screening program for their employer? |
| 0:32.2 | Yes. It sucks. Most of the time, yes. |
| 0:36.2 | It sucks. It sucks. So hard. I've advised. I've advised on it. |
| 0:42.6 | But anyway, it is terrible. It is absolutely terrible, Ashley, just FYI, because you have to, of course, |
| 0:50.3 | adhere to whatever regulations, DOD, whatever you're dealing with, whatever the policy |
| 0:55.3 | is. You have to do the randomizer. Like, you know, you had to, like, get the people and all of that |
| 1:01.9 | for the randoms. And, oh, you have to have that special bathroom. You have to have the, you know, |
| 1:08.3 | the supplier that comes in and like administers. |
| 1:11.4 | I mean, all of that, it takes so much planning to do drug screening at work, right? |
| 1:17.6 | So when you do repetitive randoms, your workforce, of course, knows you're doing them. |
| 1:23.8 | They all talk about it, whatever. |
| 1:25.4 | This one time, I remember, you know, we had the line of |
| 1:30.6 | guys. It was all guys in this particular day. And, you know, they're going one by one into the |
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