The Right To Disconnect
HR BESTIES
HR Besties LLC
4.8 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- Mandated bible study
- Cringe corporate speak: Stay in your lane
- Hot topic: Right to Disconnect
- Disconnecting is difficult (oh, we know)
- Encouraging breaks is good management
- How can we set boundaries?
- Advocating for your team
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | So I don't know about y'all, but I can guess. |
| 0:07.8 | But for those of you listening, I'm going to make the assumption that you probably have lunch during your lunch break or you spend that time doing things for you. |
| 0:22.6 | Like, you know, probably maybe not working, hopefully, take a little break. |
| 0:27.6 | But, you know, you're doing things on your agenda, to do list, whatever, right? |
| 0:34.5 | Your grocery list, you're running errands, perhaps even during lunch, you're grabbing |
| 0:37.8 | that coffee, you're meeting with a friend, whatever. Could you imagine being forced to do something |
| 0:47.1 | during your lunch break that you are not compensated for, but per your state, are able to take that 30-minute lunch break. |
| 0:56.6 | Could you imagine your supervisor controlling your lunch break? |
| 1:01.0 | No. |
| 1:01.4 | Oh, well, then brace yourselves because let me share with you a very true tale of a supervisor |
| 1:09.8 | mandating Bible study for his entire team for a very long time, |
| 1:17.4 | like a year at least, that was approved by his leader and even the CEO. |
| 1:25.1 | Oh. |
| 1:27.1 | Mandating it. |
| 1:28.1 | Like, everyone had to go. |
| 1:30.1 | Everyone, no matter what you believed or what you had planned for your lunch, right, everybody had to attend a mandatory Bible study because that supervisor was a minister. |
| 1:41.2 | This was not approved by HR. |
| 1:43.3 | And it was approved by HR. And it was approved by HR. |
| 1:46.2 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:49.8 | And then here I walk in as new HR. |
| 1:51.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:52.8 | I was like, hold on, start. |
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