Episodes
63% Were Job Hunting, the Engagement Survey Missed It
This week Jenni Field and Chuck Gose work through five stories: why standard engagement surveys keep missing frontline flight risk, a manifesto calling for internal comms to drop the "pomp and circumstance," what work from...
Cognitive Debt: Why 83% Forgot What AI Just Wrote
An MIT preprint scanned people's brains while they wrote with ChatGPT. 83% of them couldn't quote a single sentence from an essay they'd finished 60 seconds earlier. Researchers call it "cognitive debt." Chuck and Jenni ar...
Sick Days Feed the Firing Algorithm: Inside AI Layoffs
This week Jenni Field and Chuck Gose bookend a heavy AI week with two very human stories, tracking how automated decision-making is quietly reshaping who gets hired, who gets let go, and who gets left behind. Along the way...
Secretly Happy: Why AI Won't Give You a Four-Hour Week
Sam Altman says AI won't deliver a four-hour workweek because people are too competitive. Chuck's verdict: "This might be the very definition of the word delusional." In this episode of Frequency, Jenni Field and Chuck Gos...
26% Trust Their Leaders: Inside Chipotle's High-Stakes Promotion Bet
Only 26% of employees say their senior leaders are both competent and trustworthy. So this week Jenni and Chuck look at who gets ahead at work, and why so few people trust the ones already in charge. Four stories: a Chipot...
Half of AI Job Cuts Reversed by 2027: The Judgment Gap
Jenni and Chuck cover four stories this week: Gartner's prediction that half of AI-driven workforce cuts will reverse by 2027, new research on the office condition that actually drives team performance, an internal comms p...
Fired for Ignoring His Own RTO Mandate: Inside a $30M Leadership Credibility Collapse
This week Chuck and Jenni dig into what heavy AI use is actually doing to us, why most executive offsites fail before they even start, a co-founder who got fired for breaking the very return-to-office rule he signed off on...
The Hidden Cost of Empathy: Why 80% of Women Managers Are Now Unpaid Therapists
This week, Chuck and Jenni dig into four stories reshaping how we think about generations, empathy, and boundaries at work: why the evidence for "generational differences" keeps failing to show up, the hidden emotional tol...
Engaged but Trapped: Why a Third of Workers Predict Toxic Culture
This week Jenni and Chuck are digging into the real return on AI-driven layoffs, why AI-generated writing has stalled instead of taking over the internet, what's really happening as companies go quiet on LGBTQ+ support, an...
Employee Engagement Hits a 5-Year Low — And Managers Are Next
This week Jenni Field and Chuck Gose are talking about long-term thinking in a short-term world, what the resignation of the UK Prime Minister reveals about leadership communication, new data from Gallup on the state of gl...
The $450K CCO and the Headphones Double Standard
Jenni and Chuck are in the same room for the first time in 60+ episodes, and they spend it arguing about whether your headphones are quietly making coworkers think less of you. Before that, four reports worth a comms team'...
More AI Won't Fix Your Employee Experience. Here's What Will.
This week Jenni and Chuck dig into four stories that all circle the same theme: more isn't working. They start with Nick Bloom's latest research on whether working from home helps or hinders mental health, unpicking the tr...
Empowerment Is a Lie — and the Research Backs It Up
Frequency is back with an episode that connects the dots between inauthenticity, artificial intelligence, a shifting workforce, and what bad management really costs. Jenni opens with a few standout takeaways from the Galla...
Silence Isn't Safety: The Burnout Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight
In this episode, Jenni Field and Chuck Gose cover four stories that together paint a picture of organisations still struggling to align how work is designed with what work actually demands — from the disappearing nine-to-f...
The Alignment Gap: Why Leaders and Employees See a Different Workplace
Articles mentioned in this episode: 1️⃣ The AI Paradox: Employees Are Ready, Organisations Are Not 2️⃣ Vibe Coding Built 380,000 Publicly Accessible Apps — Many With Your Company's Data Inside 3️⃣ The Gap Between What Lead...
Respected But Not Credible: The IC Credibility Crisis
Articles mentioned in this episode: 1️⃣ IoIC's IC Index 2️⃣ Credibility gap in internal comms despite high professional esteem 3️⃣ It’s about capability not happiness at work 4️⃣ What if employee frustration was your most ...
Silence Isn't Safety: 88% IC Burnout, CEO Comms Collapse & Meta's Data Grab
News items mentioned in this episode: 1️⃣ Internal Comms Is Absorbing a Crisis It Didn't Create 2️⃣ Better Signals, Less Noise: The State of Workplace Communication 3️⃣ 'New Normal' Prompts New Guidelines for CEO Communica...
Half Feel Engaged Yet Plan to Leave: Bullshit Jobs, the Clarity Crisis and RTO as Stealth Layoffs
In this episode of Frequency, Jenni Field and Chuck Gose dig into four stories that, taken together, make a pretty uncomfortable case: that modern work is increasingly built on theatre and ambiguity. From a personal essay ...
78% Start Motivated. Something Breaks Them: Clarity, IC Courage, and AI's Real Blocker
This week on Frequency, Jenni Field and Chuck Gose look at the data behind why employees lose motivation, the question of whether internal comms has become too comfortable to be useful, and two perspectives on where the re...
$50B Corporate Wellness Market Is Stagnant: BANI, Toxic Culture, and When to Disagree with Your CEO
This week on Frequency, Chuck and Jenni explore why the $50 billion global corporate wellness market has become its only stagnant sector, break down the BANI framework and what it demands from communicators and leaders, de...