Episodes
Empowerment Is a Lie: History, Hollow Workdays & Depleted Org Resources
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...
9% vs 27%: The Alignment Crisis, AI's Org Problem & Phones in Locked Pouches
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: Only 30% of IC Pros Can Prove Business Impact
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...
Jargon Lovers Score Worst: AIDR, CFO-Led AI Cuts and the 48-Hour Productivity Cliff
This episode marks one year of Frequency! Jenni Field and Chuck Gose dig into four stories that together reveal a system under pressure: from the psychology of corporate jargon to an emerging reader backlash against AI-gen...
21% Trust Leaders: Kano's Fix, Ineffective Meetings & the Root of Psychological Safety
From the science behind psychological safety to a product development model being applied to the trust crisis, via the ongoing debate about whether meetings count as real work, this is an episode full of practical framewor...
60% Want a Layoff: Career Dysmorphia, AI Brain Fry & the Reciprocity Gap
In Episode 50, Jenni Field and Chuck Gose are back together — Jenni returning from a trip to Japan and Chuck recording live from Las Vegas during Transform — to dig into four stories shaping the future of work, careers, an...
Uber CEO Will Push You Out, Cracker Barrel's Leaked Memo Backfires & 67% of HR Pros Have No Career Path
Jenni Field is away this week, so Chuck Gose goes solo covering four stories that all, in different ways, come back to the same question: what does leadership actually communicate about how much it values its people? Uber ...
Culture Talk Destroys Trust: 72% Fail, AI Agents, PDFs & Dorsey's 40% Cuts
This week Jenni Field and Chuck Gose cover four stories dominating the workplace conversation right now — from whether AI is truly transforming organisations or just repeating history's mistakes, to why the more you talk a...
Staples Baddie vs McDonald's CEO: 4 IC Reports & the Authenticity Gap
Staples Baddie vs McDonald's CEO: 4 IC Reports & the Authenticity Gap This week Jenni Field and Chuck Gose tackle four reports on the state of internal communications — but not before stopping to examine two wildly dif...
49% Have Never Used AI at Work: IBM's Counter-Bet and Gartner's 2028 Chatbot Prediction
In this episode of Frequency, Jenni Field and Chuck Gose dig into the growing gap between AI ambition and workplace reality — from a company quietly doing the opposite of everyone else, to predictions that stretch credibil...
Culture Isn't a Cause, It's a Description: Why Behavior Change Beats Culture Workshops
In this episode of Frequency, Jenni Field and Chuck Gose dig into four thought-provoking topics shaping the world of work right now — from how old your company is to whether organisational culture actually exists. Chuck ki...
Home Depot's Second RTO Mandate in 12 Months Why 90% Can't Use AI (But Half Think They Can) and Only 1 in 4 Feel Appreciated
In this week's episode, Jenni and Chuck unpack the uncomfortable truth behind repeated workplace policies, the widening AI proficiency gap, and why simple acts of appreciation remain the most overlooked retention strategy....
72% Use AI Without Training: PRSA's ICE Silence and Amazon's 16,000 Layoffs by Email
In this episode of Frequency, Jenni Field and Chuck Gose start with a deceptively simple question: where are all the good industry events? That conversation quickly opens up a wider reflection on whether the internal comms...
76% Burnout Persists While 92% Invest in AI: Why Happy Hour's Dead but Busy Work's Not
In this episode of Frequency, Jenni Field and Chuck Gose kick things off with a surprisingly revealing conversation about bread — and quickly land on a much bigger question: when recognition misses the point, what does it ...
60% of Millennials Disengaged: The 30% Gap in What Leaders Call 'Good Communication
In this episode of Frequency, Jenni Field and Chuck Gose kick off 2026 with a frank check-in on how the year is going — personally and professionally — before diving into a stack of research that reveals just how disconnec...
92% Increasing AI Investment, Only 1% Actually Mature: Amazon's Badge Tracking Problem
In this episode of Frequency, Jenni Field and Chuck Gose explore the quiet pressures tightening around modern work - from burnout and broken flexibility promises to the unintended consequences of AI “efficiency”. The episo...