Episodes

$50B Corporate Wellness Market Is Stagnant: BANI, Toxic Culture, and When to Disagree with Your CEO
FrequencyApril 20, 2026
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00:39:2690.26 MB

$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
FrequencyApril 13, 2026
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00:29:3267.61 MB

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
FrequencyApril 06, 2026
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00:30:1869.35 MB

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
FrequencyMarch 30, 2026
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00:35:1680.74 MB

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
FrequencyMarch 23, 2026
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00:19:2544.45 MB

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
FrequencyMarch 16, 2026
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00:30:0268.74 MB

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
FrequencyMarch 09, 2026
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00:42:5698.29 MB

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
FrequencyMarch 02, 2026
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00:29:5068.3 MB

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
FrequencyFebruary 23, 2026
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00:31:1436.14 MB

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
FrequencyFebruary 16, 2026
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00:38:0787.27 MB

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
FrequencyFebruary 09, 2026
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00:38:2587.96 MB

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
FrequencyFebruary 02, 2026
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00:37:4986.56 MB

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
FrequencyJanuary 26, 2026
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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
FrequencyJanuary 19, 2026
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00:35:4981.98 MB

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...

Simpplr Bonus Episode: 91% Have an Intranet, 55% Have a Mess: Simpplr's Data on Why All-in-One Platforms Win
FrequencyJanuary 15, 2026
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00:38:3388.26 MB

Simpplr Bonus Episode: 91% Have an Intranet, 55% Have a Mess: Simpplr's Data on Why All-in-One Platforms Win

In this special bonus episode of Frequency, Jenni Field and Chuck Gose are joined by Carolyn Clark, VP of Communications and Employee Experience at Simpplr, to dig into the findings from the 2025 State of Internal Communic...

200 to 60 Square Feet: Why Open Offices Cut Space 70% and Face-to-Face Interaction
FrequencyJanuary 12, 2026
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00:30:2669.68 MB

200 to 60 Square Feet: Why Open Offices Cut Space 70% and Face-to-Face Interaction

In the first episode of 2026, Jenni Field and Chuck Gose are back with a candid, wide-ranging conversation about what the world of work really needs to leave behind. They start by sharing the leadership, culture and commun...

25 Hours of Us: The Top 10 Workplace Themes of 2025 and Predictions for 2026
FrequencyDecember 22, 2025
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25 Hours of Us: The Top 10 Workplace Themes of 2025 and Predictions for 2026

In this final episode of 2025, Jenni Field and Chuck Gose reflect on a year of conversations by pulling together the 10 themes that defined work, leadership and internal communication over the past 25 hours and 41 minutes ...

Festivus Traditions, Psychological Safety Savings Account, and Why AI Anxiety Is Just Change
FrequencyDecember 15, 2025
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00:32:4274.85 MB

Festivus Traditions, Psychological Safety Savings Account, and Why AI Anxiety Is Just Change

In this week’s episode of Frequency, Jenni and Chuck explore the forces shaping how we feel at work - from safety and strategy to hybrid rhythms and AI anxiety. They unpack new research showing psychological safety isn’t a...

Die Hard Debate: 90% of UK Workers Disengaged, Human Sustainability, and 18 Days Off
FrequencyDecember 08, 2025
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Die Hard Debate: 90% of UK Workers Disengaged, Human Sustainability, and 18 Days Off

In this episode of Frequency, Jenni and Chuck get stuck into a report-heavy week packed with big questions for communicators, leaders and HR. They explore the UK Government’s RESIST framework for tackling misinformation an...

Live from Nashville: Frontier Firms, Sterilized Communication, and American Portion Sizes
FrequencyDecember 01, 2025
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00:41:2594.83 MB

Live from Nashville: Frontier Firms, Sterilized Communication, and American Portion Sizes

This special live episode of Frequency comes straight from Unily’s Unite25 Conference in Nashville - the first time Jenni Field and Chuck Gose have taken the podcast to the stage. Recorded unedited and unfiltered, they sha...