Chuck Gose and Jenni Field open with the rise of going shoeless at the office before digging into “quiet promotions,” Culture Amp data on keeping teams on track after layoffs, UK job ad data showing hybrid expectations quietly tightening, and insights from a senior internal comms roundtable Jenni hosted in London.
Recording ahead of a packed October of conferences and speaking events, Chuck Gose and Jenni Field dig into Axios reporting on chief communications officers absorbing ever more corporate functions, LinkedIn data showing fewer workers want to become managers, Gen Z’s shrinking entry-level job market, and TIME’s case for teaching leaders real emotion regulation.
Chuck Gose and Jenni Field revisit the debate over merging CHRO and CIO roles five months after first raising it, weigh whether humor has a real place in internal comms, preview a December book challenging the future of the profession, and dig into new research from the Institute of Leadership on what’s actually on leaders’ minds.
Chuck Gose and Jenni Field open with the fat cat of Santorini and a new personality-type label before digging into data showing return-to-office mandates function as a “retention tax,” Gallup’s five dependable levers of employee engagement, research on post-pandemic personality shifts, the Netherlands’ near-standard four-day week, and the workplace trauma response known as “fawning.”
Chuck Gose and Jenni Field settle the “pod” debate once and for all before turning to a productive stretch of Jenni’s reading: Harvard Business Review pieces on achieving DEI goals without formal DEI programs and how the busiest people find joy, new research on “digital silence” and always-on culture, and a sneak preview of the UK’s 2025 IC Index from Ipsos Karian and Box.
Jenni Field challenges LinkedIn’s culture of negativity and sets herself and Chuck Gose a positivity challenge, before the pair dig into Nestlé’s CEO dismissal, Korn Ferry’s data on thinning management layers, The Economist’s take on whether remote work kills culture, and new research on the mental health “benefits gap” at work.
Chuck Gose and Jenni Field each build their own top-five reading list for communicators, then turn to London’s Tube strike as a lens on employee relations and unions, what Opendoor’s CEO resignation reveals about leadership visibility, a LinkedIn debate on whether video actually works for internal comms, and fresh insights from Gallup’s Culture Shock.
Recording from a New York hotel room, Chuck Gose and Jenni Field triple down on AI this week — Duolingo’s “AI-first” messaging misstep, an MIT report on failing corporate AI pilots, and the rising risk of AI data poisoning — before turning to fresh evidence that remote work is holding up better than executive office mandates, and revisiting the evergreen question of where internal comms should report.
Marking their 20th episode, Chuck Gose and Jenni Field dig into why workplace communication feels so noisy, whether attention spans are really getting worse, what actually makes an all-employee meeting worth attending, and a sharper-edged theory about CEOs, Gen Z, and the end of “we matter at work” messaging.
Chuck Gose and Jenni Field debate whether a viral “potty sheet” is really the gold standard of frontline communication, dig into AT&T’s dismissive response to employee feedback on return-to-office, weigh a UK council’s decision to turn a retiring employee into an AI chatbot, and unpack research on how perceived effort shapes trust in B2B marketing — and what that means for internal comms.
Chuck Gose and Jenni Field announce Frequency’s first live episode, at Unite in Nashville this October, before digging into Gallup data on why managers globally are so disengaged, a Harvard Business Review piece questioning whether hybrid work is really working, a Japanese manufacturer’s unusual internal economy for meeting rooms, and a large new Staffbase study on internal communication, trust, and loneliness at work.
Chuck Gose and Jenni Field open with their take on the week’s most talked-about workplace story — the Astronomer CEO caught on a Coldplay concert’s camera with the company’s chief HR officer — before turning to whether communicators are too quick to judge, what Dell’s blunt employee-feedback results reveal about rebuilding trust, and why return-to-office mandates may have more to do with real estate than culture.
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