{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Parenting at Work","title":"Building Benefits That Actually Work for Your Workforce","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1724,"description":"Summary\nMost organizations diagnose low benefits adoption as a communication failure. Amrita Bhaumik, VP of HR at Team Car Care — one of the largest Jiffy Lube franchisees, operating over 450 stores — has a harder diagnosis: the programs were never designed for the people being asked to use them. One-size-fits-all benefits are a budget choice. The workforce paying for that choice is the one that doesn't work at a desk.\nBefore Team Car Care, Amrita served as CHRO at Valvoline Global Operations, where she drove a uniform parental leave policy across nearly 30 countries regardless of local legal minimums. In this conversation with host Lindsey Topping-Schuetz, she shares the data-driven strategy she used to move executives, the \"meeting before the meeting\" tactic that earns leadership ownership before the formal room, and the single question that has shaped her approach to culture for two decades.\n\nTimestamps\n00:00 Amrita's path from Valvoline CHRO to VP of HR at Team Car Care\n01:00 People leadership philosophy: enabling growth through culture and environment\n04:00 Year-one priority: building strong leaders at 450 Jiffy Lube stores\n05:30 The frontline benefits problem: reactive workers and programs that don't fit\n07:00 How benefits and caregiving have changed across the automotive industry\n09:00 Lindsey's personal story: seven years out of the workforce and what she needed to return\n12:00 The birthday rule, mom guilt, and co-opting her daughter into work decisions\n17:00 Building a uniform parental leave policy across 30 countries at Valvoline\n21:00 Culture is built on the hardest day, not the best one\n\nTakeaways\nIf frontline workers aren't using your benefits, the problem is design, not awareness. Build programs for the life stage and schedule of the employees you actually employ.\nEquip frontline managers first. They are the most direct channel between a benefits program and the employee who needs it — coach them to have the conversation before the portal ever...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Xuk_bBiG6j3JtB5Arbb67-xPOyZS4LiSd5Jx6gnqEwY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wOWE3/ZGNlODU4ZTc5ZjQw/NDM3ZjhmODUxZThj/MmE0My5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}