{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Beyond the Paycheck","title":"Companies are getting priced out of benefits. Now what?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1486,"description":"Summary\nAmber Little, CHRO at Nation's Best, joins host Kelsey Willock on Beyond the Paycheck to talk about leading the whole human in a fast-growing hardware, home center and lumber business. She traces her people philosophy to a first job at 15 as a dietary aide in a nursing home, where she learned that every role matters and that the value of someone's work is not determined by their title. Amber lays out the five pillars behind her benefits strategy, from physical and financial well-being to the one most companies skip, connection and belonging, and the women's leadership retreat that brings 60 women to a Texas ranch every year. She explains why supporting people enables performance instead of lowering the bar, how she wins C-suite investment when the spreadsheet can't show immediate ROI, a variable co-pay plan that has been harder to land than expected, and what financial health means for an hourly retail workforce aged 18 to 80. Her warning for HR leaders: companies are getting priced out of benefits, and stipends, risk and co-ops may be what comes next. Built for CHROs, total rewards and benefits leaders who want benefits people actually use.\n\nChapters\n00:00 Intro\n00:44 Meet Amber Little, CHRO at Nation's Best\n02:07 A first job at 15 in a nursing home\n03:23 Every role matters, no matter the title\n04:42 The five pillars of whole human benefits\n07:54 Where organizations fall short: connecting the dots\n08:50 Supporting people enables performance\n09:51 Making the case when the spreadsheet can't\n11:10 The variable co-pay experiment\n12:56 How she stays current: SHRM, roundtables and old bosses\n15:08 Financial health for an hourly retail workforce\n18:52 Companies are getting priced out of benefits\n22:12 Whole human leadership and a 52-week journal\n\nTakeaways\n- Adding benefits is not the same as supporting people: if employees don't know what a benefit is, how to access it or what it's worth, it's worthless to them.\n- Whole human benefits rest on five pillars, and...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/JIYEsfsi51sw9dAl9I1QhUhSrAX9V6MCXZ34oR09gz4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80MTA4/NDk4NWM2OTI3Nzk5/Mjk4NzUxN2UyYjI4/NTg1Zi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}