{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Beyond the Paycheck","title":"How Langan kept hybrid while its competitors pulled everyone back","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1737,"description":"Summary\nIn this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey Willock Jones sits down with Donovan Mattole, CHRO at Langan Engineering & Environmental Services, a global firm of engineers, scientists, and archaeologists working in over 100 countries. Donovan explains why Langan pays straight-time overtime to every individual contributor, lets employees bank a week of it as comp time, and kept its hybrid schedule while competitors in the billable-hour consulting world pulled everyone back to the office. He also shares how a 15-year-old wellbeing committee staffed by company owners changed the CHRO's job from selling wellbeing to delivering it, why posted core values should create friction, and what HR leaders should expect from a generation that wants flexibility. This conversation is for CHROs, people leaders, and benefits professionals thinking about total rewards as more than a paycheck.\n\nChapters\n00:00 Intro\n01:15 Donovan's background and falling into HR\n02:30 Langan's workforce of engineers, scientists, and archaeologists\n04:30 Growing up off the grid and a first paycheck spent on flight lessons\n06:30 A holistic view of what employees get from a company\n07:45 Straight-time overtime and the comp time week\n10:15 Why Langan kept hybrid in a billable-hour business\n11:15 Answering the spreadsheet on the cost of flexibility\n12:45 A wellbeing committee staffed by owners\n15:00 Core values that employees quote back to leadership\n17:00 Local community impact and employee resource groups\n19:15 Financial wellbeing and the opportunity to do more\n21:15 Peer networks and the civil engineering shortage\n25:45 The flexibility shift HR leaders are not ready for\n27:15 Dust off your core values\n\nTakeaways\n- Langan pays straight-time overtime to every individual contributor from hour 40, regardless of degree, and lets them bank up to a week of it as comp time, giving new grads about five weeks off in year one.\n- Langan kept a hybrid schedule in a billable-hour business by holding...","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}