{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Beyond the Paycheck","title":"Two Simple Fixes That Finally Reached a Deskless Workforce","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1248,"description":"Summary\nWhat keeps employees at a company when a competitive paycheck is just the starting point? In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey Willock Jones sits down with Corinna Carbone-Stephens, Chief People Officer at VLS Environmental Solutions, to unpack how a labor-intensive company with 52+ locations and a 73% hourly workforce supports the whole person. Corinna shares her journey from journalism in Italy's oil and gas industry to the C-suite in Houston, why VLS built its leadership development and mentorship programs entirely in house, her candid struggle to drive participation in stellar financial wellness benefits, and the two simple fixes, dual-language communication and text-message delivery, that transformed engagement with a deskless workforce. A must-listen for HR leaders rethinking retention, benefits, and the human side of growth.\n\nChapters\n00:00 Introduction and welcome\n03:05 Inside VLS Environmental Solutions: 52+ locations and a 73% hourly workforce\n04:05 First job and first paycheck: from journalism to HR\n06:15 Taking a holistic approach to the whole person\n07:15 Building leadership development and mentorship in house\n09:30 Making the business case when the spreadsheet doesn't show it\n10:55 The financial wellness struggle: stellar benefits, low participation\n13:30 Language and phones: reaching the deskless workforce\n15:05 Staying current on AI and HR innovation\n16:50 The change most HR leaders are not ready for\n\nTakeaways\n- Growth has replaced the paycheck as the real retention lever. Employees stay when they can see a future with the organization and are given the tools to be successful.\n- Leadership is not universal. Effective leadership development has to be aligned to the business, the industry, and the example set by the executive team, which is why VLS built its program internally with no consultants.\n- Even stellar financial wellness benefits fail on participation when employees fear starting the conversation about money....","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}