Workplace Strategies Watercooler 2023: Ogletree Deakins’ Annual Benchmarking Survey—Headlines and Trends [PODCAST]

This podcast, which was recorded at Ogletree Deakins’ national Workplace Strategies seminar, features a review of the firm’s third annual benchmarking report, Strategies and Benchmarks for the Workplace: Ogletree’s Survey of Key Decision-Makers, which gathered feedback from nearly 1,100 in-house counsel and senior HR professionals. Our speakers, Bud Bobber, chair of the firm’s Manufacturing Practice Group, is joined by Chief Client Services Officer Jim McGrew, and Jenn Betts, who is co-chair of the firm’s Technology Practice Group, highlighted key findings and takeaways from the report, including the top labor and employment challenges for employers. The speakers also noted trends surrounding those challenges, which include hiring and retention, multistate compliance, pay transparency, AI in the workplace, and more.