Phoebe Harrington / Chief Human Resources Officer
Perspectives from a life in leadership.
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Employers building the new grid are tempted to recruit coal station workers as early as they can. I argue that start dates should follow the closure, that new employers should pay for skills assessment while people are still employed and that the waiting cost belongs in the builder's budget.
Read the essayEmployers building the new grid are tempted to recruit coal station workers as early as they can. I argue that start dates should follow the closure, that new employers should pay for skills assessment while people are still employed and that the waiting cost belongs in the builder's budget.
Transmission builders tend to treat landholder hostility as a communications problem for the network owner. I argue it is a psychosocial hazard for the employer whose staff stand at the gate, and that schedule pressure is what turns it from unpleasant into harmful.
Energy employers guard the right to extend offshore and remote rosters as essential operational flexibility. I argue that, in remote work, the roster is the core of the employment bargain and should be changed only through a joint process advised by fatigue evidence, even though that costs money.