Welcome to the Spotify HR Blog! Our company is changing the world, all while growing at hyper speed. In order for us to stay ahead, both our people and the company must develop faster than the world changes. This puts very special demands on us, the HR department, to create that environment where a diverse […]
Taking Sustainability To The Next Level
When thinking about corporate sustainability, you may tend to think about physical products and manufacturing, or labor-intense supply chains in developing countries. Spotify is neither, so why does sustainability matter to us? Well, to begin with we have an impact on the world around us, both environmentally and socially. This impact is not insignificant today […]
Introducing HR Over The Counter, a Spotify HR podcast
While we experience a major upheaval at work, and within HR, the expectation is that numerous physical events will continue to be cancelled, meaning the online industry specific content continues to boom. And we’re beyond ready to be part of that. Based on 2020’s HR The Real Deal Video On Demand series, Spotify HR is […]
2021: Onwards and upwards, my friends
I began last year with a post titled “Bring it, 2020, we are ready for you!”, and oh boy, didn’t 2020 bring it? I made some predictions on areas I thought we’d all get tired of hearing about before we did our mental closing of 2020, but Covid-19 certainly wasn’t one of them. 2020 was […]
Growth is our Mantra
In looking back at this year and trying to wrap it up, we realise how much learning has been happening…and not only related to core job-skills. A lot of the learning has come out of a necessity to adapt to changing circumstances, of working in the home office – either with a bunch of ‘new […]
How To Get A Job At Spotify
Anyone that has searched for a job knows there are countless ‘how to’ guides, books and articles on how to land that dream job. For some, this is a precise and targeted process, meaning you may have shortlisted companies you’d like to explore. If one of those companies is Spotify, you are one of 60,000 […]
How to keep moving on your Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging journey
45 days in as the new Head of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging. What a great opportunity to reflect back on Spotify’s journey in this area and let those thoughts guide our hypothesis of what needs to be done to further transform our work. There are questions we need to answer in parallel with developing our […]
Spotify’s People Strategy
Recently I was recording a video for HR The Real Deal’s series of VODs (Videos On Demand), and Human Capital Europe, where the interviewer, Anne-Marie Andric, asked me about Spotify’s People Strategy. It was great to be able to explain the strategy as a complete package. The work that the entire HR team at Spotify […]
Use your curiosity, not AI
Let’s start with the obvious: why on earth would anyone use AI (Artificial Intelligence) to understand how to tailor rewards? You might think there’s an obvious answer to that, but hear me out! I often find myself having a ‘facepalm moment’ when time-after-time salespeople contact me insisting that the solutions they offer use advanced tech […]
Introducing SpotOn!, a Spotify HR podcast
Provoking and transforming the status quo can have serious and profound consequences, and we can all agree that challenging cultural norms is one of the most powerful yet tricky acts out there. Along with this desire to challenge the norm for positive impact, over the last couple of years, I’ve also had the opportunity to […]
Dynamic workplaces: the time is now!
It’s a busy, but exciting, time for architects and office designers working at organisations all over the world. I know I don’t just speak for myself and my role at Spotify when I say that for some time now, we’ve been exploring with our stakeholders (namely Finance and HR departments) what the future of the […]