COVID-19 affects everyone and now, more than ever, mental health needs to be a top priority. Those of us who’ve experienced trauma or a mental health problem in the past or who have a long-term physical health condition – we’re even more vulnerable to the dramatic toll this pandemic can have on our mental health. […]
Our experiences in the past few weeks have probably been similar to yours – like we’re all part of a giant experiment. From one day to the next our reality changed, and our entire band instantly started working from home. And just like that, our biggest challenges became finding the best ways of working in […]
These are unprecedented times for everyone around the world and the way we work has been turned upside down for all of us. There is no playbook for COVID-19, and this pandemic has been the ultimate test of everyone’s solidarity and resolve at Spotify. This is also the time when our company values of collaboration, […]
Sharing our take Back in 2015 when we launched our Lead On Leave initiative, the Global Parental Leave Program, we knew we were on to something. Since then, the interest in the Spotify People perspective has increased to such a degree that we have had to split the world between three of us to be […]
Six culture pegs that might stress you out in 2020 My love for culture work never seems to fade and new trends continue to arise in this space. But are they really shiny new truths or are just old common knowledge in new packaging? Whatever the case, there are a couple of areas I predict […]
A couple of months ago, Spotify’s global HR Team gathered together for two days in Stockholm, Sweden for our annual HR Summit. This year’s theme was “Dare to Disrupt”. We’d like to share some insight on why this was such an important theme for us this year. As a united HR Team, we are in […]
Blog post by Robert Käck, Head of Culture, together with Gary Munro, HR Insights Director. This summer, a couple of us attended the Culture First conference in San Francisco. It was two full days of keynotes, breakouts, and activations around the topic of building a better workplace. We could clearly see three main trends of […]
We have made quite the journey in our people analytics work over the past years.
Closing the gap for women in creative arts and media As we were setting up our plans for International Women’s Day this year, we saw a huge gap right here in one of our own domains: There is not enough light shone on the circumstances for women in creative arts and media. We were part […]
Co-blogger: Preeti Singh The LinkedIn Talent Connect Conference Every year LinkedIn hosts Talent Connect conference – an event that aims to bring HR-professionals from across the globe together for a couple of days to be inspired, network and discuss what the future of work will look like. This year, a couple of us from the […]
