Bonus Episode - Battery Hens, Bullshit & Burnout: HR’s 2025 “You’ve Got to Be F*cking Kidding Me” Year in Review
The Elephant in the Org · 2025-12-17 · 57 min
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Send us Fan Mail BONUS EPISODE — and somehow, our 75th. Your main event today is our conversation with Radhika Dutt , so if you only have time for one episode, go listen to her burn OKRs to the ground first. This bonus drop is the after-party. Now… for everyone still emotionally recovering from HR in 2025, here’s our annual debrief: Battery Hens, Bullshit & Burnout — HR’s 2025 “You’ve Got to Be F*cking Kidding Me” Year in Review. Danny, Marion, and Cacha look back at the most unhinged year HR has seen in decades — the RTO theatre, the DEI backlash, the AI delusion spiral, productivity cosplay, surveillance creep, and burnout so widespread it probably deserves its own ICD medical code. We also celebrate the 23 incredible guests who joined us across The Elephant in the Org and RethinkAbility — a full-on stampede of elephants whose honesty, humour, and humanity kept us going. If you’ve ever stared at a performance management template and thought, “I’m one KPI away from moving to the forest", this episode is your emotional support beverage. Happy Holidays! We will see you again in the new year! Link to Show Notes Got a hot take or a workplace horror story?