Today we're heading to Utah in the United States and a little south of Salt Lake City. In fact, we're heading to the city of Saratoga Springs on the Northwestern shores of Utah Lake, visiting Mr. Tom Applegarth.

Tom has over 30 years of HR experience, including serving in high-profile companies such as Goodyear tires, Payless Shoes, AMACO, Belden, Potter Electric, and Young Living, and you've probably identified that this spans multiple industries, manufacturing, retail, as well as several Fortune 500 companies.

Tom has worked across the United States as well as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, and his considerable experience has brought significant measurable improvements in employee engagement, attrition reduction, recruitment of the best and the brightest employees, and establishment of high-impact HR processes and improvements.

Tom currently works for Preferred CFO, Preferred CFO provides finance, accounting, HR, and payroll support for small companies. This conversation with

Tom was a lot of fun, and I got to play devil's advocate and challenge the HR industry about how well they're handling the workforce shift from traditional offices to working from home, where who knows what employee shenanigans are going on behind the privacy of the household walls during work time, and of course, the question of how prepared are we as leaders for when the first work-from-home accident case finds its way into the courts, a lot of hypotheticals and "what ifs."

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