Podcasts about nowhere office

Julia Hobsbawm is joined by David Marks and Jason Blank, the co-founders of Brockton Everlast, the company behind Fora, the flexible workplace provider.  Recorded at Fora's building on Soho's Broadwick Street, they discuss how mixing “workboots and wingtips”, building expertise and business acumen, has shaped their approach to building a better future of work. They also explore property development, the ascendence of small businesses, and how smart, human-centred buildings are reshaping cities. The conversation also marks the launch of The Fora Institute of Work. The Nowhere Office is a Fully Connected production in partnership with Sandstone Global Productions. Music by Julian Brezon. Discover more at workathon.io. Links: Recorded at Soho Radio: https://sohoradiolondon.com/ Fora: https://www.foraspace.com/ ⁠Brockton Everlast: https://www.brocktoneverlast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on The Nowhere Office, hosts Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern speak with journalist, author, and broadcaster Rachel Johnson for another addition of My Working Life in a conversation about her unconventional career journey Rachel shares how she broke into journalism as the Financial Times' first female trainee, the early mistakes she learned from, and how she built a career on her own terms.  She talks about the challenges of balancing working motherhood with her own ambitions, and why her time at the UK Foreign Office left her frustrated.  The episode also explores her latest project — the Tortoise investigative podcast Master — which looks into the allegations against author Neil Gaiman. Rachel explains what drove her to pursue this complex story and what the experience taught her about the power of persistence and purpose in working life. The Nowhere Office is a Fully Connected Production in partnership with Sandstone Global Productions. Music by Julian Brezon. Learn more at workathon.io. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How is AI transforming the workplace and what does it mean for employment law? In this episode of The Nowhere Office, host Julia Hobsbawm visits the Bankside offices of Lewis Silkin LLP to speak with James Davies, Senior Employment Partner, about the legal implications of artificial intelligence in hiring, AI regulation, and the future of legal work.  How is AI being used in recruitment and employment decisions?  What AI-specific tools like Harvey are changing legal practice?  How are governments and regulators addressing AI in employment law?  Will AI replace lawyers? As AI reshapes industries, HR professionals, employers, and legal experts need to stay ahead of evolving AI legislation and workplace trends. Tune in for an expert perspective on how AI is changing the legal landscape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode of The Nowhere Office focuses on the United State of Work report, featuring an in-depth conversation with Brian Elliott, a contributor to the report and a leading voice in the future of work. Brian is the CEO of Work Forward, co-founder of Future Forum, and author of How the Future Works. With 25 years of experience at Google and Slack, he offers firsthand insights into corporate America's shifts and sheds light on: What's really driving return-to-office mandates The persistence of command-and-control management Corporate leadership's resistance to change The political context behind the DEI backlash stemming from the Trump administration You'll also hear insights from other United State of Work contributors, including: Peter Miscovich Floré Pradère Virginie Raphael Vicky Pryce Melissa Fisher Phil Kirschner Read the full United State of Work report at Workathon.io. The Nowhere Office is a Fully Connected Production in partnership with Sandstone Global Productions. Music by Julian Brezon. Discover more at Workathon.io. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern are joined by John Bond, founder and executive director of Whitefox Publishing, and Toby Mundy, literary agent and former publisher, to explore and evaluate the business of publishing. Toby reflects on his career, from founding Atlantic Books, now as a literary agent and serving as Executive Director of the Baillie Gifford Prize. Against the backdrop of the London Book Fair, they discuss how shifts at book fairs reflect broader industry changes. Toby and John offer an insider's view of the publishing business, from its ongoing challenges to the role of commissioning editors, where the money is, and what makes a book a success. Julia also sits down with Hannah Bickerton, the new Managing Director of Whitefox, to discuss book marketing in an evolving industry and the potential role of AI in publishing's future. This episode is brought to you in association with Whitefox, exceptional publishers for exceptional stories. Learn more at wearewhitefox.com. The Nowhere Office is a Fully Connected Production in partnership with Sandstone Global Productions. Music by Julian Brezon. Discover more at workathon.io. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern talk to Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman of Ogilvy about his working life. Rory shares anecdotes from a career in advertising and lessons from behavioural science.  The Nowhere Office is a Fully Connected Production brought to you in association with Sandstone Global Productions. Music by Julian Brezon. Find out more at thenowhereoffice.com and sandstoneglobal.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of The Nowhere Office, we bring together three experts with very different perspectives on work to explore how we measure it, how we experience it, and how workplaces are changing. What is productivity, and why does it matter? Professor Dame Diane Coyle, economist and Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, joins Stefan to discuss why productivity is such a tricky thing to measure what GDP can and can't tell us. These ideas will be explored more in Diane's forthcoming book, The Measure of Progress. (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Measure-Progress-Counting-Really-Matters/dp/0691179026). There is also a cameo from Sophie from Romania, of internet fame. Dr. Melissa Fisher is a cultural anthropologist at NYU and Parsons, who has studied Wall Street's culture and is now looking at the future of work. She shares insights into how work is shaped not just by numbers but by history, habits, and human behaviour. Phil Kirschner, workplace consultant and strategist, helps companies rethink their workplaces and manage the huge wave of change. The Nowhere Office is a Fully Connected Production in association with Sandstone Global Productions. Music by Julian Brezon. Learn more at Workathon.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For this My Working Life edition of the Nowhere Office, Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern are joined by Sam McAlister, the former Newsnight producer best known for securing the game-changing interview with Prince Andrew. She shares details of her background from working-class childhood to criminal barrister and her jump into TV. She talks about the joys of her newfound autonomy and the relentless hustle required to make it all work.  Sam takes us behind the scenes of TV news and gives her take on the pernicious role of class in the workplace.  The Nowhere Office is a Fully Connected Production in association with Sandstone Global Productions. Music by Julian Brezon. Learn more at workathon.io. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern are joined by John Bond, founder of Whitefox Publishing to discuss the business of publishing.  We hear about how the industry has changed since the 1980s and 1990s when huge advances were handed out at the drop of a hat and books were acquired on professional instinct. That's been replaced by data-driven metrics and a clearer understanding of what consumers want. The episode provides advice for anyone looking to have a book published, explaining the current market, the steps involved and the roles that agents play. The episode features clips for Rebecca Frayn's novel Lost in Ibiza and Emily Ross and Alastair Crowl's Just Evil Enough. Both are published by Whitefox. This episode is brought to you in association with Whitefox—exceptional publishers for exceptional stories. Learn more at wearewhitefox.com. The Nowhere Office is a Fully Connected Production in partnership with Sandstone Global Productions. Music by Julian Brezon. Discover more at workathon.io. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of The Nowhere Office, Stefan Stern and Julia Hobsbawm discuss leadership with Barbara Kellerman. Our My Working Life feature is an interview with American union organiser Jaz Brisack, who has been involved with movements at Nissan, Starbucks, and Tesla. This episode covers: Tulip Siddiq's resignation and what it reveals about the challenges facing the workplace that is 10 Downing Street An interview with Barbara Kellerman, founding member of the Harvard Kennedy School, about her latest book Leadership from Bad to Worse: What Happens When Bad Festers Reflections on Donald Trump's inauguration and his anti-establishment leadership style The abundance of bad leaders, from politics to business, and the important role of followers Declining trust in once-revered institutions Dissatisfaction with capitalism in the United States Luigi Mangione and the killing of Brian Thompson The styles of business leaders like Elizabeth Holmes and Elon Musk. The Nowhere Office is a Fully Connected Production in partnership with Sandstone Global Productions. Music by Julian Brezon. Discover more at workathon.io. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julia Hobsbawm interviews Syreeta Brown, Group Chief People & Communications Officer at Virgin Money. They explore the huge changes that have taken place in the workforce in recent years, whether those changes can be unravelled and discuss how ripping up the rule book can help to get, grow and retain great talent.  Also featured is a clip from an upcoming interview with Barbara Kellerman, renowned leadership writer and academic. She discusses the upcoming inauguration of President Trump, likening his bombastic style to that of a prizefighter. The Nowhere Office is a Fully Connected Production in partnership with Sandstone Global Productions. Music by Julian Brezon. Discover more at workathon.io. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a tribute to a dear friend of The Nowhere Office, Charles Handy, the management writer, who died this week aged 92. Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern are joined by the FT's Andrew Hill to discuss Handy's life and legacy, his extremely sharp predictions about work, the humanism at the heart of his thinking, and his unconventional practices like ‘empty chair' exercises. We have included an interview with Charles Handy from the very first episode of The Nowhere Office. In this episode's My Working Life segment, Indrani Sen, Features Editor at Fortune Magazine, tells us about journalism on 9/11 in New York, the sheer fun of her job, anxiety in legacy media, and a possible career shift. This sponsored feature is brought to you in association with Whitefox—exceptional publishers for exceptional stories. Learn more at wearewhitefox.com. The Nowhere Office is a Fully Connected Production in partnership with Sandstone Global Productions. Music by Julian Brezon. Discover more at workathon.io. Books mentioned in the episode: By Charles Handy: The Gods of Management: The Changing Work of Organizations (OUP, 1979) The Age of Unreason: New Thinking for a New World (Random House Business, 1989) The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future (Random House Business, 1995) The Elephant and the Flea: New Thinking for a New World (Random House Business, 2002) The Second Curve: Thoughts on Reinventing Society (Random House Business, 2015).  Also mentioned:  Dan Davies, The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind (Profile Books, 2024).  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julia Hobsbawm speaks with Peter Miscovich, Executive Managing Director and Global Future of Work Leader at JLL, to explore the past, present, and future of offices around the world. They discuss the tech transformations in workplaces, quantum computing on the horizon and the massive changes in the past 50 years of work.  In this episode's My Working Life segment, we hear from Birgitte Stoerger of AuPairCare. With years of experience matching au pairs with families, Birgitte shares the joys of her work and the challenges faced by Au Pairs navigating a new life in the US.  This sponsored feature is brought to you in association with Whitefox—exceptional publishers for exceptional stories. Learn more at wearewhitefox.com. The Nowhere Office is a Fully Connected Production in partnership with Sandstone Global Productions. Music by Julian Brezon. Discover more at workathon.io. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For this My Working Life edition of the Nowhere Office, Julia Hobsbawm is joined by Iain Dale to discuss his career as a broadcaster, author, publisher, editor, lobbyist and much more. This week's My Working Life segment features Olivia Alexander, a SoulCycle instructor. Olivia shares how the pandemic disrupted her musical theatre career and how SoulCycle has not only "filled her cup" but also helped her navigate grief. This sponsored feature is brought to you by Whitefox—exceptional publishers for exceptional stories. Discover more at wearewhitefox.com. The Nowhere Office is a Fully Connected Production in association with Sandstone Global Productions. Music by Julian Brezon. Learn more at workathon.io. Also mentioned in the episode: Our Brain Bank: ourbrainbank.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this News from Nowhere, we bring you a conversation from a recent Workathon event in London: How the Media Works. Ravi Mattu, managing editor of The New York Times' DealBook, and Matthew D'Ancona, editor of The New European, joined Julia Hobsbawm to discuss the state of the media. Stefan Stern talks to journalist Carole Cadwalladr about the Tortoise-Observer deal. Carole shares candid views on paywalled versus free journalism and what she describes as the breathtaking arrogance and contempt of The Guardian's management. In this week's My Working Life, Jess is disappointed in the work ethic of younger colleagues and tells us about hospitality at 30,000 feet. The Nowhere Office is a Fully Connected Production, in association with Sandstone Global Productions. Music by Julian Brezon. This episode's sponsored feature is brought to you by Whitefox—exceptional publishers for exceptional stories. Learn more at wearewhitefox.com. For more information, visit workathon.io. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of The Nowhere Office, Julia Hobsbawm is joined by author and speaker Terence Mauri to discuss his new book The Upside of Disruption: The Path to Leading and Thriving in the Unknown. Terence explores the risks of standing still in an age of rapid change and shares how a serious accident reshaped his career and perspective. The conversation covers warm and cold AI, future readiness, and his philosophy of reduction. This week's My Working Life features Declan Hogan, CFO of O'Dwyer Steel, who discusses the business of building. This sponsored feature is brought to you by Whitefox—exceptional publishers for exceptional stories. Discover more at wearewhitefox.com. The Nowhere Office is a Fully Connected Production, in association with Sandstone Global Productions. Music by Julian Brezon. Find out more at workathon.io. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of The Nowhere Office, Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern welcome leadership coach and author Tiffany Gaskell, who has updated Sir John Whitmore's classic Coaching for Performance for its sixth edition. Since it was first published, the book has sold over one million copies. They explore coaching's origins in sports, the evolution of leadership styles, the impact of the pandemic on leadership, and whether AI could disrupt traditional coaching models. This week's My Working Life features Tony Michael from the Village Garage. He and Julia discuss his long career as a mechanic, being a one-man band, and why he never became a pilot.  The Nowhere Office is a Fully Connected Production in association with Sandstone Global Productions.  Music by Julian Brezon. Find out more at workathon.io  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of The Nowhere Office, Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern dive into Google's new AI NotebookLM, debate Big Tech's increasingly inhuman approach to innovation, and explore the lasting influence of management guru Peter Drucker.  This week's My Working Life features a conversation with Bobby Healy, the founder of pioneering drone delivery service Manna, and Rory Sutherland, renowned ad-man and unlikely Tik-Tok star. The Nowhere Office is a Fully Connected Production, in association with Sandstone Global Productions. Music by Julian Brezon. Find out more at workathon.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In an addition to the regular Nowhere Office theme-led show is now a weekly episode looking at the headlines affecting the world of work. To kick off our additional show this week Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern are joined by Bloomberg's Irina Anghel to talk about the impact of Donald Trump's re-election as President of the United States on work, working life and workers. The Nowhere Office is a Fully Connected Production brought to you in association with Sandstone Global Productions. Music by Julian Brezon. Find out more at workathon.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode of The Nowhere Office, fresh off the UK government's budget announcement, Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern welcome economist Vicky Pryce. They delve into the Economy of Work, exploring workforce inactivity and persistent challenges to productivity, with a special focus on the overlooked challenges faced by women in the workforce and the economic cost of prisons.  In our My Working Life segment, meet an entrepreneurial couple who run a cutting-edge retreat in the Bavarian Alps—one of whom sees himself as the “Winston Wolf” of tech. This sponsored feature is brought to you in association with Whitefox, exceptional publishers for exceptional stories. Discover more at wearewhitefox.com. The Nowhere Office is a Fully Connected Production in association with Sandstone Global Productions. Music by Julian Brezon. Learn more at Workathon.io and https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thenowhereoffice/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of The Nowhere Office, Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern discuss hot topics in the world of work. They consider how McDonalds and restaurant tips have become political footballs in the US election and debate the appointment of Mariella Frostrup as Menopause Employment Ambassador in the UK.   Tom Redmayne of Industrious, a flex workspace giant, is in the studio to discuss the offices of today and tomorrow, our changing cityscapes and his fears about burgeoning debts in the corporate real estate market.    Plus, in the 'My Working Life' segment, we meet Rob and hear about his hattrick of careers, in association with White Fox Publishing: https://wearewhitefox.com/.   The Nowhere Office is a Fully Connected Production brought to you in association with Sandstone Global Productions.    Music by Julian Brezon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of The Nowhere Office, Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern grapple with tensions at the UK's recent Investment Summit including the fallout from Louise Haigh's comments about P&O Ferries and DP World. They ask pressing questions about the world of work: How can governments be pro-business and pro-worker? Is legislation the answer to rapid changes in AI? What impact will a much-anticipated National Insurance hike have on employers?  We've got expert guests from the world of food tech; &Dine Chairman Guy Strafford and CEO Max Bennett tell us about the changing role of food in the workplace. Plus, in our My Working Life segment, we meet Meghan, a passionately political New Yorker who has turned her side hustle into a full-time business. The Nowhere Office is a Fully Connected Production brought to you in association with Sandstone Global Productions. Music by Julian Brezon. Find out more at thenowhereoffice.com and sandstoneglobal.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On The Nowhere Office, Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern dive into the essential news from the world of work, covering the UK Government's new employment plan, the dockworkers' strike and union power in the US, and return-to-office mandates from the likes of Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.  Julia channels her inner Kemi Badenoch and Stefan offers sage advice from the world of management. Also joining the conversation is Sue Duke of LinkedIn who sounds the alarm about a growing shortage of skilled workers, which could stop us reaching Net Zero.  On the streets of New York, we meet Michael, a young computer science graduate delivering Amazon packages. That's our sponsored feature My Working Life, brought to you in association with Whitefox: Exceptional publishers for exceptional stories. Find out more at www.wearewhitefox.com The Music is Amaru by Julian Brezon.  The Nowhere Office is Fully Connected Production brought to you in association with SandStone Global Productions.  https://thenowhereoffice.com/ https://www.sandstoneglobal.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We begin a brand new series this spring with the wisdom and optimism of one of the great legends in HR practice, strategy, and thought leadership: Josh Bersin. Josh is often cited as one of the leading HR and workplace industry analysts in the world. Most recently, Bersin launched the Josh Bersin Academy, the world's first global development academy for HR and talent professionals at all levels and across all industries. You can listen to the beginning of this interview and then head for more content and additional material to The Nowhere Office with Julia Hobsbawm on Substack.

The hybrid world has upended traditional norms around the role of the office. Author Julia Hobsbawm joins the Talent Angle to discuss how talent management leaders can apply the insights from her book, “The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future,” to take advantage of the emerging opportunities created by hybrid ways of working. Hobsbawm argues we are in a new era of work — marked by unclear boundaries and changing attitudes — and she shares advice on what organizations should do as they continue to shape the role of the office in this new era. She looks to the past at how earlier innovations in knowledge work changed offices and to the future at how physical spaces will support employees in sustained performance.   Julia Hobsbawm is an award-winning business author and futurist of work who writes the “Working Assumptions” column for Bloomberg's Work Shift. The author of the acclaimed book “The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future,” she was a founder of the U.S.-led Workforce Institute, was chair of the inaugural U.K. Demos Workshift Commission, and now co-hosts the popular podcast, “The Nowhere Office.” Julia is the author of six books, including the award-winning “The Simplicity Principle,” and she was awarded an OBE in the late Queen Elizabeth II's Birthday Honours List in 2015 for services to business. She regularly consults for and speaks to corporations, governments and changemakers around the world.   Jessica Knight is a vice president of research in the Gartner HR practice. She leads research teams to identify best practices and new opportunities for addressing HR executives' most urgent challenges. Her areas of focus include employee experience, organizational culture, change management and the future of work.

In 2023, expert guests joined the Gartner Talent Angle to lay out their visions for the future of jobs, the office and HR. Marshall School of Business professor Dr. John Boudreau and Mercer's Transformation Services global leader Ravin Jesuthasan propose a new work “operating system” based on deconstructed work and deconstructed talent. Author Julia Hobsbawm offers advice on how organizations should shape the role of the office in an era of work marked by unclear boundaries and changing attitudes. And Vail Resorts CHRO Lynanne Kunkel explains how the HR function can strive for excellence by developing capabilities like change leadership and human-centered experience design. Ravin Jesuthasan is the global leader of Mercer's Transformation Services business. He has led multiple research efforts on the global workforce, the emerging digital economy, the rise of artificial intelligence, and the transformation of work. Ravin has led numerous research projects for the World Economic Forum on the transformation of work and the global workforce. He is a regular participant and presenter at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos and is a member of the forum's Steering Committee on Work and Employment. He is the author of “Transformative HR”, “Lead the Work: Navigating a World Beyond Employment,” “Reinventing Jobs: A 4-Step Approach to Applying Automation to Work”, and the Wall Street Journal bestseller “Work Without Jobs: How to Reboot Your Organization's Work Operating System”. Dr. John Boudreau is recognized worldwide as a leading evidence-based visionary on the future of work and organization. John is Professor Emeritus of Management and Organization and a Senior Research Scientist with the Center for Effective Organizations, at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. For 40 years, he has conducted breakthrough research on the bridge between work, superior human capital, leadership and sustainable competitive advantage. His research addresses the future of work and the global HR profession, work automation, HR measurement and analytics, decision-based HR, executive mobility, HR information systems and organizational staffing and development. John helped to establish and then directed the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) at Cornell University, where he was a professor for more than 20 years. Julia Hobsbawm is an award-winning business author and futurist of work who writes the “Working Assumptions” column for Bloomberg's Work Shift. The author of the acclaimed book “The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future,” she was a founder of the U.S.-led Workforce Institute, was chair of the inaugural U.K. Demos Workshift Commission, and now co-hosts the popular podcast, “The Nowhere Office.” Julia is the author of six books, including the award-winning “The Simplicity Principle,” and she was awarded an OBE in the late Queen Elizabeth II's Birthday Honours List in 2015 for services to business. She regularly consults for and speaks to corporations, governments and changemakers around the world. Lynanne Kunkel is the CHRO for Vail Resorts. Prior to joining Vail Resorts in 2017, Lynanne served in various executive positions for Whirlpool, most recently as senior vice president of global HR. Throughout her career, she has led all aspects of HR to deliver enhanced business performance in areas that include business HR, talent acquisition, talent management, leadership development, organizational effectiveness, diversity and inclusion, and talent analytics.

BEST OF 2023 EPISODES:Today's guest is Julia Hobsbawm, Writer, Speaker, Consultant and Broadcaster about the future of work, Social Health and creating a better connected and functioning society.Julia is the founder of The Nowhere Office and the author of a book of the same name. She's previously authored five more books, including Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future, and is now a contributing commentator and columnist for Bloomberg, writing the 'Working Assumptions' column for Bloomberg Work Shift.We had a fascinating conversation covering:Whether the office era is over.The emergence of The Nowhere Office.Reframing the language of work.Why we need to approach hybrid flexibly.Tackling the issues of poor management and leadership.LINKS:The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the FutureJulia's LinkedInJulia's TwitterJulia' websiteFuture Work/Life newsletterFuture Work/Life websiteBuy Work/Life Flywheel HERE (UK) or HERE (US).This is what Lynda Gratton, author of Redesigning Work and Professor of Management Practice at London Business School, says about it:“We all know that the old three-stage life course of full-time education, full-time work and full-time retirement is not fit for purpose. But we also know that to make the changes to a more flexible and adaptive multi-stage life, we need to be bold and courageous. In this inspiring book, Henderson shows the foundations for this courage and shares the stories of those who have created momentum and energy in their working life.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our US theme continues in this exclusive  podcast interview with Professor Juliet B. Schor, the economist and sociologist who advocates the four day week, and who predicted many of the moments the workplace is experiencing as far back as 1992 with her seminal book The Overworked American. She joins Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern in a wide ranging and deep diving discussion looking at the underlying factors behind what it means to be a working American today. This new series of The Nowhere Office is in association with Ashore.io

 I'm on holiday at the moment, but I want to make sure you've got plenty of Recruiting Future content to listen to until I'm back. So for the next two weeks, I'm going to supplement the new interviews being published in July by republishing some of my favourite episodes with conversations you may have missed the first time around. With the debates about hybrid work continuing to rage and many companies forcibly ordering people to return to the office, this week's replay of my interview with author Julia Hobsbawm from last year takes the long-term perspective on the future work the debate badly needs.  In the interview, we discuss: • Reimagining and reframing how we work • The four phases of work since 1945 • How the pandemic has accelerated trends that were already there • The complexity of hybrid • The real challenges with developing the next phase of work • Undoing assumptions and old norms • The challenge for talent acquisition • Autonomy, flexibility, and networks • Thinking strategically to improve wellness and mental health. A full transcript will appear here shortly. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.

The debate on whether to go back to the office or work from home has been getting louder in recent years, but not necessarily clearer. The reimagining of the office is revolutionizing many aspects of the workplace, including how we learn at work. In this episode I speak with the author of The Nowhere Office, who is a leading thinker and voice on the future of work. Julia Hobsbawm OBE is an award-winning writer, speaker, consultant and Bloomberg commentator and columnist about the future of work. The author of the acclaimed book The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future. She was a founder of the US-led Workforce Institute, was Chair of the inaugural UK Demos Workshift Commission, and now co-hosts the popular podcast The Nowhere Office. Julia is the author of six books including the award-winning The Simplicity Principle which won two awards for Best Business Book and Best General Self-Help book 2020 in the USA, and Fully Connected: Social Health in an Age of Overload which was shortlisted for Management Book of the Year in the UK. Julia has been connecting people and ideas for many years. She is an acclaimed entrepreneur who founded the networks and podcast business Editorial Intelligence. She was awarded an OBE in the late Queen Elizabeth II's Birthday Honours List in 2015 for ‘Services to Business'. She regularly consultants for and speaks to corporations, government and changemakers around the world. Julia Hobsbawm: http://juliahobsbawm.com/index.html Twitter: https://twitter.com/juliahobsbawm The Nowhere Office: https://thenowhereoffice.com/index.html

On this episode of The Open Talent Report, Connor Heaney talks to Julia Hobsbawm, award-winning and bestselling author, columnist for Bloomberg, speaker, consultant and broadcaster on future of work. Julia recently published her sixth book “The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future”. Tune in to find out more about Julia's book, along with:Julia's StoryThe Nowhere Office Remote work - Not “one-size-fits-all”Adjusting Central Business DistrictsOffices with Living QuartersDeskless vs. Knowledge Workers (in)equalityTalent Scarcity - What's driving it?Automation & Jobs DisplacementEducation for the Future of WorkDiscrimination in the Labour Market  Connect with Julia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliahobsbawm/ Connect with Connor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hrmconnorheaney/ Buy Julia's book: https://www.amazon.com/Nowhere-Office-Reinventing-Workplace-Future-ebook/dp/B09CPNSNT8?ref_=ast_author_mpbVisit CXC website: https://www.cxcglobal.com/ 

How do you create the best places to work? This is a question many leaders are asking themselves as they figure out new hybrid environments. To do this, they need to understand the features and characteristics of high performing workplaces and the enabling organisational culture.In this podcast, Julia Hobsbawm, author of The Nowhere Office and Bloomsburg columnist, gives her insights into the workplace revolution. She shares her thoughts on where work is heading and how leaders need to listen, ask and iterate to create the conditions for high performance.“There is no hard and fast fixed rule or model anymore. This is what's scaring the pants off people.” – Julia Hobsbawm You'll hear about:What the nowhere office is.Obstacles that stop thoughts becoming actions What's going on in the hybrid world.What's happening to the demand of office space.Are there winners and losers in the corporate real estate marketplace?The change that is in the air.Why it's people that matter, not work.How to bring learners and leavers together.About Julia:Julia Hobsbawm is a futurist of work. An award-winning writer, speaker, commentator and consultant, she writes the ‘Working Assumptions' column for Bloomberg's Work Shift. And created and co-presents the popular podcast The Nowhere Office. The author of the acclaimed book The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future, She was a founder of the US-led Workforce Institute, and was Chair of the inaugural UK Demos Workshift Commission.Resources:●      Profile: http://www.juliahobsbawm.com/about.html ●      Nowhere Office book: https://thenowhereoffice.com/book.html●      Nowhere Office podcast: https://thenowhereoffice.com/podcast.htmlMy resources:Sign up to my Strategic Leader newsletter (http://bit.ly/36WRpri) for stimuli, ideas, guidance and tips on how to lead your team, organisation or self more effectively, delivered straight to your inbox:Subscribe to my YouTube channel (http://bit.ly/3cFGk1k) where you can watch the conversation.Take the Extraordinary Essentials test (https://bit.ly/3EhSKY5) to identify your strengths and development areas as a strategic leader: For more details about me:Services (https://bit.ly/373jctk) to CEOs, entrepreneurs and professionals.About me (https://bit.ly/3LFsfiO) - my background, experience and philosophy.Examples of my writing (https://bit.ly/3O7jkc7).Follow me and engage with me on LinkedIn (https://bit.ly/2Z2PexP).Follow me and engage with me on Twitter (https://bit.ly/36XavNI).

Today's guest is Julia Hobsbawm, Writer, Speaker, Consultant and Broadcaster about the future of work, Social Health and creating a better connected and functioning society.Julia is the founder of The Nowhere Office and the author of a book of the same name. She's previously authored five more books, including Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future, and is now a contributing commentator and columnist for Bloomberg, writing the 'Working Assumptions' column for Bloomberg Work Shift.We had a fascinating conversation covering:Whether the office era is over.The emergence of The Nowhere Office.Reframing the language of work.Why we need to approach hybrid flexibly.Tackling the issues of poor management and leadership.LINKS:The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the FutureJulia's LinkedInJulia's TwitterJulia' websiteFuture Work/Life newsletterFuture Work/Life websiteBuy Work/Life Flywheel HERE (UK) or HERE (US).This is what Lynda Gratton, author of Redesigning Work and Professor of Management Practice at London Business School, says about it:“We all know that the old three-stage life course of full-time education, full-time work and full-time retirement is not fit for purpose. But we also know that to make the changes to a more flexible and adaptive multi-stage life, we need to be bold and courageous. In this inspiring book, Henderson shows the foundations for this courage and shares the stories of those who have created momentum and energy in their working life.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How fair is work? In the third in a special series in association with Prospect, the leading British union for professional skilled workers The Nowhere Office co-hosts Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern talk exclusively to Baron John Hendy KC, one of the UK's most prominent employment barristers who has made landmark case law over five decades before being joined by Philippa Childs, Deputy General Secretary of Prospect, heading up Bectu, to discuss the history and contemporary aspects of a fair workplace. Has digital working made life harder or easier for those in and outside offices? Plus perspective from Prospect's Andrew Pakes, Deputy General Secretary and Director of Communications and Research. A Fully Connected production executive produced by Julia Hobsbawm.

Join us in New York for this edition of The Nowhere Office as we see how get an exclusive tour of real estate consultancy Savill's Park Avenue office refurb for hybrid working from Vice President Gabe Marans with soundproofed booths and the very latest gadgets to make an office as happy and workable as possible. Co-hosted by Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern. A Fully Connected production.

The Nowhere Office this week goes to the gym – MindGym, with an in-depth interview with Octavius Black CBE, co-founder and Chief Executive, one of the UK's most successful entrepreneurs. MindGym is the largest behavioural science company in the world. It has worked with 62% of the FTSE 100 and 59% of the S&P 100, changing the way more than 5 million professionals think, feel and behave at work. Co-hosts Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern discuss what does - and doesn't work – when it comes to coaching, psychology and behaviour change at work and Octavius pulls no punches!

One of the most vexed questions raised by The Nowhere Office is what happens to office space. Our regular hosts Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern are joined by guest presenter Joanna Swash, Group CEO of Moneypenny, the live call and chat experts to probe and explore the complexity of the topic with Michael Creamer, whose property-related portfolio of roles includes being Chairman, Global Occupier Services, EMEA, Cushman & Wakefield.

The hybrid world has upended traditional norms around the role of the office. Author Julia Hobsbawm joins the Talent Angle to discuss how talent leaders can apply the insights from her book “The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future” to take advantage of the emerging opportunities created by hybrid ways of working . Hobsbawm argues we are in a new era of work – marked by unclear boundaries and changing attitudes – and shares advice on what organizations should do as they continue to shape the role of the office in this context. In doing so, she looks to the past at how earlier innovations in knowledge work changed offices and to the future at how physical spaces will support employees in sustained performance. Julia Hobsbawm is an award-winning business author and futurist of work who writes the "Working Assumptions" column for Bloomberg's Workshift. The author of the acclaimed book “The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future,” she was a founder of the US-led Workforce Institute, was Chair of the inaugural UK Demos Workshift Commission, and now co-hosts the popular podcast, “The Nowhere Office.” Julia is the author of six books including the award-winning The Simplicity Principle, and she was awarded an OBE in the late Queen Elizabeth II's Birthday Honours List in 2015 for ‘Services to Business'. She regularly consults for and speaks to corporations, government and changemakers around the world. Jessica Knight is a Vice President of Research in the Gartner HR practice. She leads research teams to identify best practices and new opportunities to address HR executives' most urgent challenges. Her areas of focus include employee experience, organizational culture, change management, and the future of work.

In the final of three special dispatches from the World Economic Forum, The Nowhere Office had an exclusive interview with Greg Tomb, President of Zoom, arguably the company which is most associated with the workplace revolution which has happened since Covid-19 started – a transformation which is clearly continuing.

In the first of three special dispatches from the World Economic Forum, The Nowhere Office captures the mood of leaders and movers and shakers on the future of work, including exclusive chats with McKinsey's Chief People Officer, Katy George, and Kweilin Ellingrud, Director of the McKinsey Global Institute. And we bring you, too, contributions from celebrated organisational psychologist Adam Grant, Vimeo's CEO Anjali Sud, Karien van Gennip, Minister of Social Affairs and Employment of The Netherlands, Christy Hoffman, General Secretary, GNI Union and Kevin Delaney of work transformation business Charter.

As remote working becomes the norm rather than exception for many businesses, what is the best way to negotiate this pivotal time in the history of work? My guest Julia Hobsbawm is the award-winning writer, speaker, consultant and Bloomberg commentator and columnist about the future of work. The author of the acclaimed book The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future, She was a founder of the US-led Workforce Institute, was Chair of the inaugural UK Demos Workshift Commission, and now co-hosts the popular podcast The Nowhere Office. Julia is the author of six books including the award-winning The Simplicity Principle and Fully Connected: Social Health in an Age of Overload. An acclaimed entrepreneur who founded the networks and podcast business Editorial Intelligence, Julia was awarded an OBE in the late Queen Elizabeth II's Birthday Honours List in 2015 for ‘Services to Business'. She regularly consultants for and speaks to corporations, government and changemakers around the world. Join us as we discuss a more meaningful and more workable solution to today's workplace derived from cutting-edge research and extensive interviews for Julia's latest book ‘The Nowhere Office'.

As remote working becomes the norm rather than exception for many businesses, what is the best way to negotiate this pivotal time in the history of work? My guest Julia Hobsbawm is the award-winning writer, speaker, consultant and Bloomberg commentator and columnist about the future of work. The author of the acclaimed book The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future, She was a founder of the US-led Workforce Institute, was Chair of the inaugural UK Demos Workshift Commission, and now co-hosts the popular podcast The Nowhere Office. Julia is the author of six books including the award-winning The Simplicity Principle and Fully Connected: Social Health in an Age of Overload. An acclaimed entrepreneur who founded the networks and podcast business Editorial Intelligence, Julia was awarded an OBE in the late Queen Elizabeth II's Birthday Honours List in 2015 for ‘Services to Business'. She regularly consultants for and speaks to corporations, government and changemakers around the world. Join us as we discuss a more meaningful and more workable solution to today's workplace derived from cutting-edge research and extensive interviews for Julia's latest book ‘The Nowhere Office'.

 For many people today saying who you work for as opposed to where you work is a lot simpler question to answer. There were many problems emerging with the traditional office before the pandemic, but its fate was further cast in doubt when people and technology adapted to work anywhere, anytime. Now this revolution is … Continue reading EP 607  The Nowhere Office is the Place to Be →

You can write anywhere, right? The Nowhere Office ought to be perfect for writers. But how does the collaborative business of agenting, publishing, and especially the growing world of audio books work in practice? Does it need an office of any kind? An episode to mark the posthumous publication of the late Jessica Morris' memoir All in My Head includes unheard of audio of her, plus an interview with her agent, Zoe Pagnamenta, as well as an interview with Kim Sayle, head of Hachette Audio and Alex Soon-Yan-Pang, author of a number of books about work-life identity. Brought to you in association with Hachette Audio

It's hard to sum up Julia Hobsbawm. When I asked my husband he said “human dynamo” and “tireless promoter” She was the first ever professor of Public Relations who started her career as the publicist for Maya Angelou. She describes her career as “atypical.” She's fund raised for the Labour party, she's introduced Sarah to Gordon Brown and ran a company with her, Hobsbawm Macaulay, she's experienced bankruptcy and corporate cancellation –and is a content provider and convenor par excellence, whose latest book The Nowhere Office is the business book of the moment

All around the world, debates about hybrid and remote working rumble on as employers and employees experiment to find mutually agreeable and effective ways of working. There is a lot of noise in the debate around the future of work, and I really want to cut through this. With that in mind, I'm going to focus the next three episodes of the podcast on the future of work, exploring the real issues, looking at the practical solutions that are being put in place and taking an informed look at what the future might look like. My first guest in this mini-series is writer, speaker and consultant Julia Hobsbawm, author of the brilliant book "The Nowhere Office". In her book, Julia explores what is happening at the moment in the context of workplace changes over the last few decades and examines the current issues to help map the future.  In the interview, we discuss: Reimagining and reframing how we work The four phases of work since 1945 How the pandemic has accelerated trends that were already there The complexity of hybrid The real challenges with developing the next phase of work Undoing assumptions and old norms The challenge for talent acquisition Autonomy, flexibility and networks Thinking strategically to improve wellness and mental health. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.

All around the world, debates about hybrid and remote working rumble on as employers and employees experiment to find mutually agreeable and effective ways of working. There is a lot of noise in the debate around the future of work, and I really want to cut through this. With that in mind, I'm going to focus the next three episodes of the podcast on the future of work, exploring the real issues, looking at the practical solutions that are being put in place and taking an informed look at what the future might look like. My first guest in this mini-series is writer, speaker and consultant Julia Hobsbawm, author of the brilliant book "The Nowhere Office". In her book, Julia explores what is happening at the moment in the context of workplace changes over the last few decades and examines the current issues to help map the future.  In the interview, we discuss: Reimagining and reframing how we work The four phases of work since 1945 How the pandemic has accelerated trends that were already there The complexity of hybrid The real challenges with developing the next phase of work Undoing assumptions and old norms The challenge for talent acquisition Autonomy, flexibility and networks Thinking strategically to improve wellness and mental health. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.

All around the world, debates about hybrid and remote working rumble on as employers and employees experiment to find mutually agreeable and effective ways of working. There is a lot of noise in the debate around the future of work, and I really want to cut through this. With that in mind, I'm going to focus the next three episodes of the podcast on the future of work, exploring the real issues, looking at the practical solutions that are being put in place and taking an informed look at what the future might look like. My first guest in this mini-series is writer, speaker and consultant Julia Hobsbawm, author of the brilliant book "The Nowhere Office". In her book, Julia explores what is happening at the moment in the context of workplace changes over the last few decades and examines the current issues to help map the future.  In the interview, we discuss: Reimagining and reframing how we work The four phases of work since 1945 How the pandemic has accelerated trends that were already there The complexity of hybrid The real challenges with developing the next phase of work Undoing assumptions and old norms The challenge for talent acquisition Autonomy, flexibility and networks Thinking strategically to improve wellness and mental health. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.

So if you're a regular listener to Oven-Ready you'll know that at the end of each season we put together a couple compilation episodes called Oven-Ready Reheated looking again at some of the themes and best bits. Season 4 of the show has been hugely popular with some fantastic interviews so thanks again to all of my exceptional guests. Remember all of the seasons shows are available at ovenreadyhr.com or wherever you get your podcasts but here are some tasty appetisers: Radical Candor is the management philosophy developed by Kim Scott based on caring personally but challenging directly. I asked Kim to tell me the inspiration for her approach: David Hieatt, the co-founder of Hiut Denim talked to me organisational purpose and also his approach to finding talent.In the first of two segments, author, entrepreneur and thinker Julia Hobsbawm came on to the show to discuss her new book The Nowhere Office, here she explains why she believes the Monday-Friday working week is history. In this second segment, Julia Hobsbawm reveals why she thinks HR need to kill some ‘darlings'.Andrew Bazeley from the Fawcett Society – the UK's leading charity campaigning for gender equality and women's rights explained why they are asking for the salary history question to be banned.I ask entrepreneur Alex Kruger if he was in anyway proud of ‘Grace' the funeral start up business he founded and later closed.I ask HR advocate and speaker Tracie Sponenberg if she feels that HR leaders have a sit at the board table.It has been 25 years since Professor Dave Ulrich coined the phrased HR Business Partner.  In our interview title is it time kill off the HR business partner role? Author, futurist and Consulting Partner at HR Curator, Dave Millner gives an assessment on why firms seem to be appointing non hr professional to senior HR roles. That's it folks – Season 5 of the show will return in May 2022. If you have themes or stories you'd like me to cover then I'd love to hear from you – get hold of me at ovenreadyhr.com.Resources:https://ovenreadyhr.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/podcasthost/Twitter: @OvenHrhttps://www.personneltoday.com

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world's leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by Julia Hobsbawm, the author of The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future. Julia Hobsbawm is an entrepreneur, writer, and consultant who addresses the challenges of the hyper connected age, in particular remedies of what she has called Social Health for organizations. She is Chair of The Workshift Commission and is Founder and Chair of the content and connection business Editorial Intelligence. Her bestselling book The Simplicity Principle: Six Steps Towards Clarity in a Complex World was published in 2020 and won the American Book Fest Best Book Award 2020 – Business: General and the NYC Big Book Award 2020 – Self-Help: General. Awarded an OBE for services to business, her articles are amongst the most downloaded on the Strategy + Business site and she is an adviser to the British Academy's Future of the Corporation project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julia Hobsbawm OBE is a British entrepreneur, writer and public speaker on Social Health, Simplicity in a Complex World, and the future of the workplace post-pandemic. She coined the phrase "The Nowhere Office" (and authored book of the same name) to describe the hybrid work era. As remote working becomes the norm rather than the exception for many office workers around the globe, The Nowhere Office proposes a radical new way of thinking about work both now and in the future. Offering a strategic and practical guide to negotiating this pivotal moment in the history of work, The Nowhere Office addresses the problems which beset work - the endemic stagnant productivity and crisis of stress which predate the pandemic. Drawing on history, cutting-edge research and extensive interviews Julia Hobsbawm argues persuasively that now is the time to develop something better, more meaningful, and, crucially, more workable. Listen in as Michael Creamer and Julia Hobsbawm discuss the new challenges of remote working, repurposing offices for more creative interaction, managing WFH teams and satisfying the demand for more purposeful work with greater work/life balance. Related Links The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future

My guest today is Julia Hobsbawm: entrepreneur, writer, and consultant who addresses the challenges of this hyper connected age. She is Chair of the content and connection business Editorial Intelligence. She is the author of six bestselling books including The Simplicity Principle and Fully Connected. Today we are discussing her latest book The Nowhere Office, a book that proposes a radical new way of thinking about work both now and in the future. This isn't an anti-office book but more a look at what the world now looks like: are offices not needed in the same way? What does the future look like? It covers the new challenges of remote working, repurposing offices for more creativity, managing WFH teams and how to work with purpose and greater work/life balance. I really enjoyed it, it reminded me of so much I was writing about in The Multi-Hyphen Method pre-pandemic, so i found it fascinating speaking to her. I hope you enjoy it :)- Buy The Nowhere Office here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9781529396522- Buy The Multi-Hyphen Method here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9781473680128- My books:.https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/emma-gannon- My favourite 2020 books: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/my-favourite-reads-of-2020-9bf19342-f535-4856-ab1a-d523f5ecd98a- My 2021 picks: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/2021-books-i-m-excited-about-619ab32f-f22e-4282-a0e7-71732055e3c7- Twitter: Twitter.com/emmagannon- Instagram: Instagram.com/emmagannonuk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In March 2020, Millions of us left the office to begin a new way of working and work has never been the same since.  The debate about hybrid working continues to exercise the minds of many senior execs but is  hybrid working just a mere consequence of something much greater than about where we work but instead how we work, why we work and the culture and purpose of who we work for?My guest this week argues in her new book The Nowhere Office that we have a unique opportunity to reset the world of work and how we work in the future.  Julia Hobsbawm writes extensively about work culture, work-life balance, and the age of overload.  Julia is Chair of The Demos Workshift Commission and Founder and Chair of Editorial Intelligence. In 2021 she was listed in the HR Most Influential List. Her book The Simplicity Principle won Best Business Book of 2020 whilst Fully Connected was shortlisted for Management Book of the Year. In The Nowhere Office, Julia Hobsbawm draws upon history, cutting-edge research and data and extensive interviews with some of the world's leading workplace thinkers and philosophers looking at the social, cultural and political context of the changes in the workplace.  For the HR profession, the challenge is immense and if as Julia describes HR as the 'undernourished bullied child of the c-suite', what future does the profession have if it fails to respond to the world of The Nowhere Office.In this fascinating episode you'll discover:What does working in an office mean today?  The office used to be about the 'place' but now it's about so much more such as how we work and why we work;Julie describes the pandemic as the 'tipping point'.  Workers frustration with the world of work was already there and the pandemic became the agent of change;Some commentators have argued that hybrid working is great for the worker but the benefits are less clear for the organisations.  Julia disputes this view that if hybrid working is good for employees then surely that's good for the organisation;Her view on 'Peloton' Politics' and 'Flex Shaming'- and the media stories surrounding some senior government workers who've found more time for the exercises regime;How time has been called on offices being 'palaces of presenteeism';How existing management and leadership systems are not fit for purpose as evidenced by low productivity, absenteeism and toxic work culture;To be at the vanguard of future organisational life, HR needs to shed some layers and 'kill some darlings';At their worst, HR have been the enablers of 'terrible leadership' but redemption for JR is possible by championing 'social health'How the office of the future is likely to resemble a private members' club or an airline loungeResources:https://ovenreadyhr.comhttps://www.juliahobsbawm.com/https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/julia-hobsbawm/the-nowhere-office/9781529396522/https://www.linkedin.com/in/podcasthost/Twitter: @OvenHrhttps://www.personneltoday.comTell me me what YOU thinkTell me what you think of this interview.  Email me at chris@ovenreadyhr.comRate, Review & ShareIf you enjoyed this show, please share with your friends and please remember to rate and review!To listen to the full episode and view all the other Oven-Ready HR podcast episodes or find out more about Oven-Ready HR and Chris Taylor your show host visit https://ovenreadyhr.com

At this pivotal moment in the history of work, isn't now the time to develop something better, something more meaningful and something more workable? Julia Hobsbawm, chair of the Demos Workshift Commission and author of 'The Nowhere Office', describes the biggest shift in working for 100 years by addressing six key shifts from time and place to networks, wellbeing and management. Hobsbawm argues that many of the issues we now face can be understood as challenges we long delayed facing - how to be a human being and a worker being, how to balance home life and work life, and how to cope with the cascade of technological opportunities and threats. Join Hobsbawm in conversation with Alan Lockey, Head of the RSA Future Work Centre and Associate Director, as she argues how and why it is possible to rise to the challenges of remote working, repurposing offices for more creative interaction, managing WFH teams and satisfying the demand for more purposeful work with greater work/life balance by redesigning not just the places we work but how we work. #nowhereofficeBecome an RSA Events sponsor: https://utm.guru/ueemb Donate to The RSA: https://utm.guru/udNNB Follow RSA Events on Instagram: https://instagram.com/rsa_events/ Follow the RSA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RSAEvents Like RSA Events on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rsaeventsofficial Listen to RSA Events podcasts: https://bit.ly/35EyQYU

A radical new proposal for creating community and purpose in the post-pandemic workplace from one of the foremost thinkers in business and organisations. As remote working becomes the norm rather than the exception for many office workers around the globe, The Nowhere Office proposes a radical new way of thinking about work both now and in the future. Offering a strategic and practical guide to negotiating this pivotal moment in the history of work, The Nowhere Office addresses the problems which beset work - the endemic stagnant productivity and crisis of stress which predate the pandemic - and the new challenges of remote working, repurposing offices for more creative interaction, managing WFH teams and satisfying the demand for more purposeful work with greater work/life balance. Drawing on history, cutting-edge research and extensive interviews Julia Hobsbawm argues persuasively that now is the time to develop something better, more meaningful and, crucially, more workable.

A radical new proposal for creating community and purpose in the post-pandemic workplace from one of the foremost thinkers in business and organisations. As remote working becomes the norm rather than the exception for many office workers around the globe, The Nowhere Office proposes a radical new way of thinking about work both now and in the future. Offering a strategic and practical guide to negotiating this pivotal moment in the history of work, The Nowhere Office addresses the problems which beset work - the endemic stagnant productivity and crisis of stress which predate the pandemic - and the new challenges of remote working, repurposing offices for more creative interaction, managing WFH teams and satisfying the demand for more purposeful work with greater work/life balance. Drawing on history, cutting-edge research and extensive interviews Julia Hobsbawm argues persuasively that now is the time to develop something better, more meaningful and, crucially, more workable.

Two outstanding conversations trying to make sense of what is happening around work. Firstly I chat to Brian Elliott who leads the Future Forum, a group led by Slack. they released a new report surveying workers in the UK, US and other major countries. Here are the topline findings - but the conversation goes way beyond this.UK knowledge workers are most likely to say they want flexibility in where they work (81%)60% of UK knowledge workers are more open to changing jobs in the next year69% UK knowledge workers say they want to work hybrid - 58% are currently doing soBrian also gives a shout out to Donut - a tool to build serendipity.Then I speak to one of the most respected thought leaders in making sense of the future of work, Julia Hobsbawm is the sought after intelligent voice when it comes to future of work discussions. She chairs the Demos 'Workshift Commission. Her new book, The Nowhere Office is a confident reflection about how we can tackle the future - it's out for pre-order now. We talk about office politics, establishing what Leesman call our 'workplace why' - and how we can make hybrid work. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hybrid is probably the steepest learning curve for managers and employees for a generation. But how can we make this work? How can we find identity and meaning in a hybrid world? And how can tech guide us through these uncertain times? Joining the Nowhere Office in this episode are Professor Laura Empson, Director of the Centre for Professional Service Firms at Bayes Business School, Jeremy Dalton, who heads up PWC's Virtual and Augmented Reality team, and the social scientist and Head of Technology and Transformation for RHP Group, Matt Ballantine. Brought to you in association with Moneypenny.

Hybrid working brings with it all sorts of benefits thanks to its flexible nature. But for managers, it poses some tricky questions. How do you manage a team that is split by location and perhaps timezone? How do you keep up morale when you're not in the room? How do you create a work environment that benefits everyone? In this episode of the Nowhere Office, we are joined by an array of workplace experts to help us grapple with this conundrum: Ben Page, CEO of Ipsos Mori, Joanna Swash, the group CEO of Moneypenny, and Mark Eltringham, publisher of Workplace Insight and IN Magazine. Plus, our resident Nowhere Office expert, Julia Hobsbawm, gives us a rundown of her working life.

Today, we're crossing the generational divide to ask: what does the Nowhere Office mean to different age groups? We're going to examine the different or similar ways in which generations handled “the office”, by which we mean “work”, pre pandemic and since with a whole host of heavyweight guests. First you'll hear an excellent panel discussion with generations expert and historian, Eliza Filby, Hamish McRae, the indefatigable economic commentator, and the future of work consultant, Monique Malcom-Hay. Our guru interview this month is with columnist Suzanne Moore, who's contribution on remote working and intergenerational differences is well worth waiting for. Plus a little reading from Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener.

The Nowhere Office is a new podcast looking at the future of work and workplace in the post-pandemic world presented by the business and management writers Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern and featuring interviews and discussions around where and when we work – and why and how.