Workplace Geeks
Workplace Geeks is the podcast on a mission to celebrate the most innovative workplace research in the world. Hosted by Chris Moriarty and Ian Ellison, each episode explores fascinating work with the authors themselves, capturing practical learning and business impacts. Join the Workplace Geeks to bridge the gap between academia and business as we explore the diverse elements that can affect workplace experience, employee value and business performance.
Workplace Geeks
Space for thought: one grey box | with Jeremy Myerson
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After another quick dip into the mailbag, Chris and Ian talk to WORKTECH Academy director, author and activist, professor emeritus Jeremy Myerson, about his award-winning research paper from 2011, ‘Space for thought: designing for knowledge workers’ (co-authored with lead-researcher Catherine Greene). The conversation explores the value of creative workplace research approaches, and includes practical advice for inspired listeners. James is back for a PinderPonder™ that also includes a brief debate about outsourcing your ironing.
Novel research techniques, like drawing to elicit visual data, provide user-centric approaches that can unlock surprising workplace insights. But it’s also easy to overlook smaller qualitative studies, in a world where big datasets and statistical analyses often attract the most attention. Yet their value to bring deeper insights about why people work and feel as they do can be used to complement and counterpoint the more common - and typically shallower - what data.
Timings
[00:00] Welcome and Workplace Geeks mailbag
[04:05] Introducing Jeremy and the research
[06:52] Discussion with Jeremy about ‘Spaces for thought’
[40:51] The PinderPonder™
[55:17] Outro and contact us
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- ‘Space for thought: designing for knowledge workers’ research paper
- WORKTECH Academy
- The Helen Hamyln Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art
- Lynda Gratton ‘How to do Hybrid Right’ HBR article
- Microsoft ‘The New Future of Work’ research project
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