Workplace Geeks
Workplace Geeks is the podcast from Audiem, exploring the people, ideas and evidence shaping the future of work.
Hosted by Chris Moriarty, each episode features conversations with leading researchers, authors, workplace practitioners and business leaders, uncovering practical insights on workplace experience, organisational performance, technology, leadership and the changing nature of work.
From groundbreaking academic research to real-world workplace challenges, Workplace Geeks helps bridge the gap between theory and practice, bringing fresh thinking to the people creating better workplaces and better organisations.
Workplace Geeks
S5 | E2 - The Nowhere Office, AI and the Future of Work with Julia Hobsbawm
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The pandemic felt like a moment of reckoning for work.
Almost overnight, organisations were forced to rethink where work happened, how it happened, and the relationship between employers and employees. Long-held assumptions that had survived for decades suddenly looked open to challenge. For a while, it felt as though everything was up for debate.
But changing work has proved harder than many expected.
Before we'd really settled on what the future of work might look like, AI arrived and introduced a whole new set of opportunities, risks and questions. Alongside geopolitical uncertainty, demographic shifts and changing expectations of work itself, leaders now find themselves navigating a landscape where multiple forces are reshaping organisations at the same time.
In this episode of Workplace Geeks, Chris Moriarty is joined by Julia Hobsbawm, author of The Nowhere Office and one of the most thoughtful commentators on the changing nature of work.
Together they explore why the debate was never really about offices, how the pandemic accelerated wider questions about work and society, the pushback that followed, and why understanding the future may require us to revisit some of the assumptions we've inherited from the past.
It's a wide-ranging conversation covering workplace culture, technology, leadership, AI, organisational design and the challenge of creating organisations that are fit for an increasingly uncertain future.
Transcript:
Before we go back to the episode, a quick word about Audium. When people think about workplace feedback, they tend to think about surveys, but some of the richest workplace insight is often hiding in places organizations rarely look. Take FM helpdesk tickets. Every day, employees leave thousands of comments about buildings, technology, catering, cleaning, temperature, meeting rooms, and dozens of other workplace issues. Individually, they're just tickets
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