11. Happy Staying Digital - The Millennial Perspective w/ Fiona Thatcher, Aaron Brooks and Barton Donaldson

Fiona Thatcher, Aaron Brooks and Barton Donaldson are three talented, aspiring young Australian lawyers working in London. As with most lawyers, since about March of this year, that work has been based at home. We hear a lot of commentary on how people are adapting their work around the pandemic but we wanted to hear from this younger cohort directly.

Fiona, Aaron and Barton talk of how life was and how it now is, the things they hope the pandemic has changed for good, and of a future of work they see that is not constrained by a physical office.

This was an eye-opening discussion for me which makes me ponder whether the rush to return to the office post pandemic is going to be as strong as many Landlords would like.

'The Field Trip' also available in video at:  https://youtu.be/DzmAzaA23dw

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00:00 Introduction

01:56 Guest bios

03:25 Work pre-COVID - people

08:27 Work pre-COVID - technology

18:39 Email vs DM

21:17 Working from home setup

29:36 Good internet critical

32:03 Perhaps fancy offices are overrated?!

34:57 Avoiding the commute - pivotal in WFH discussion

36:34The Workation TM 😉

43:52Virtualising innovation and socialisation

51:23 What to keep & discard from the pandemic?

58:38 Leaning new skills in pandemic

01:00:51 Barton's reliving his NBA roots

01:04:02 Fiona's writing a murder mystery

01:06:00 Aaron's learning acoustic guitar