The third special programme in association with PwC UK to look at developments around AI at work and in society, timed to coincide with The World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2024 and asking the question: are we at a fork in the road in terms of AI and its impact on the future of work? Co-hosts Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern were joined in studio by Kevin Ellis, the Alliance Senior partner of the UK and Middle East of PWC UK and Gina Neff, director of the Cambridge University Minderoo Cen...
Jan 16, 2024•30 min
We end 2023 and series five with an interview with Dr Gleb Tsipursky of Disaster Avoidance Experts, also known as "The Office Whisperer" by chief executives for his ability to help them navigate and negotiate flexible working and he explains his approach to Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern at the end of another turbulent post-Covid year in the world of work. A Fully Connected production, edited by Kevin Hirshorn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Dec 29, 2023•33 min
An important and evolving topic at work is diversity, unconscious bias and how to have a harmonious workplace in an increasingly conflict-laden world outside of work. Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern are joined by the acclaimed business psychologist, co-founder and senior partner of firm Pearn Kandola whose books include Racism at Work: The Danger of Indifference Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Dec 28, 2023•39 min
In this episode, the genius behavioural expert and advertising guru Rory Sutherland, Vice-President of advertising Group Ogilvy joins Julia Hobsbawm (co-host Stefan Stern is away) and Aled Maclean Jones of series 5 partner Ashore.io to discuss the dark and stormy challenges of flexibly working over, appropriately, Dark and Stormy cocktails…..A Fully Connected Production, edited by Kevin Hirshorn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Dec 22, 2023•38 min
Join Julia Hobsbawm in discussion with Roy Bahat, head of Bloomberg Beta, the first venture capital firm to invest in AI at work as far back as 2016. In a wide-ranging discussion covering trade unionism, technology and innovation and the philosophy of work including the question: what will the last job be? A Fully Connected production co-hosted with Stefan Stern and edited by Kevin Hirshorn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Dec 18, 2023•34 min
Meet ‘proptech’ guru Dave Eisenberg of Zigg Capital, the New York based global investment firm at the intersection of real estate and technology, and quite a bit in between. He spoke to Julia Hobsbawm in Manhattan about AI trends at work, why we still need an office but how it’s changed, and what the jobs of the future may look like. Co-hosted with Stefan Stern, a Fully Connected Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Dec 06, 2023•33 min
Joining Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern today in the second of our AI specials brought to you in association with PwC UK is Azeem Azhar, Global Futurist and AI expert who hosts the Bloomberg Originals series Exponentially , and whose newsletter Exponential View is one of the first technology watchers turn to for the latests twists and turns in AI. Azeem is Co-Chair, Global Futures Council on Complex Risks, World Economic Forum and we also get a response to his current take from Ben Higgin, PwC U...
Nov 22, 2023•42 min
A special programme in association with PwC UK to look at developments around AI at work and in society, linked to the UK AI Safety Summit hosted at Bletchley Park, England at the beginning of November 2023. Co-hosts Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern were joined in studio by Ben Higgin, Head of Technology & Investment PwC UK, and Alice Thwaite, technology ethicist and philosopher to ask just how different this moment is in the story of technology in society and at work, how risks and rights ca...
Nov 21, 2023•35 min
In this episode co-hosted by Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern, Julia goes to California to the 2023 Implications of Remote Work Conference hosted at Stanford University by the Hoover Institution and Stanford Institute for Economic and Policy Research Conference (SIEPR). Guests include Professors Steve J. Davis of Hoover Institution; Jan Brockner of University of California, Irvine; the future of work consultant and Linked In ‘Top Voice’ Brian Elliott; and Emma Goldberg, the acclaimed reporter on ...
Oct 23, 2023•28 min
We dip back across the ocean today with our Series 5 partner Ashore.io to discuss with founder Aled Maclean-Jones what working in a hybrid way out of both office and home means. We also discuss generational shifts in work with Eleanor Mills, founder of Noon, the website for midlife women. Join co-hosts Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern for a lively fun discussion this episode. Lots of laughing! Series partner: www.ashore.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Sep 25, 2023•39 min
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...
Sep 11, 2023•38 min
The 5th series of our podcast which looks at the past, present and of course the future of work begins with an American theme to tie in with Labor Day 2023. Our guest is Rob Sadow, Co-Founder and CEO of flexible working tech tool company Scoop, a Top LinkedIn Voice on Flexible Work and founder of the acclaimed Flex Index who joins Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern to pore over the latest data and opinion about the adoption of hybrid working. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.c...
Sep 04, 2023•34 min
A one-off special between series, a long conversation with Kevin Ellis of PWC, Chairman and Senior Partner of UK and Middle East who is candid on all aspects of the return to office and hybrid working dilemmas, challenges and opportunities he sees in the post pandemic moment. It’s all about Culture, Talent and Networks he says to Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
May 22, 2023•27 min
In this final episode of series 4, recorded on the third anniversary of UK lockdown from Covid-19, co-hosts Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern are joined by Tim Oldman and Allison English of Leesman, the world leader in measuring and analysing the experiences of employees in their places of work and they discuss the new project The Hybrid Future, a new longitudinal study into how the workplace is changing and with it society. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Mar 28, 2023•30 min
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 wor...
Mar 27, 2023•35 min
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Mar 19, 2023•33 min
We go back to New York City for this episode, chiefly to talk to Helen Brocklebank, CEO of British luxury trade sector body, Walpole, as she explained to Julia Hobsbawm how talk of the changing nature of work affects every level of her sector. In addition we hear from some New York building representatives and exhibitors at NYBuildExpo to get a flavour of work's rebuild. Presented by Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Mar 12, 2023•29 min
The workplace is changing, this is now undeniable. But how is it changing? In the second in a special series in association with Prospect, the leading British union for professional skilled workers co-hosts Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern look at issues from desks to rights and regions with Alison McGovern MP, Shadow Employment Minister, and Member of Parliament for Wirral South, Adrian Wooldridge, Bloomberg’s Global Business Columnist, as well as Hafsa Begum, Prospect’s Head of Finance and Esta...
Mar 09, 2023•40 min
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 c...
Mar 05, 2023•28 min
At the heart of trade union negotiation around work and workplace issues is the resolution of conflict, not the escalation of it. What really happens in sensitive negotiations like this? And how much has the world of work become a conflict zone for rights in the post-pandemic workplace? This is the first in a special series in association with Prospect, the leading British union for professional skilled workers. Co-Hosts Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern dive deep with Mike Clancy, Prospect's Gene...
Mar 01, 2023•46 min
Today Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern are joined by the acclaimed author and workplace strategist Gabriella Braun, Director of the consultancy Working Well, whose book All That We Are: Uncovering The Hidden Truths behind our behaviour at work covers some of her riveting first hand experience uncovering the emotional subtext behind what really happens inside organisations from the boardroom down. They discuss whether post pandemic people are more or less willing to face what they really feel abou...
Feb 19, 2023•27 min
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/ad...
Feb 16, 2023•31 min
This episode The Nowhere Officers Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern have the pleasure of speaking with Frauke Von Polier, voted Europe’s Chief Human Resources Officer of the Year 2022, and Chief People Officer for German-based manufacturing company Viessman Group. She discusses in candid detail the priorities today, and the value of teams over the individual. An HR-must-listen! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Feb 05, 2023•29 min
In today’s episode co-hosted by Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern, we bring you a special fireside chat with Roger Martin, a recipient of the No 1 Management Thinker in the World accolade from Thinkers 50, a Professor Emeritus at the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto and bestselling author of books such as A New Way To Think and When More is Not Better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Jan 29, 2023•22 min
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 Nether...
Jan 23, 2023•34 min
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 23, 2023•35 min
In our second day of exclusive access to The World Economic Forum’s speakers and participants discussing the future of work we have an exclusive interview with His Excellency Ahmad Belhoul Al Falasi, Minister of Education, UAE, as well as contributions from the world of high tech, LGBTQ Human Rights and the UN’s mission on Water. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 23, 2023•32 min
In today’s episode we talk to media industry veteran Gideon Spanier, multi-award-winning UK editor-in-chief of Campaign, the bible of the advertising industry, and editorial director of PodPod about the business of podcasting. Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern are joined by Joanna Swash, Group CEO of Moneypenny (the call and live chat experts) to put Gideon through his paces and talk to him about the changes in media and adland, and how he personally manages a team through hybrid’s hard management...
Jan 16, 2023•32 min
Konrad Bergström, one of the Nordic region's most successful tech entrepreneurs. A recipient of the Swedish King’s medal for services to entrepreneurship and charity, Konrad is best known outside of Sweden for founding electric boat manufacturer X Shore ( www.xshore.com ) - dubbed 'the Tesla of the sea' and Zound Industries ( www.zoundindustries.com ) — the Swedish tech giant that produces consumer electronics for Marshall Amplification and Adidas. He now spends a lot of time on Soeder, the natu...
Jan 09, 2023•33 min
We close the calendar year of 2022 with a 1:1 with business leader Joanna Swash, Group CEO of leading telephone answering and live chat company Moneypenny, as well as member of the Prime Minister’s Business Council, the Forbes Business Council, a CBI Council member and a judge of EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 19, 2022•26 min
