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Dec 22, 2023 • 38min

DARK AND STORMY – THE CHALLENGES OF FLEXIBLE WORKING

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 megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Dec 18, 2023 • 34min

The Last Job with Roy Bahat of Bloomberg Beta

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 megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Dec 6, 2023 • 33min

Big Picture with Dave Eisenberg

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 megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Nov 22, 2023 • 42min

AI Special With Azeem Azhar in Association with PwC UK

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 UK’s Head of Technology & Investment. A Fully Connected production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Nov 21, 2023 • 35min

AI SPECIAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH PwC UK: Programme 1

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 can be managed alongside growth opportunity.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 23, 2023 • 28min

CALIFORNIA DREAMING (of Work)

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 work for the New York Times.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sep 25, 2023 • 39min

ALL ASHORE!

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 megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sep 11, 2023 • 38min

Work Rebellion: Juliet B.Schor

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sep 4, 2023 • 34min

The Flex Perspective with Rob Sadow

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 megaphone.fm/adchoices
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May 22, 2023 • 27min

The RTO Playbook: Kevin Ellis

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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

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