The Nowhere Office

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

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

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

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

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

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices