The Nowhere Office

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.com/adchoices

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

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

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 workplace. Has digital working made life harder or easier for those in and outside offices? Plus perspective from Prospect’s Andrew Pakes, Deputy General Secretary and Director of Communications and Research. A Fully Connected production executive produced by Julia Hobsbawm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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

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

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 Estates who takes us on a tour of the next generation trade union building, and once again perspective from Prospect’s Andrew Pakes, Deputy General Secretary and Director of Communications and Research and celebrated barrister Jamie Susskind of 11KBW chambers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 coaching, psychology and behaviour change at work and Octavius pulls no punches! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 General Secretary and Andrew Pakes, Deputy General Secretary plus guests Sarah O’Connor of the Financial Times and barrister Jamie Susskind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 about work and at work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices