The Nowhere Office

We look into the future today with Jo Constantz, reporter for Bloomberg’s Workshift on all the latest trends emerging from the world of work and in particular what GenZ is thinking and doing, and ask: how different are the generational perspectives anyway when it comes to the workplace? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We continue to take a read from around the world regarding hybrid and how it is working out with Eric Hazan, Senior Partner and European Executive Board member of McKinsey in Paris. Don’t forget to subscribe and like us please and also follow us on Twitter: @thenowhereoffi1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

First of two special episodes recorded in Vienna at the Global Drucker Forum, the conference looking at the future of work from the perspective of management and leadership. Featuring Professor Amy Edmondson, the Novartis Professor Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, Neelima Mahajan, Editor in Chief of Think:Act Magazine, and Professor Laura Empson, Professor in the Management of Professional Service Firms at Bayes Business School. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What is really getting in the way of fulfilment at work? Happiness? Yes. But according to a new book that means fairness, in every country not just rich ones. A fascinating perspective from Jon Clifton, CEO of world renowned firm GALLOP in conversation with Julia and Stefan. Follow @thenowhereoffi1 on Twitter.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Julia and Stefan are joined by Matthew Boyle, Senior Reporter of Bloomberg’s new dedicated coverage for all things work to pick his brains on the trends, the tribulations  - and the fascinating evolving story at Twitter’s workplace, surely a case study for the decades to come. November 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It is not just the workplace which has changed post-pandemic, but the knowledge worker. The emergence of The Solopreneur is our focus today: the individual who has side hustles, contracted projects, and needs not just a place to work from but people to work with even if they are strangers: for motivation, inspiration, and company in an increasingly remote-first working environment. We explore this question with Josh Greene, founder of the online workspace Groove in conversation with Groove’s community manager Taylor Harrington and community member Bethany Hackmann and with Tobias Batkin, founder of new workspace Work + Play, plus the bestselling writer, broadcaster and solopreneur par excellence Emma Gannon. Learn more about Groove's digital coworking community for solopreneurs by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You can write anywhere, right? The Nowhere Office ought to be perfect for writers. But how does the collaborative business of agenting, publishing, and especially the growing world of audio books work in practice? Does it need an office of any kind? An episode to mark the posthumous publication of the late Jessica Morris’ memoir All in My Head includes unheard of audio of her, plus an interview with her agent, Zoe Pagnamenta, as well as an interview with Kim Sayle, head of Hachette Audio and Alex Soon-Yan-Pang, author of a number of books about work-life identity. Brought to you in association with Hachette Audio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this special episode recorded from Atlanta and Washington, DC, we look closely at the fully flexibly worker and how power is shifting towards them and changing the use of offices and working life as a result. Joining our regular presenters Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern is Duffy Dixon, with guests Karla L.Dixon of the Washington Post; Eric Schurke, CEO, North America of call and live chat experts Moneypenny; Andy Roberts, Principal of property firm Cresa in Atlanta; and Mike Sammond, founder of business podcast network BusinessRadiox in Atlanta. Brought to you in association with Moneypenny. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How did we expect Hybrid working to work out? And what role has technology played as the working world adapts? We explore what the data is telling us and what  lived experience is showing as we round the corner of the end of the pandemic with Alison Wright, who leads the customer and engagement strategy of 99% of UK’s business community for Microsoft; pioneer remote-consulting dentist Ben Cross of Bristol Dentists and Paul Kelly, Microsoft Security Business Group Lead at Microsoft, plus Annie Auerbach, trends consultant and author of Flex: Reinventing Work for a Smarter, Happier Life. Brought to you in association with Microsoft Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Series 3 opens with the view from the C-Suite in a special U.S. episode. As Covid continues to impact the way offices run, and workers signal very clearly they have changed how they want to work we hear from six key business leaders: Anoushka Healy, Chief Strategy Office, News Corporation; Patti Clarke, Global Chief Talent Officer, Havas Group, Joanna Swash, Group Chief Executive, Moneypenny, Rob Burger, Executive Director, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox;Candace Carroll, Chief Financial Officer, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and Jeremy Sirota, CEO, Merlin.  But we open with an in-depth discussion with Nicholas Bloom, William Eberle Professor in Economics, University of Stanford to crunch the latest data for us. Programme Partner: Moneypenny Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices