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This episode sees Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern discuss whether a 32-hour working week with no loss of pay can work across the board and if not why not? To argue the case they are joined by Joe Ryle of 4dayweek the British campaign. Also in this episode we hear about how geopolitical strategist Tina Fordham of Fordham Global Foresight works in a new feature bringing a snapshot of working life to our audience. My Working Life is brought to you in association with Whitefox: exceptional publishers for exceptional stories: find out more at wearewhitefox.com

We begin a brand new series this spring with the wisdom and optimism of one of the great legends in HR
practice, strategy, and thought leadership: Josh Bersin.

Josh is often cited as one of the leading HR and workplace
industry analysts in the world. Most recently, Bersin launched the Josh Bersin Academy, the world’s first global development academy for HR and talent professionals at all levels and across all industries.

You can listen to the beginning of this interview and then head for more content and additional material to The Nowhere Office with Julia Hobsbawm on Substack.

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 Center For Technology and Democracy.

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.

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

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.