Spatial Attraction

Summary  Sue Glew joins Kursty to discuss how she’s changing the work environment affecting 52,000 people with a 200 person team after realizing that BT has too many offices. They talk about how the physical workplace environment can influence productivity, why there shouldn’t be a standard way to implement hybrid working, and how BT adapted to COVID-19.  Sue Glew is the head of the Better Workpla...

Summary  Managing Director of Blue Zoo Animation Studio Tom Box joins Kursty to discuss how they almost doubled their staff during the pandemic. They talk about how to successfully set up a hybrid working environment, ensure you are true to your corporate values, and what doesn’t work well when going fully remote.  Tom Box is the co-founder of Blue Zoo Animation Studio and AnimDojo. Blue Zoo anima...

After almost two years of working from home, companies are unsure about what to do with their office space—but Airbus has a plan. Rob Fretwell, Head of Space Management UK for Airbus, joins Kursty to discuss the Airbus Workplace of the Future initiative and tell all about what they are doing to transform the office space by incorporating agile and tailored ways of working.  The workplace tries to...

Head of Workplace Experience at LEGO Tim Ahrensbach joins Kursty to discuss how play can revolutionise the workplace. It is his job to make sure LEGO’s offices are as fun and as awesome as their LEGO sets and throughout the episode, he talks about how he does that.  Tune in to learn:  The six layers of workplace experience;  What it means to play at work; Why being a fully remote workplace might s...

Graham Marshall, Head of Organization Development at Shell, joins Kursty to discuss autonomy in the workplace.  Tune in to learn:  How employment can be a force of good in the world (not just financially);  The worst thing about working from home during the pandemic; Why the demise of the office is completely untrue.  Graham also describes how they developed leaders as role-models during a big HQ...

Masha Osherova, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer at Warner Music Group, joins Kursty to discuss how they survived the digital disruption of the music industry and how that experience enabled a quick and resilient response to the pandemic. Throughout the episode Masha discusses the interesting new approaches to work at Warner Music that were born out of the pandemic.  Tune in to le...

Ange Pattico and Susan Stanley join Kursty to discuss why the future of work is not fully remote. Throughout the conversation, they discuss the adverse effects of long-term remote work on people’s mental health, the importance of physical office space, and ways employees can stay connected when working remotely.  Ange Pattico is Chief People Officer and Susan Stanley is the Head of Space at MVF.  ...

Kate Derrick, Director of Workplace at AstraZeneca, joins Kursty to discuss how AstraZeneca is handling the pandemic in their own workplaces (no, not just in terms of producing the vaccine).  “People drive culture and to keep it remote it’s really difficult to drive that culture”  - Kate Derrick Tune in to learn:  The mindset shift that managers have had to make towards flexible working; How activ...

  Tracy Hawkins, Vice President of Real Estate & Workplace and Remote Experience at Twitter, joins Kursty to discuss whether offices are dead. Tune in to learn:  If you should reduce your office space post-pandemic;  How you can create a workplace culture even if you only work remotely;  How to keep people connected even when everyone is working remotely. Support the show Timestamps [00:19] Ep...

A podcast that charts the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on workplaces. Join author, professor and workplace consultant  Kursty Grovesas she gathers stories and learnings from influential organisations as they tackle the question: will the office ever be the same again? Each episode explores the moments during and post-pandemic when extraordinary people are reimagining and reshaping workplaces...