The Nowhere Office

On The Nowhere Office , Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern dive into the essential news from the world of work, covering the UK Government’s new employment plan, the dockworkers’ strike and union power in the US, and return-to-office mandates from the likes of Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.  Julia channels her inner Kemi Badenoch and Stefan offers sage advice from the world of management. Also joining the co...

Given that hybrid working is here to stay we hear from one of the leading companies providing smart video conferencing which makes everyone feel that bit more connected – Frank Weishaupt, CEO of Boston-based Owl Labs, who gives a highly informative and data-rich interview covering everything from attitudes to flexible work through to whether we’ll all be meeting in the Metaverse in the future – or...

Wouldn't work be great if the human was put at the heart of the experience of working? And how do the all-too-human issues of conflict and difference play their part in well running workplaces with satisfied workers and customers?  In a wide-ranging and candid discussion KeyAnna Schmiedel, Chief Human Experience Officer of leading talent and employee reward and recognition platform Workhuman talks...

Plus: My Working Life with Tina Fordham 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 featur...

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 an...

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...

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...

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. V...

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...

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...

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...

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 Co...

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...

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 wo...

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! Se...

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 underlyi...

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 op...

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. V...

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 cha...

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 Se...

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...

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 Hobsbaw...

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 Wooldridg...

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...

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 s...