The Nowhere Office

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. T...

One of the most vexed questions raised by The Nowhere Office is what happens to office space. Our regular hosts Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern are joined by guest presenter Joanna Swash, Group CEO of Moneypenny, the live call and chat experts to probe and explore the complexity of the topic with Michael Creamer, whose property-related portfolio of roles includes being Chairman, Global Occupier Se...

This episode The Nowhere Officers Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern have the pleasure of speaking with Frauke Von Polier, voted Europe’s Chief Human Resources Officer of the Year 2022, and Chief People Officer for German-based manufacturing company Viessman Group. She discusses in candid detail the priorities today, and the value of teams over the individual. An HR-must-listen! Learn more about your...

In today’s episode co-hosted by Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern, we bring you a special fireside chat with Roger Martin, a recipient of the No 1 Management Thinker in the World accolade from Thinkers 50, a Professor Emeritus at the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto  and bestselling author of books such as A New Way To Think and When More is Not Better. Learn more about your ad c...

In the first of three special dispatches from the World Economic Forum, The Nowhere Office captures the mood of leaders and movers and shakers on the future of work, including exclusive chats with McKinsey’s Chief People Officer, Katy George, and Kweilin Ellingrud, Director of the McKinsey Global Institute. And we bring you, too, contributions from celebrated organisational psychologist Adam Grant...

In the final of three special dispatches from the World Economic Forum, The Nowhere Office had an exclusive interview with Greg Tomb, President of Zoom, arguably the company which is most associated with the workplace revolution which has happened since Covid-19 started – a transformation which is clearly continuing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In our second day of exclusive access to The World Economic Forum’s speakers and participants discussing the future of work we have an exclusive interview with His Excellency Ahmad Belhoul Al Falasi, Minister of Education, UAE, as well as contributions from the world of high tech, LGBTQ Human Rights and the UN’s mission on Water. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In today’s episode we talk to media industry veteran Gideon Spanier, multi-award-winning UK editor-in-chief of Campaign, the bible of the advertising industry, and editorial director of PodPod about the business of podcasting. Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern are joined by Joanna Swash, Group CEO of Moneypenny (the call and live chat experts) to put Gideon through his paces and talk to him about th...

Konrad Bergström, one of the Nordic region's most successful tech entrepreneurs. A recipient of the Swedish King’s medal for services to entrepreneurship and charity, Konrad is best known outside of Sweden for founding electric boat manufacturer X Shore ( www.xshore.com ) - dubbed 'the Tesla of the sea' and Zound Industries ( www.zoundindustries.com ) — the Swedish tech giant that produces consume...

We close the calendar year of 2022 with a 1:1 with business leader Joanna Swash, Group CEO of leading telephone answering and live chat company Moneypenny, as well as member of the Prime Minister’s Business Council, the Forbes Business Council, a CBI Council member and a judge of EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We go back to the Global Drucker Forum in Vienna for this episode where we hear from two gurus: Rita McGrath, bestselling author, distinguished Columbia Business School professor ranked #1 by Thinkers 50 on strategy, and Gary Hamel, one of the biggest names in management consultancy in the world, whose most recent bestselling books are Humanocracy and The Future of Management. Learn more about you...

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...

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...

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 wi...

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 expe...

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...

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...

On the eve of the second anniversary of the pandemic we ask: How has Hybrid ended up working out? And we look into our crystal balls to ask: Where will we go from here? To help us, we are joined for a 1:1 interview with Tera Allas, the economist and Director of Research and economics at McKinsey United Kingdom. Then we have an insightful panel discussion with Joanna Swash, Group CEO of Moneypenny,...

Hybrid is probably the steepest learning curve for managers and employees for a generation. But how can we make this work? How can we find identity and meaning in a hybrid world? And how can tech guide us through these uncertain times? Joining the Nowhere Office in this episode are Professor Laura Empson, Director of the Centre for Professional Service Firms at Bayes Business School, Jeremy Dalton...

Today, we're going freelance. Some studies suggest that over 50% of the world's service sector is likely to be freelance by 2030. What does going freelance mean and what are the differences and lessons to learn from in-house teams? Helping us to answer those questions is the journalist, writer and comedian, Viv Groskop, Josh Greene, the CEO and Co-Founder of Groove, an online coworking community,...

In this episode, we turn our attention to the topic of working culture. One of the biggest challenge for organisations is office life post pandemic and specifically cultural cohesion. We look at some case studies to find out who is doing what. Joining us first, in real life, is the founder of HR Tech company, Wellbees, Melis Abacıoğlu. And that is followed by a wonderful panel discussion with Rich...