Julia Hobsbawm – Reimagining workplaces

How do you create the best places to work? A question that leaders of offices and workplaces need to consider in order to evolve. To answer the question, you need to know what the features and characteristics of high performing workplaces look like and what it takes for the culture to enable them.

How do you create the best places to work? This is a question many leaders are asking themselves as they figure out new hybrid environments. To do this, they need to understand the features and characteristics of high performing workplaces and the enabling organisational culture.

In this podcast, Julia Hobsbawm, author of The Nowhere Office and Bloomsburg columnist, gives her insights into the revolution happening with the world of work. She shares her thoughts on where work is heading and how leaders need to listen, ask and iterate to get results.

“There is no hard and fast fixed rule or model anymore. This is what's scaring the pants off people.” – Julia Hobsbawm

You'll hear about:

• What the nowhere office is.
• Obstacles that stop thoughts becoming actions
• What’s going on in the hybrid world.
• What’s happening to the demand of office space.
• Are there winners and losers in the corporate real estate marketplace?
• The change that is in the air.
• Why it’s people that matter, not work.
• How to bring learners and leavers together.

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Julia Hobsbawm is a futurist of work. An award-winning writer, speaker, commentator and consultant, she writes the ‘Working Assumptions’ column for Bloomberg’s Work Shift. And created and co-presents the popular podcast The Nowhere Office. The author of the acclaimed book The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future, She was a founder of the US-led Workforce Institute, and was Chair of the inaugural UK Demos Workshift Commission.

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0:00 START
1:33 – What is the “no-office” argument?
4:11 – Obstacles stopping thoughts become actions
10:06 – There’s no hard and fast model
12:21 – Importance of collaboration
17:24 – The shift from city centre to suburbs
20:11 – Corporate real estate winners and losers
22:36 – Workplace change is happening
27:37 – It’s people that matter
30:21 – Office conflict resolution

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