#374 Julia Hobsbawm: Do We Still Need Offices?

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emma gannon

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🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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My guest today is Julia Hobsbawm: entrepreneur, writer, and consultant who addresses the challenges of this hyper connected age. She is Chair of the content and connection business Editorial Intelligence. She is the author of six bestselling books including The Simplicity Principle and Fully Connected. Today we are discussing her latest book The Nowhere Office, a book that proposes a radical new way of thinking about work both now and in the future. This isn’t an anti-office book but more a look at what the world now looks like: are offices not needed in the same way? What does the future look like? It covers the new challenges of remote working, repurposing offices for more creativity, managing WFH teams and how to work with purpose and greater work/life balance. I really enjoyed it, it reminded me of so much I was writing about in The Multi-Hyphen Method pre-pandemic, so i found it fascinating speaking to her. I hope you enjoy it :)

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0:00.7	This episode of Control or Delete is sponsored by King Fischer, the company behind
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0:58.0	Hello and welcome back to Control or Delete. My guest today is Julia Hobbsborm.
1:02.6	She's an entrepreneur, writer, and consultant who addresses the challenges of this hyper-connected
1:07.8	age. She is the author of six best-selling books, including The Simplicity Principle and Fully
1:13.8	Connected. And today we're discussing her latest book, The No Where Office, a book that proposes
1:19.4	a radical new way of thinking about work, both now and in the future. This isn't an anti-office
1:25.0	book, but it's more a look at what the world now looks like. Our office is now needed in the same
1:29.6	way. What does the future of work look like? It covers the new challenges of remote working,
1:34.9	repurposing offices for more creativity, managing working from home teams, and how to work with
1:40.4	more purpose, and a greater work-life balance. So all the topics that I'm interested in discussing
1:45.7	on this podcast, and it reminded me so much of writing the multi-hiphon method, pre-pandemic,
1:51.7	and talking about all these themes. So it was really great to catch up with Julia about her new book
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