Culture and conditions under the radar - tales from the gig economy
Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture
Bruce Daisley
4.7 • 989 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
James Bloodworth lived undercover working in Amazon warehouses, care homes and clocked up hours as an Uber driver to see the realities of modern work for millions of Brits. It makes for a fascinating glimpse at the lives of people who often get ignored from the privilege of the open plan.
James' compelling book Hired is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | If you run a restaurant in London, you need to know about Square. |
| 0:03.4 | The integrated point of sale system built four restaurants. |
| 0:06.7 | It's payments, point of sale and reporting all in one. |
| 0:10.1 | It also connects your front and back of house, which you nail every order and Square's reporting feature can help you save hours on accounting every week. |
| 0:18.0 | Join at Square.com. Square, big in restaurants. |
| 0:22.0 | Square Up Europe Limited is authorized by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Electronic |
| 0:26.1 | Money Regulations 2011. |
| 0:27.7 | Registered reference number 900846. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello there, this is Eat Sleep Workopy I'm Bruce Dasley |
| 0:35.0 | it's a podcast about making work better. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello everyone. |
| 0:41.0 | Have you ever thought maybe a podcast about fixing workplace |
| 0:45.1 | culture is all a bit first world problems and these bigger fish to fry, bigger |
| 0:49.7 | stuff going on, then today's episode might be for you. |
| 0:53.0 | Obviously I'm aware that we spent a lot of time chatting about different cultures, different |
| 0:57.3 | organizations, different ways that we can try and improve the circumstances we work in. But you might think, you know, in a world with zero |
| 1:06.0 | hours contract, a world with people struggling to put food on the table, with food banks |
| 1:11.6 | being more frequented than ever before. |
| 1:14.4 | Isn't this all luxury? |
| 1:16.4 | Well, that's what I wanted to understand. |
| 1:18.8 | I saw some really brilliant coverage, lifting some work by a guy called James |
| 1:23.8 | Bloodworth and James Bloodworth wrote a book called Hyad where he effectively |
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