Green Thinking: Future of Work
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
How green is office working? Have changes since Covid helped us plan for a more environmentally friendly way of working?
Philosopher Dr Alexander Douglas and Dr Jane Parry, who works on Work after Lockdown, talk to Des Fitzgerald about the future of work in a post-Covid-19 world and the implications for our environment.
Dr Alexander Douglas is a Lecturer in Philosophy in the School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies at the University of St Andrews. He is a founder and co-director of the Future of Work and Income Research Network (funded by AHRC) at the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs.
Dr Jane Parry is a Lecturer and Director of Research for HRM and Organisational Behaviour within Southampton Business School at the University of Southampton. She is the Principal Investigator on the project, Work after Lockdown, which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (part of UKRI). You can read more about the project and contribute to their worker wellbeing survey at https://www.workafterlockdown.uk/participate.
Professor Des Fitzgerald is a New Generation Thinker based at the University of Exeter.
You can find a new podcast series Green Thinking: 26 episodes 26 minutes long in the run up to COP26 made in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UKRI, exploring the latest research and ideas around understanding and tackling the climate and nature emergency. New Generation Thinkers Des Fitzgerald and Eleanor Barraclough will be in conversation with researchers on a wide-range of subjects from cryptocurrencies and finance to eco poetry and fast fashion.
The podcasts are all available from the Arts & Ideas podcast feed - and collected on the Free Thinking website under Green Thinking where you can also find programmes on mushrooms, forests, rivers, eco-criticism and soil. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07zg0r2
For more information about the research the AHRC’s supports around climate change and the natural world you can visit: Responding to climate change – UKRI or follow @ahrcpress on twitter. To join the discussion about the research covered in this podcast and the series please use the hashtag #GreenThinkingPodcast.
Producer: Marcus Smith
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| 0:36.6 | Hello, I'm Des Fitzgerald, and welcome to this episode of Green Thinking, where we're looking at new research that sheds light on new stories like this one. |
| 0:44.3 | Across the country, empty streets and empty office towers don't just mean a change in how we work. |
| 0:49.3 | Entire communities have relocated to new places. A corporate headquarters can put tens of billions into local economies. |
| 0:57.0 | In Charlotte, Bank of America has 180,000 employees working from home during the pandemic. |
| 1:03.0 | Austin-based Dell expects more than half of their 160,000 staffers to never go back to their desks. |
| 1:10.0 | Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, Google and Facebook have announced that most of their |
| 1:15.1 | workers will be at home for the rest of the year. |
| 1:17.9 | But Twitter has announced that its workers will be at home from now on. |
| 1:22.2 | And that's going to have an enormous impact, far beyond just empty desks in a building like |
| 1:26.4 | this. |
| 1:27.3 | That was an ABC news report from earlier this year on the future of work in a post-COVID world. |
| 1:33.5 | The Future of Work is our topic today. |
| 1:35.8 | I'm joined by Dr. Jane Parry, Director of the Centre for Research on Work and Organizations at the University of Southampton, |
| 1:42.3 | and also by Dr. Alexander Douglas, lecture in philosophy at the University of St.pton, and also by Dr. Alexander Douglas, |
| 1:47.1 | lecture in philosophy at the University of St. Andrews. |
| 1:47.6 | Hello. |
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