Long hours and loneliness - fixing workplace misery
Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture
Bruce Daisley
4.7 • 989 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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This is a podcast about making work better.
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Here we go, two little things today to make you feel more brainy. It’s Blue Monday in the UK today - the day when we’re told it’s the most miserable day of the year - when we hate our job. By listening to these experts you’ll have some guidelines how you can make work better. They give solutions but I think once you listen to the data you’ll work out what to do yourselves.
Firstly something that might not seem directly connected to people in work initially but it’s about loneliness. Julianne Holt-Lunstad, is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Brigham Young University. We start talking about the problem of loneliness in society and we go on to consider how loneliness is growing in work.
Next I wanted to talk to two researchers who have set about investigating if working long hours - or working harder leads to greater workplace success. The authors of the paper are the brilliant Argyro Avgoustaki from ESCP Europe and Hans Frankort from Cass Business School
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| 0:27.7 | Registered reference number 9,000846. Hello this is Eat Sleep Work Repeat, I'm Bruce Tazley. Here's why youazley here you're either here because you want to make |
| 0:45.3 | work better and that might be for you or it might be for your team or you just kind of |
| 0:51.0 | interested in the science of making work better and someone |
| 0:54.4 | suggested you come along here or maybe you came here before and you've liked some of |
| 0:58.7 | the episodes and you've decided to come for another one. Well thank you for coming |
| 1:02.4 | back and it's really |
| 1:03.6 | appreciated. As I dropped this it's Blue Monday in the UK and that's the day we're |
| 1:07.9 | told that it's the most miserable day of the year. Marketing |
| 1:10.8 | construction you might say. |
| 1:12.6 | Well, even if it is, then isn't it an appropriate time to draw attention to how bad work is for a lot of us. |
| 1:19.3 | I was chatting to someone last week and they were saying how miserable the working existence is at |
| 1:24.1 | their work and that's what we're trying to change here. So if you know someone who's |
| 1:28.9 | just having a tough time from work the objective of this podcast is just to give a bit of evidence and I was |
| 1:35.5 | thinking about this so I'm thrilled and I'm immensely grateful for everyone who |
| 1:39.6 | bought the book the joy of work last week.-sales were way beyond what anyone expected. |
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