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Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture

Testing the New Work Manifesto

Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture

Bruce Daisley

Science, Culture, Management, Social Sciences, Work, Business, Workplace Culture

4.7989 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Around 12 months ago myself and Sue Todd created the new work manifesto. It was an attempt to start the debate about simple things that we can change. You can find it on the podcast website eatsleepworkrepeat.fm.


It's had a briliant response, research companies have asked to help validate it, different professions like doctors and police have been in touch asking if they can adapt it for their working. Lots of companies have told me they've been trying it out with their teams.


One person contacted me and offered to share the experience and learnings of the New Work Manifesto in their team. And that was Tom Kegode. I went down one lunch time a few weeks ago to meet Tom and his team at Lloyds Bank Group. Tom is an innovations programme manager who has helped share the new work manifesto across LBG.


You're going to hear discussion of various parts of the manifesto and the way that people at Lloyds are trying to make work more positive and enjoyable. Round the table were Lloyds employees Sam, Kate, Miranda, Verica, Ben, Jess, Heather, Shirley, Alastair, Dave and of course Tom himself.


If you're interested in using the New Work Manifesto it all on the website, it's not copyright. Use it, change it, remix it, edit it but whatever you do please hit me on linked in or via twitter to tell me how you got on.


This is the last in the series. I'll be back after the summer with a stellar list of the people who have done the best research on work, laughter, philosophy and workplace creativity.


if you want to hear those episodes you're best subscribing via your podcast app.


I appreciate you listening. Please do get in touch.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is eat sleep work repeat, a weekly series of podcasts about happiness and work culture.

0:13.0

Hello, this is Bruce Dasely.

0:17.0

I've had a mixed week.

0:18.0

I've been on jury service, which is utterly harrowing,

0:20.0

and makes me want to tear down the penal system.

0:22.0

I also gave the most one out of ten speech ever

0:25.3

an evening standard thing on Wednesday night, a total car crash.

0:28.3

I tried to land something that I thought would make people smile

0:30.8

ended up with a dry mouth and my teeth stick into my gums.

0:34.0

Happens to all of us, I'm sure.

0:36.0

Legged it out there, got the tube home.

0:38.0

So I was reading a research paper the other day.

0:41.0

Someone asked me what I did on my journey somewhere and I showed them the

0:44.9

thing I'd been reading they were pretty disgusted at the joyless life I lead. The paper

0:48.8

was about how the demands of work have changed specifically in the banking industry.

0:53.1

So it was from an ex-banger, the whole of the banking industry has been based on this idea that people

0:57.8

will enter and work 120 or 130 hours a week, sort of effectively working all but seven or six hours a day.

1:06.3

And over the last few years something's changed.

1:08.4

Goldman Sachs have had to ask people to take Saturdays off.

1:11.9

Merrill Lynch, Bank of America has asked people to not work some of the day on Saturday. Why? Because people have

1:17.9

started collapsing and not to make too light of it but it's so extreme one

1:21.8

in turn even died. So what has changed?

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