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Politics Unpacked

WTF did WFH do to UK?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News, Politics, News & Politics

4.11.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Matt is working from home today...a rare occasion for him but not for millions of people . Stanford economist and world leading expert in remote working Nick Bloom explains the impact changing work patterns will have on the railways, golf courses and why it could lead to a total rewiring of the state.


Plus: Columnists India Knight and James Marriott discuss whether the 20s are better than the 60s, if they would get in a self-driving car, and Theresa May's cookbook collection.


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0:00.0

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0:20.1

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0:30.0

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0:40.0

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0:45.7

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1:03.1

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1:17.6

Hello this is the Webbox podcast, I'm Matt surely bringing you the rest of my times where they're

1:21.6

showing you can listen live Monday to Friday 10 to 1 on your DAB radio on your smart speaker

1:27.1

or download the times radio app. Coming up on today's episode, but unusual for this,

1:31.0

not a refrigerator so I was brought to in the show from home today. We've been taking a look at

1:34.8

working from home, speaking to a world leader in working from home, the Professor Nick Bloom,

1:39.1

apparently we need to rewire not just about everything, so really, really interesting

1:42.7

into coming up with him in just a moment. We'll speak to Indianite and James Marriott as well,

1:47.4

getting there take on news. But first let's be honest, we always do on a Friday. Let's take a look

1:50.8

at what we learned this week. We learned them might be Chinese spies working in parliament.

2:02.9

Well, the walls having ears would make a change in the ceiling having cracks in it. Yes,

2:06.8

we learned that the Palace of Westminster has rack concrete, so I asked

2:11.2

Lawrence the well and Bowen what he would do to smarten the place up of it.

2:15.5

What we should really be doing with the houses of parliament is it's basically just open it up for

2:19.9

two or changing rooms makeover. You know, forget the black concrete, forget the

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