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🗓️ 20 April 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Rutger Bregman’s Humankind was my favourite book of 2020 and it comes out in paperback next month. A brilliant read (that also works wonderfully as an audiobook) it will appeal to fans of Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens or anyone who wants a provocative, thoughtful summer read.
To mark the paperback release I spoke to him about universal basic income, the way that we've worked in lockdown, and why we turn our backs to lots of evidence that humans are innately kind, decent beings.
Rutger's brilliant book Humankind is out in paperback in May 2021. For a full transcript of this interview go to the website.
Rutger mentions he's written recently about the end of neoliberalism - you can read that here.
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0:00.0 | This is Eat Sleep Work Repeat, a podcast about making work better. |
0:10.0 | Hello, how you doing? Hope you're all. Hope you're well. if you're in the UK then we've had just our first |
0:16.7 | week of freedom I went out in soho looked like something of a super spreader event I |
0:22.2 | cowered in the corner of an outdoor |
0:25.0 | table as people around me were hugging and a kissing like it was the last days of Rome. |
0:32.2 | But fingers crossed nothing untoward happens and then I had some |
0:35.0 | along the way I had some tapas and some tacos so those people who told me |
0:39.2 | when we got to November last year you know I didn't go out in that time when we were allowed to. I am eating |
0:47.1 | lunches on your behalf. I'm consider it my act of patriotism to keep the economy going. |
0:55.6 | And if you are interested in work and workplace culture, one place that I could direct you is the |
1:00.7 | newsletter and you'll find that at eat sleep work repeat.com. |
1:04.3 | This week I published some some brand new |
1:08.0 | a sort of exclusive evidence today that firms who are less inclusive are making less progressive |
1:18.8 | policies when it comes to flexible working and this is from some data that someone who's chosen to remain anonymous |
1:25.1 | sent me from where she works in Melbourne, Australia. And she'd done some analysis of some |
1:31.2 | firms in the infrastructure and in the consulting sectors of what their |
1:37.6 | gender balance was in terms of what's published and yet and then their |
1:42.1 | policies with regards to flexible working and what she discovered was the more the better gender balance you've got the more likely you are to have adopted a flexible work in policy. |
1:53.0 | You'll find that on the newsletter that goes out from eat sleep work repeat.com |
1:58.0 | really brilliant compelling data. |
2:01.0 | If you're finding your bus is not interested in adopting flexible |
2:06.0 | working, then I think this is the illustration that that is probably because it's a male privilege |
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