Work Undone: what happens now? A discussion with Prof Dan Cable
Eat Sleep Work Repeat
Bruce Daisley
4.7 • 989 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
"Purpose is something that can be found but cannot be given"
For this episode I talk with London Business School professor Dan Cable about what work is going to look like in the future as we contemplate the fall out of coronavirus and homeworking. Clearly a lot of firms aren't going to make it through this completely unprecedented situation and to some extent maybe these discussions might seem like first world problems. The intention is to help us understand how we can use this moment to make work better - never waste a good crisis - as we say in the show.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello this is Eat Sleep Work Repeat. I'm Bruce Dasley, it's a podcast about making work better. |
| 0:08.0 | Presumably you're on some form of lockdown yourself and actually thinking about normal work might seem a long way away. |
| 0:15.6 | Big thing for me is managing your snacking. |
| 0:18.3 | This seems to be the big issue. |
| 0:20.3 | Just avoiding just having one more bag of microwave popcorn. |
| 0:23.5 | That seems to be the critical thing of getting through the day. |
| 0:26.1 | That's my personal issue. |
| 0:27.3 | Spending time at home makes you reflect on things that you never really thought that much about before. |
| 0:32.1 | Why is it that the moment you buy a new mug, |
| 0:34.8 | you end up treating all the other mugs like losers. |
| 0:37.8 | I worry about what sort of person I am |
| 0:39.5 | by the way I ditch the older mugs |
| 0:41.2 | when a new mug pulls into town. Anyway to try and sort of alleviate things |
| 0:45.3 | last week I put out an episode with Christy Watson she's a former nurse talking about that |
| 0:50.8 | profession and largely I'll put it out out is lovely chat but it's a tribute to the great job they do. |
| 0:57.0 | This episode I'm talking with London Business School |
| 1:00.0 | Professor Dan Cable about what work's going to look like in the future as we |
| 1:03.9 | contemplate the fallout of coronavirus and home working. Clearly a lot of firms |
| 1:09.6 | aren't going to make it through this completely unprecedented situation and to some |
| 1:13.6 | extent maybe these discussions might seem like first world problems. |
| 1:16.9 | The intention is to help us understand how we we might use this moment to make work |
| 1:21.4 | better never waste a good crisis as we say in the show, but I don't |
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