New Territory: The Future of (my) Work
Why I'm introducing a new paid tier to this Substack (and what you will get if you join other readers in my growing community of the work-interested and subscribe)
Monday 19 February 2024. Hallo from London where I’m on distinctly terra firma after last week’s trip to the ‘top of the rock’ where I dangled, anxiously, 850 feet about Manhattan (all in the interests of work).
I’d like to tell you a little more about the new paid model I’m beginning here on Substack. Free subscribers will continue to receive the odd post, including some of the archive links to previous Nowhere Office podcasts. But for those who’d like more…
Given how much there is to stay up to speed with - it is like trying to catch a snowflake in a blizzard - but as I’m in the middle of that blizzard in terms of daily data, briefings, reading and absorbing I want to share it more frequently.
You can still find my columns on Bloomberg’s Work Shift, but I’m experimenting with producing some content exclusively for Substack which will distill the past, present and future of work for you on a twice-weekly basis - from the latest books to the trends from RTO and hybrid to AI adoption and what the latest academic research is.
BOOK REVIEWS AND AUTHOR INTERVIEWS
I have long wanted to cover the range of books I read and some of the chats I have with authors and this will be the place to do it - that’s the plan anyway!
The Nowhere Office podcast will begin it’s sixth series but paid subscribers here will get unique interviews first, and as part of the package for subscribers from around the world of work (literally) in business, academia, media, and across the generations.
Regarding trends, news, and ideas about work consider this your go-to place on Substack: both in terms of actionable ideas and the intellectual developments happening. Of which there are many. Not in a century has this space been so in flux, so ‘Nowhere’. Here we are in the Here and Now.
There are always developments, but they are coming thick and fast: in the UK a new flexible working bill is coming in to play and possibly a new Government with a pro-worker agenda - what will that mean for those who argue hybrid work is “shirking from home”? The US perspective in a fraught election year in which the US economy grows but so too does worker discontent; and around the world, from the 4 Day Week in Germany to the ‘procrastination cafe’ in Japan…..I hope I will be your work tour guide on a more regular basis.
There willl also be special guest posts!
Of course occasional posts will continue. But I’d like to think that this Substack is the home from home for my weekly publishing and podcasting about the past, present and future of work - and I hope you will join me.
My best,
