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The Importance of Touch
Are you touch starved? Do you feel a touch hunger in your life? Michael Banissy is a psychologist whose work focusses on the importance of physical connection between people, he styles himself as part of a group of ‘scientists who stroke’. Touch has become sigmatised by the actions of those who have misused it, to…
Langland presentation
Thanks for attending my presentation today. Here are some of the links I discussed: Firstly here’s Charles Duhig talking about the study into psychological safety at a big firm Give the Pomodoro method a go. Here are some apps for it. Some coverage of the latest discussion on 4 day weeks – including coverage of…
Work as a spectator sport
As lockdown time goes on more workers are reporting demands that they ‘show up’ digitally in different situations associated with their job. Whether showing they are at their machine working by having their green light on in Slack, or Google Chat (green is currently active, rather than greyed out for ‘away’), or attending team drinks/quizzes…
Announcing Eat Sleep Work Repeat – the book
After an outstanding year of release in the UK – where The Joy of Work has been the #1 best selling business hardback of 2019 – I’m delighted that the book will be released in the US on February 25 2020. The title in the US will be called, Eat Sleep Work Repeat and will…
What work can learn from Comic Con
Also: the Self/Other overlap and hot reads of the week Share Make Work Better Taking stock of three months of WFH What do we make of the changes to work? Looking at the data it’s hard to see us going back. Some research out this week gives us some pointers. According to the survey conducted by…
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RTO mandates are caused by middle aged men not liking their wives
Delighted to post this small conversation with Nick Shackleton-Jones. Nick posts brilliantly witty rants on TikTok that are just the best things I hear about work and the futility of bureaucracy. TikTok is a fame machine and if creators drop a banger they can end up reaching a vast audience. Nick has posted some content…
