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Far less frequently than would bother you. Here’s the quickest way to get the latest on the podcast, workplace culture and ways to fix your workplace.

Gen Z have been shaped by recessions, the pandemic, geopolitical instability, not to mention financial insecurity and world changing technology. That’s the finding of the Edelman Gen Z Lab as told to me by the leader of the project Jackie Cooper. Most powerfully she explains that Gen Z’s have a ‘visceral need for safety’ –…

Last week’s post was all about the end of office culture (whether we want it or not). After it went out I chatted to a good friend of mine, he said that his company employed somewhere between 1200 and 1500 people in a city centre location producing daily media content. “We have produced the same high…

I was in Beirut this time last week (I give a first hand account here – this photo was 30 yards from our Airbnb) and I wasn’t going to send a newsletter this week but here’s a selection of some great links I’ve seen in the last couple of days that I’ve loved reading. DESTINATION…

Over the last week we’ve all watched far too much footage of the horrific scenes of the US Capitol being stormed. A mob of thousands of people charged in to the seat of American democracy intent – depending on how forgiving you intend to be -with either staging a coup or forcefully registering their disapproval….

Simon Gilbody talks loneliness at work Professor Simon Gilbody is a psychiatrist and clinical epidemiologist at the University of York. His work specialises in ‘taking a population approach to mental health’, trying to understand the aspects of modern life that contribute to how we feel. I was impressed by a talk that Simon did with…

Go deep with the happiness playlist Catherine Price says why it might be time to rebalance your life Catherine Price is a science and health writer who has written a couple of sensationally timely books. Firstly How to Break Up With Your Phone Secondly, and today’s discussion focusses on this, The Power of Fun This…