Podcasts

November 23, 2022

How The Future Works: Workstyle

Eleanor and Barry Matthews discuss topical news including the Autumn statement from the UK chancellor and the recent happenings at Twitter. Their guests this week are Lizzie Penny and Alex Hirst, authors of Sunday Times bestselling book Workstyle: a revolution for wellbeing, productivity and society. Lizzie and Alex tell their stories and why they felt compelled to create a new word to describe an autonomous way of working, reorientating work to fit around your life instead of the other way around. They also describe Hoxby, the purpose-led company they have built around this philosophy and of course talk about their first jobs, worst jobs and life hacks.

November 17, 2022

WORK. with Vikram Ashok, Founder and CEO of Graphite

This episode of the WORK. podcast, John Winsor sits down with Vikram Ashok. Vik is the Founder and CEO of Graphite, a platform enabling seamless access to the world’s best independent talent. Fortune 1000 companies, professional services and investment firms turn to Graphite to access hard-to-find skills and expertise. To alleviate bandwidth constraints. And, drive major organizational change, innovate faster and build a modern workforce of highly skilled remote talent.

November 03, 2022

How The Future Works: Disrupting Staffing

Eleanor and Barry Matthews discuss the UK Government’s IR35 hokey cokey and the latest industry facts and figures from Staffing Industry Analysts, before welcoming guests, Casey McElroy and Sam Orrin from Worksome. Worksome defies classification and fits into a number of the industry’s boxes, so we explore where it fits, what makes it different and what the future holds for the company that is on a mission to reduce friction between companies and their external workforce.

November 02, 2022

WORK. with Tammy Browning, President of KellyOCG

This episode of the WORK. podcast welcomes Tammy Browning, the President of KellyOCG. Kelly OCG is the he outsourcing and consulting business of Kelly, and Tammy is responsible for the company’s more than $10 billion global MSP portfolio. She is always seeking new ways to add value for her customers by helping them discover what’s next in the future of work. She is passionate about the opportunity to change lives and provide talent with purposeful work.

October 07, 2022

How The Future Works: The Podcast Podcast

In this episode Barry and Eleanor talk to Neil Hughes, LinkedIn Top Voice winner, prolific podcaster and all round nice chap. They talk about the extraordinary growth in podcasting, how it can be a useful tool for promotion and profile-building for freelancers and how to find enough motivation and inspiration to record every day. They also pick apart the recent changes in IR35 and what it will mean to UK freelancers if and when it is executed.

September 12, 2022

How The Future Works: Bees, Trees and the Waggle Dance – Open Innovation in action

In this episode of How The Future Works, Eleanor and Barry are joined by Tanveer Mohammed UST UK’s head of Innovation.  They discuss how the open innovation model enables UST to collaborate with employees, customers and targeted groups of external experts who can all contribute to solving challenges on behalf of UST’s clients.  They discuss how UST is using open innovation to solve problems related to fraud associated with deep fakes and malicious use of AI, as well as a range of diverse client challenges.

The team also discuss their plans for The Great North Run, the new PM and Tanveer’s 5×10 round.

August 28, 2022

How The Future Works: Holding out for a Hero?

In this episode of How The Future Works Eleanor and Barry meet Kal Sahota, CEO of Open Innovation platform HeroX. She explains how organisations tap into solvers from around the world to find the answers to their big conundrums. As a completely open crowd, the solvers (or Heros) compete for prize money, but as Kal explains their motivation is more about being part of something bigger and the intellectual challenge.

They also discuss Barry’s recent trip to Boulder, Colorado, and Eleanor’s resulting FOMO.

August 17, 2022

WORK. with Simon Hill, CEO and Founder of Wazoku

On this episode of the WORK podcast we welcome back Simon Hill, the founder and CEO of Wazoku.  Wazoku is an idea management and open innovation platform which enables organizations of any size to drive innovation at scale. John Winsor interviewed Simon two years ago and much has happened since then. 

August 11, 2022

How The Future Works: Freelance doesn’t mean free

In this episode of How The Future Works, Eleanor and Barry meet Matt Dowling, founder of The Freelancer Club and find out more about how the expectation of work for free is a real thing in the freelance industry for creatives. Their #NOFREEWORK movement aims to put an end to that expectation and was born from Matt’s own experience of being ripped off by a client.

They also discuss Upwork’s upcoming Work Without Limits event, lightbulbs going on in a family-run brewing company and possibly the best ever worst job.

August 05, 2022

WORK. with Rich Wilson, CEO and Co-founder of Gigged.AI

This episode WORK. podcast features Rich Wilson, the CEO and Co-founder of Gigged.AI. Gigged.AI is an ecosystem to make tech talent hiring easier by using Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain technologies. Rich is an experienced leader who has had senior positions with Allegis Group and Gartner, and is passionate about mental health, technology and the future of work.