This Working Life

You spend so much time on work, why accept the status quo, when there are ways to do it better? Get expert advice, research and hacks that will crush your inertia.Join Lisa Leong and other This Working Lifers as we experiment and explore the latest in the world of work. We cover policy issues, like hybrid workplaces and remote work, employee wellbeing and organisational culture, the use of AI, employee surveillance, employee engagement, diversity and inclusion. We talk about progress on wider issues that relate to work, like work life balance, organisational change, restructures, and casualisation. On This Working Life our focus is on everything related to the people in a workplace too, including culture, individual experiences, performance management and career advice.

This Working Life is a business podcast hosted by ABC Australia, with 248 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

ABC Australia hosts This Working Life, a business show with 248 episodes published.

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  This Working Life

  It's burnout season!

  Sep 27, 202625 min

  Are you burnt out ... again?! How does it keep coming round like clockwork? We're entering burnout season, and author Karl Treacher agues in his new book Built to Burn that you burning out is a feature of the system, not a bug. Are we facing an epidemic of burnout? What can we do about it? Lisa's picked up her hose and is running towards the burning building. Guests Karl Treacher , CEO of The Culture Institute, Executive in Residence at Griffith Business School and author of Built To Burn ====== You can binge more episodes of the This Working Life podcast with your on the job correspondent Lisa Leong on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. Please email us at thisworkinglife@abc.net.au if you would like to get in touch, we read them all and love hearing from you!

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  Wellness shortcuts do more harm than good

  Sep 20, 202625 min

  Are you drowning in digital? Are the company sponsored mental health tools helping you at all? They've become the norm as they're cheaper and easier to apply than traditional methods. But research is showing that these applications and online tools aren't always cutting the mustard when it comes to improving our mental wellbeing at work; especially when they're applied as a catch all. What makes you go ommmm? Lisa investigates. And the Radio National Top 100 Australian Books countdown is underway - make your vote count! Our Work Book guest this week is Dr Stefan Volk! His pick for our This Working Life bookshelf is Outlive by Peter Attia. Guests: Dr Julieta Galante, Medical Doctor, Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Contemplative Studies Centre at the University of Melbourne Dr Stefan Volk , Professor of Management and the Co-Director of the Body, Heart and Mind in Business Research Group at the University of Sydney ======= You can binge more episodes of the This Working Life podcast with your on the job correspondent Lisa Leong on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. Please email us at thisworkinglife@abc.net.au if you would like to get in touch, we read them all and love hearing from you!

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  Simone Stolzoff wants you to be uncertain!

  Sep 13, 202625 min

  It feels like we’re constantly being asked to know things, to be rock solid in our information. But is this desire for control and certainty stopping us from making better decisions both at work, and about our working lives? Journalist and author Simone Stolzoff has a lot of ideas about our brains and how we go to work! He’s been circling the globe hunting out people who trying to understand doubt and uncertainty for his new book How to Not Know: The Value of Uncertainty in a World That Demands Answers. So, what don't you know? Guest: Simone Stolzoff , journalist and author of How to Not Know and The Good Enough Job ====== You can binge more episodes of the This Working Life podcast with your on the job correspondent Lisa Leong on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. Please email us at thisworkinglife@abc.net.au if you would like to get in touch, we read them all and love hearing from you!

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  You're being measured!

  Sep 6, 202625 min

  Do you measure up? Digital and AI tools coupled with an increased desire for productivity means we’re being marked more closely than ever before. New research shows that when we know how we're being measured we stop prioritising the work that isn't measured, especially if we think the systems aren't transparent or fair. Lisa gets stuck into the modern map of "metricisation" to see how to defend soft skills from a passion for measurement! The Radio National Top 100 Australian Books countdown is underway - make your vote count! Our Work Book guest is ABC Business reporter Daniel Ziffer and his pick for the This Working Life book club is Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich. Guest: Dr Martin Edwards , Organisational psychologist and Professor in Management in the University of Queensland Business School Daniel Ziffer , ABC Business Reporter and author of A Wunch of Bankers: A Year in the Hayne Royal Commission ====== You can binge more episodes of the This Working Life podcast with your on the job correspondent Lisa Leong on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. Please email us at thisworkinglife@abc.net.au if you would like to get in touch, we read them all and love hearing from you!

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  Fluorescent lights burning you out?

  Aug 30, 202625 min

  How does your office make you feel? Are you an open plan convert or dying under the halogen lighting? We spend a lot of time in our workplaces and the way they’re designed can have a huge impact on our mental and physical wellbeing. Psychologists and architects are worried we've sleep walked into a world where the standard office design is actively burning workers out quick smart. It's a problem for employees stuck in environments draining them of the will, and employers losing good staff to bad design. So how do we fix it? Lisa dons a hard hat and goes looking for a smarter way to design modern workspaces. And it’s the first week of the Radio National Top 100 Australian Books countdown ! We kick off our series Work Book, getting the skinny on books that have changed the way people work. Rob Kelly's pick for our Work Book reading list is The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis. Guests: Dr Patrick Aouad , Neurologist, neuroscientist and the CEO of healthcare company CU Health . Natalie Phillips-Mason , Founder of Inclusive Change Michael Spinoglio , Design director of Spaceful Rob Kelly , Producer of This Working Life ====== You can binge more episodes of the This Working Life podcast with your on the job correspondent Lisa Leong on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. Please email us at thisworkinglife@abc.net.au if you would like to get in touch, we read them all and love hearing from you!

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