A podcast about work, the future and how they will go together

A podcast about work, the future and how they will go together


Latest Episodes

Episode 43: Are Online Courses the Future of Education?
May 25, 2021

As we move towards the future of work, it is becoming increasingly clear that that  that might mean re-thinking education models. We tend to think of education as being a few years after high school t

Episode 42: What Can Australia Teach Us About Post-Pandemic Work Life?
May 12, 2021

Australia is held up as an example to those of us in North America and elsewhere in the world. They did not completely escape the pandemic, but they came pretty close and for the most part, they are b

Episode 41: How Much Should We Worry About Long Term Unemployment?
May 05, 2021

We are getting good news on the economy and the labor market but are the statistics telling us the whole story? Even with a surge in hiring and a fall in the unemployment, there is a core of people wh

Episode 40: How Can You Get Control of Your Time?
April 28, 2021

Whatever else is going on in the economy or the world, one thing that never seems to change is our battle to have enough time to do everything we feel we need to get done in our work (and in our perso

Episode 39: What Does the Post-Pandemic Market for MBAs Look Like?
April 15, 2021

Is getting an MBA super important and the key to success, or is it an expensive waste of time that will not necessarily get you where you want to be? The market seems to go back and forth on it:some y

Episode 38: How Do You Reinvent Yourself After a Pandemic?
March 23, 2021

The pandemic may be ending, but that does mean that workers are headed back to where they were in the spring of 2020. In some cases, their positions have been eliminated and they are going to be force

Episode 37: How Can Business Keep Workers Continuously Skilled?
March 15, 2021

  How important will reskilling be to our economic future and what role should business play in making it happen? And what about continuous training? Business has always been reticent about training b

Episode 36: Can you Reskill People to Move Between Industries?
March 04, 2021

How do you take someone with one set of skills and gret them ready for a job market that needs a completely different set of them? It is an issue that we had started to grapple with a lot before the p

Episode 35: Does Technology Increase or Decrease Worker Stress?
February 11, 2021

Over the past year we have leaned heavily on technology, but it has kind of been a love-hate relationship. We love technology it because it is cool that we can work from home, but we also get frustrat

Episode 34: How Can We Re-skill to Keep Up with Technology?
February 04, 2021

Our major economic problem right now is the pandemic and its offshoots, but that does not mean the economic issues we had before the pandemic have gone away. One of those issues is technology, or rath

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