Future of work news

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The Way We Talk Around Here: How your organization’s culture shows up in your language and why it matters – Gill Ereaut, 2025

The Way We Talk Around Here: How your organization’s culture shows up in your language and why it matters �

Cathryn Barnard

2026-02-19 12:27

Gill Ereaut's new book The Way We Talk Around Here explores the way organisational language and workplace conversations shape culture.

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WHY UNDERSTANDING FUTURE OF WORK META-TRENDS IS NOW A BUSINESS IMPERATIVE

Patrick Lodge

2026-02-19 11:15

The organisations that thrive in the next decade won't be the ones that reacted fastest. They'll be the ones that saw what was coming.

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The Next Conversation: Argue less, talk more - Jefferson Fisher, 2025

Cathryn Barnard

2026-01-21 19:44

The publication of this book is timely - and as a lawyer, Fisher knows a thing or two about how to have difficult conversations in heated environments.

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7 THINGS WE’RE REGULARLY ASKED ABOUT FUTURE OF WORK META-TRENDS

Patrick Lodge

2026-01-16 11:12

What are people actually asking us when it comes to future of work meta-trends? Here are seven questions that crop up time and again...

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WHY EVERY ORGANISATION MUST FACTOR WORK TRENDS INTO BUSINESS-PLANNING ACTIVITIES

Cathryn Barnard

2026-01-16 10:39

What if, instead of doubling down on conventional business thinking, leaders were to get curious, creative and experimental?

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It's Not Magic: The Ordinary Skills of Exceptional Leaders – John Amaechi, 2025

Cathryn Barnard

2025-11-24 13:00

It’s Not Magic positions humane leadership at the heart of organisational success...

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HOSTING A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE - WHAT HAVE I LEARNT?

Cathryn Barnard

2025-11-24 11:32

In late 2023, my colleagues Luis Suarez, Patrick Lodge and I embarked on an experiment. We set up an international online community of practice...

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ABUZZ WITH THE ASYNCO-NAUTS - OCTOBER'S HOT TOPICS

Patrick Lodge

2025-10-21 12:41

asynco is our international community of practice. Here's a round-up of the most buzzing topics on members' minds in October...

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Your Shopping Superpower: Follow your values and better your world one purchase at a time – Diane Osgood, 2025

Your Shopping Superpower: Follow your values and better your world one purchase at a time – Diane Osgood, 20

Cathryn Barnard

2025-10-20 12:52

Your Shopping Superpower is a compendium of resources to help shop more sustainably. It sets out why sustainable shopping matters and how to spot greenwashing.

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HOW TO CREATE A FUTURE OF WORK STRATEGY

Cathryn Barnard

2025-09-25 12:57

It’s increasingly hard to plan but most futurists agree that striking a balance between setting a vision and yet remaining fluid as to how that vision will...

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FIVE FUTURE OF WORK SOCIO-CULTURAL TRENDS YOU NEED TO BE ACROSS

Patrick Lodge

2025-09-25 12:32

The second of our blogs examining five of the ten key meta-trends reshaping work focuses on socio-cultural shifts...

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ABUZZ WITH THE ASYNCO-NAUTS - SEPTEMBER'S HOT TAKES

Patrick Lodge

2025-09-19 13:51

asynco is our international community of practice. Here's a round-up of the most buzzing topics on members' minds in September...

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Belonging: Unlock your potential with the ancient code of togetherness – Owen Eastwood, 2021

Cathryn Barnard

2025-09-17 13:16

Owen Eastwood helps world-class teams across sports, corporate, the military and the arts improve their performance. His approach, grounded in indigenous...

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FIVE FUTURE OF WORK MACRO-TRENDS YOU NEED TO BE ACROSS

Patrick Lodge

2025-09-09 13:14

We’ve identified five macro- and five socio-cultural trends most likely to reshape work in over the course of this decade. Let's look at the first of these...

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FOUR FUTURE OF WORK TRENDS CATCHING MY EYE THIS MONTH

Patrick Lodge

2025-09-08 14:46

Here are four emerging trends and perspectives on the myriad ways the future of work is evolving that caught Pat's eye this month…

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Gen Z work trends are going mainstream - so what should the leadership response be?

Admin

2025-07-28 13:31

Gen Z workplace trends like ‘task masking’ and ‘micro-retirement’ are getting traction in the workplace - these call for enlightened leadership strategies...

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Seven of the most interesting emergent future of work trends

Admin

2025-07-28 13:09

These unforeseen emerging developments are transforming the future of work, with the workplace evolving more rapidly than ever before...

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What will the world of work look like in 2050?

Admin

2025-07-28 12:37

Many of today's work-related concepts may either be reimagined or rendered obsolete by then...

Reading Room, future-of-work, ai, digital-transformation, technology-trends, business-sustainability, connection-ampampampamp-belonging, enlightened-leadership,

The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley – Marietje Schaake, 2024

Cathryn Barnard

2025-07-28 12:09

For anyone invested in the continuation of democracy, this is essential reading. We can’t respond to what we can’t see, and while it might be too late for...

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ABUZZ WITH THE ASYNCO-NAUTS - THE SUMMER'S HOT TOPICS

Patrick Lodge

2025-07-24 13:00

asynco is our international community of practice. Here's a round-up of the most buzzing topics on members' minds recently...

Future of work news

As the nature of work shifts and transforms, there’s a huge amount to digest. Clients regularly ask us to present curated work trends, headlines and an expert overview.

Here we share our round-up of the latest future of news and alternative perspectives on the myriad ways the future of work is emerging and evolving.

Future of work news

As the nature of work shifts and transforms, there’s a huge amount to digest. Clients regularly ask us to present curated work trends, headlines and an expert overview.

​Here we share our round-up of the latest future of news and alternative perspectives on the myriad ways the future of work is emerging and evolving.

Here we share our round-up of the latest future of news and alternative perspectives on the myriad ways the future of work is emerging and evolving.