SPOTLIGHT: Embracing the Nowhere Office, With Julia Hobsbawm

The hybrid world has upended traditional norms around the role of
the office. Author Julia Hobsbawm joins the Talent Angle to
discuss how talent management leaders can apply the
insights from her book, “The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and
the Workplace of the Future,” to take advantage of
the emerging opportunities created by hybrid ways of
working. Hobsbawm argues we are in a new era of work — marked by
unclear boundaries and changing attitudes — and she shares advice
on what organizations should do as they continue to shape the
role of the office in this new era. She looks to the past at
how earlier innovations in knowledge work changed offices and to
the future at how physical spaces will support employees in
sustained performance.


 




Julia Hobsbawm is an award-winning business author and
futurist of work who writes the “Working Assumptions” column
for Bloomberg’s Work Shift. The author of the acclaimed book
“The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of
the Future,” she was a founder of the U.S.-led Workforce
Institute, was chair of the inaugural U.K. Demos Workshift
Commission, and now co-hosts the popular podcast, “The
Nowhere Office.” Julia is the author of six books, including
the award-winning “The Simplicity Principle,” and she was
awarded an OBE in the late Queen Elizabeth II’s
Birthday Honours List in 2015 for services to
business. She regularly consults for and speaks to
corporations, governments and changemakers around the world.


 




Jessica Knight is a vice president of
research in the Gartner HR practice. She leads
research teams to identify best practices and new
opportunities for addressing HR executives’ most urgent
challenges. Her areas of focus include employee
experience, organizational culture, change management and
the future of work.