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 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 shares advice on what organizations should do as they
continue to shape the role of the office in this context. In
doing so, 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 Workshift. The author of the acclaimed book “The
Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the
Future,” she was a founder of the US-led Workforce Institute, was
Chair of the inaugural UK 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, government
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 to address HR executives’ most urgent
challenges. Her areas of focus include employee experience,
organizational culture, change management, and the future of
work.