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- What are you like with conflict? Do you relish it or shy away?
Being uncomfortable with the fray may be holding us back at work and stifling our ability to work creatively.
Lisa laces up her boxing gloves to enter the ring of confrontation and disagreement at work!
Guest:
Tim Duggan, Chair of the Digital Publisher's Alliance and the author of Work Backwards, Cult Status and Clear In Tension
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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! - Believe it or not, it's almost summer!
A lot of universities are finishing up and high schools only have a few weeks until exams. All of a sudden people need employment until March, it happens quickly!
But the rise in casualisation and the cost of living mean there's more competition for temporary work and employers may not be as keen anymore on staff who depart with the leaves of autumn.
Are you or someone in your life looking for a summer job? Do they still exist the way they used to? If not, what can we do about it?
Lisa rolls up her sleeves and gets ready for the summer rush!
Guests:
Dr Blair Chapman, Chief Economist at employment service Seek
Dr Irma Mooi-Reci, Professor in sociology at the University of Melbourne and and the founder and CEO of JobSciences
Ryan Craig, Managing Director at Achieve Partners and author of Apprentice Nation and College Disrupted
Links:
Irma Mooi-Reci's new employment data tool can be found at Jobography
Ryan Craig's article about summer jobs in the United States can be read on Forbes
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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! - How's your neck feeling? Tight? Falling forward?
You aren't alone.
In the first edition of our occasional series Workplace Physio we look forward, with our heads held high, at the impact of 'tech neck'.
Lisa steps on the wobbleboard and does her exercises to figure out what work is doing to our necks and how we can go about fixing it.
Guest:
Jennifer Callaghan, Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist and the Director of Callaghan Physiotherapy
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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! - Is AI coming for your job?
Well, maybe not yet. But there are early warning signs that entry level jobs are getting squeezed and traditional career pathways are closing up.
Research from Stanford Digital Labs in the US has shone a light on what actual impact artificial intelligence is having on employment, and it's not necessarily what the big tech bosses have been telling us!
Lisa scales the corporate coalface to find out what's coming.
Guests:
Dr Bharat Chandar, Research Fellow and Labor Economist at Stanford Digital Labs
Dr Michael Legg, Future of Law Professor at the University of NSW
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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! - 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
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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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