The Nowhere Office, Julia Hobsbawm
The Nowhere Office, Julia Hobsbawm
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The Nowhere Office
Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future

Author: Julia Hobsbawm

Narrator: Julia Hobsbawm

Unabridged: 4 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 04/12/2022

Synopsis

What has changed in the workplace? Everything.

The traditional office was probably doomed anyway. Then a global shutdown changed everything we thought we knew about work, including where and when it needed to take place. Automation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution have accelerated, and perhaps as much as one third of the world’s permanent workforce will soon become remote. In The Nowhere Office, Julia Hobsbawm offers a strategic and practical guide to navigating this pivotal moment in the history of work and provides lessons for how both employees and employers can adapt.

Hobsbawm draws on her extensive networks in business, academia, and entrepreneurship across  generations to offer new ideas about how to handle hybrid working, as well as provides deep insight into how the way we work is being transformed by larger issues such as community, hierarchy, bias, identity, and security. The Nowhere Office describes a unique moment in the history of work which, if understood and handled correctly, can provide a springboard for the biggest transformational change in the workplace for a century: something better, more meaningful, and more workable for everyone.

About Julia Hobsbawm

Julia Hobsbawm is an award-winning writer, speaker and consultant on how to make working life work better. She is the author of six books including Fully Connected: Social Health in an Age of Overload and The Simplicity Principle which won Best Business Book and Best Self-Help Book of 2020. She presents the popular podcast The Nowhere Office and writes the 'Working Assumptions' column for Bloomberg's Work Shift.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Daniel

Work from Home, hybrid work. The technology has always been there, but Covid has really made the Nowhere Office socially acceptable. And a lot of people will not want to go back to the Offcie full time now. The new found freedom, time saved and flexibility, is liberating. Productivity went up, but w......more

Goodreads review by Florian,

Can we just go back to the office after two years in the home office, as if nothing had happened? No, says Julia Hobsbawm, and in her short book she deconstructs the office as we know it in order to reinvent it afterwards: not as a place, but a space with a physical and a social form, in which the r......more

Goodreads review by Michal

Interesting book but stops somehow just before getting into interesting area. Great overview of what has changed post-pandemic but does not offer more insights. I'd like to see a more in-depth version that goes way more into analysis of what and how people work these days. There is a distinct feelin......more

Goodreads review by Stacy

This short book had some interesting thoughts about the shift in the workplace - often times they were small observations that seem so obvious, yet I had not heard anyone else speak about them. I thought Chapter 6 in particular about Social Health and Well-being had some specific suggestions that ap......more

Quotes

“A tour de force of insight, clarity and . . . common sense.”—Adrian Wooldridge, global business columnist, Bloomberg

“Where else are you going to find such enlightening insights into the future of work?”—James Bell, VP, Pew Research Center

“A masterful analysis of the reinvention of work in a post-office world.”—Andrew Keen, author of How to Fix the Future

“Julia Hobsbawm is brilliant at seeing tomorrow’s ideas today.”—Joy Lo Dico, columnist, Financial Times

“Even-handed and sensible appraisal of the future of work. . . A priceless injection of nuanced thinking and practical suggestions.”—Rory Sutherland, vice chairman, Ogilvy UK

“The Nowhere Office brilliantly captures the zeitgeist issue of our times—how and where we work.”—Ayesha Hazarika, journalist and broadcaster, Times Radio

“Every manager or leader who is wondering what to do next about their offices and people needs to read The Nowhere Office.”—Ben Page, Global CEO, ISPOS

“We need big bold thinkers like Julia Hobsbawm right now more than ever.”—Polly Mackenzie, chief executive, Demos

“The pandemic has changed the way we work. Julia Hobsbawm’s The Nowhere Office makes the case for embracing the opportunities this brings.”—Financial Times, “The books to read in 2022”

“An intriguing consideration of this bewildering “liminal in-between time in the history of work.”—Kirkus

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