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#006 — Gabe Barrett: The future of work is up for design

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Gabe is the CEO of Otter Intelligence, a workplace and employee experience consultancy.

Gabe trained as a geoscientist before beginning his career as a strategy consultant with a particular focus on risk management.

He's driven initiatives and built teams in the fields of business resilience, cyber security and technology but he's found himself increasingly drawn towards the human side of work, and most especially is fascinated by what makes a good team. He believes that the future of work is up for design.


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TIMESTAMPS

  • 0:00 Introduction
  • 1:42 What then and now — Gabe's plans
  • 3:03 The future of work — What is it?
  • 8:34 Funny how companies are dictating the number of days in the office to their employees, isn't it better to help them adapt their work location to the task at hand?
  • 14:02 What if the nature of your business means you can’t let everyone ‘work from anywhere? Are you going to lose staff? Lose clients and sales? Fail to attract the top talent?
  • 16:13 Organisations should seize this opportunity to step back and make sure that they are creating clear connections across individual jobs, team objectives, and the organisation’s mission — How would you do that? What is your approach?
  • 20:21 Current projects — Where is your inspiration coming from? (e.g.: military)
  • 24:43 Company's purpose and ''North Star''
  • 28:28 The issue with companies' buzzwords, B.S and performative actions
  • 31:19 Thomas Friedman’s perspective that humans who want to adapt in an age of acceleration must develop “dynamic stability”
  • 36:30 A pandemic year, resilience, trauma, mental health crisis
  • 38:03 The end of the office factory
  • 42:45 The individualisation of work experience; using a data-driven approach to better understand workers’ unique attributes, needs, and dimensions and segment their workforce accordingly
  • 45:29 What is one thing that you wish your program does for your clients?
  • 46:48 Automation and digitisation of interactions
  • 50:26 Global workforce and company's values
  • 55:05 Lasting impact of the pandemic on labour demand, mix of occupations, the workforce skills required
  • 56:13 What are the skills and/or character traits that helped you so far in your life?
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