On this week’s show we chat with Wendy Kendall and Tom Cheesewright about how with increasing remote working, organisations need to think again about how people learn the ropes of work…

You can find out more about Wendy here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendyakendall/

And more about Tom here: https://tomcheesewright.com/

On this week’s show Chris & Matt meet technologist Dave Rogers and explore the concept of Toxic IT.

You can read Dave’s Toxic IT articles on his blog here: https://daverog.com/

On this week’s show we talk conversational UI, humanising technology and healthcare with Vala Health CEO Pete Trainor.

On this week’s show we explore how the bits of work we might be missing most in lockdown are those that are the bits between the actual work. We also ask the question “Is IT a Social Science?”

Here are the two Twitter threads that inspired this week’s show:

Nice piece by @samwollaston on the commute. It offers a third space between home and work – albeit one which is expensive and often unpleasant. Do we need to find new third spaces? https://t.co/cN4jUu7kZK

In the early days of the pandemic, the term "contact tracing" vaulted into the public consciousness: that's the shoe-leather- and labor-intensive process whereby skilled heath experts establish a personal rapport with infected people to establish who they had contact with.

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And Randy Connolly’s article about Social Science is here: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/8/246368-why-computing-belongs-within-the-social-sciences/fulltext

On this week’s show Chris and Matt reflect on the non-linear journey that coming out of COVID Lockdown might prove to be, and Matt also spends time talking with Naomi Oiku, Hannah-Mae Graham and Jordan Scudder from the Student Radio Association about student media in the 2020s.

On this week’s show we wave a friendly “Hello Again” to Tom Geraghty, who shares his thoughts on the concept of psychological safety, and the role it has to play in establishing high performing teams.

You can find out more about Tom’s work at his website: https://tomgeraghty.co.uk/index.php/category/tech/

On this week’s show we are joined again by Phil Murphy to hear about what’s been happening around fire safety in buildings since we last spoke a year ago.

On this week’s show we speak with Charity IT leader Paul Smith about the impact of Covid on the not-for-profit sector, and how technology might help charities to survive and thrive in the future.

On this week’s show we are joined by Sharon o’Dea to talk about whether the future of work is actually mostly about the future of meetings.

Sharon’s posts about the New Abnormal can be found here:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/road-remote-first-sharon-o-dea/

and here:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/road-remote-part-2-spaces-support-comms-sharon-o-dea/

And you can find here on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/sharonodea

On this week’s show Chris & Matt discuss the current state of Cloud technology, spurred by some dodgy IBM marketing. We also touch on the COVID tracing app, and Matt talks role specs.

The DDaT Job Family work that Matt mentioned is here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/digital-data-and-technology-profession-capability-framework

The article about Maersk is here:
https://gvnshtn.com/maersk-me-notpetya/

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