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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Two heroes of the hour in UK politics areBaroness Beeban Kidron and Lord Ed Vaizey who voice the utter madness of the idea that ditching copyright - specifically ceding it to Big Tech AI - is fair, workable or good economically or culturally. AI can't be used to steal. #copyrightlaw #copyright #AI

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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · 26/04/2025

“The history of work and jobs is littered with disruption, change, and we live today as much with the relics of old ways of working as we do the moulds of new forms we are creating,” argues @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social | iai.tv/articles/ai-... Tap the link to read more. #AI #techsky

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AI won't steal your job, it'll make it interesting | Julia Hobsbawm

The future of work is more uncertain than at any point in a century, writes Julia Hobsbawm, highlighting that, according to the World Economic Forum, about a quarter of jobs will change by 2028. But…

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

THE FLEX WORK STRATEGY WORKED - (take note Monsieur Farage) : at a national level being against common sense will not work. Congratulations @AlboMP for putting this policy at the heart of your campaign. ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

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Albanese backs working from home

Says Dutton 'out of touch' for pushing workers back to office.

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Five years ago today Italy became the first country in Europe to lock down. Find out what happened to Italy's world of work in the United State of Work report out tomorrow workathon.io/usw/index.html

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

What I loved was three different women working the aisles and tills in the supermarket (OK, @waitrose ) shyly wishing me and a girl friend Happy International Women's Day: like it was lovely to hear themselves say it and mean it and be heard. That was lovely.

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Go Big or Go Home, they say. Announced today. workathon.io/doc/WORKATHO...

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Popular culture should be separate from politics but the medium has been the message for so long. Can Deep Mind resurrect Macluhan just for a day?

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Fury! Sharing this apparently elegant debate I did with @ethicistforhire.bsky.social but the quiet fury between us was undeniable. I think you can only apply esoteric philosophy so far in the debate about whether The Global South needs the internet or not. youtu.be/bfW9QYf5M7Q?si… via @YouTube

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Is communication no longer human? | Nolen Gertz vs Julia Hobsbawm

YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

"the sprint to “delete” U.S.A.I.D. on grounds of waste and ideological bias also sent its own bigger message: that soft power, properly understood, is not really power at all, only a shackle restricting the exercise of the harder and more old-fashioned kind." - David Wallace-Wells @nytimes.com

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

What did you do when the world stopped working like it ever had in March 2020? And how is it changing now for all of us, 5 years on? Get your free download ordered of The United State of Work, published by WORKATHON on 19 March 2025 workathon.io/usw/

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

An amazing week here in New York where we found a very *very* warm reception indeed for WORKATHON. People want to connect and meet the challenges of work in a community, a network, and they also want data, research, ideas. We're just getting started and it's - so American - "super exciting"

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Incredible, really, to have the President of the nation which has led the world of work for a century spend his first fortnight going to war with his own federal workforce and undertaking a bonfire of DEI in its entirely, even going so far as to blame "it" for the tragic DC plane crash

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

New York State of Mind. It's cold. But not that cold. Nevertheless it's my Babushka look.

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Here amongst the gleaming spires to give a talk @orieloxford.bsky.social. I have to say I love Oxford. It has a studious hush, a lovely light. Have written some of my books here in the beautiful quarters of another college which offered it up as a bit of a writing sanctuary.

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

My mother's care home with a high Jewish population: I arrive to find them all huddled around watching hostage release coverage @skynewss.bsky.social

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

"the media organisations, bureaucracies, universities and government-funded NGOs that traditionally delimited public conversation." - Peter Thiel in the FT. Am I the only one to long for a fervent believer in scary stuff who can write eloquently?

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Today @thetimes.com asked for my take on work predictions for 2025 and used this matchy matchy photo...An expert’s view on the future of work in 2025 www.thetimes.com/article/e31c...

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Dr Nicola Streeten @nicolastreeten.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

A cartoon I did for @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social in 2024

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Hard at work on this paper - out on 6 March to coincide fifth anniversary of first lockdown - NEW DATA + @rorysutherland.bsky.social @davidmcwecon.bsky.social @benpageresearch.bsky.social Vicky Price, Melis Abacioglu + more in association #workathon #thenowhereoffice

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Work on New Year's Day in cafes in urban areas much complicated by platform economy : physically there's the same amount of staff, same space, just fitting in lots of additional delivery and pickup: the unintended consequences of an internet society number 2025. Happy New Year

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I finish the year with a word I think I made up: Workdemic - to describe the multiple effects generated both by Covid-19 and the generative AI on every generation at work. @theneweuropean.bsky.social asked me to write about it in relation to the UK and I did. www.theneweuropean.co.uk/julia-hobsba...

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Today is the day Christmas recedes. The tinsel starts to itch and the twinkling lights are a chintzy bore. Roll on 2025!

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Bee @beerowlatt.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

A #booksky shoutout for my own latest, an uncomfortable glimpse at middle class London..💙📚 "Immersed in – and blown away by – One Woman Crime Wave!" @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social "A fantastic novel about fractured families, class and the politics of parenting." @liznugent.bsky.social

Bee looking astounded in front of a shop window full of copies of her latest book

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

My mum used to love Christmas but now she doesn't know it's Christmas at all. One reason why despite loving the carols and the schmaltz I find myself well, a bit sad too. Certainly reflective. Full of love and the utter poignancy of the one time of year we all get abit emotional in public. X

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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 23/12/2024

A warm discussion of the great Charles Handy’s life and legacy with @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social and @stefanstern.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

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A Tribute To Charles Handy

Podcast Episode · The Nowhere Office · 20/12/2024 · 49m

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Tonight in London my eldest son is taking me to see one of the best "office" movies ever: The Apartment with Jack Lemmon (1960). I would say some other brilliant office films include Office Space (1999), The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and. Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Is I know hardly any of you know Kentish Town, a small area in London but I like this post about the tube/subway escalators and how they, well, *work*

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Anyone who left X to avoid Elon Musk is realising he has declared himself World Leader of media, politics & tech: and he may be right

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Gisele Pelicot is on my mind today. She walked into court to shouts of "Bravo". Bravery is an understatement for a woman like her. May justice be served.

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

This post is important but the comment threads on the uneconomic economics of farming are interesting too

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Good morning. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Desperate measures in Tokyo for falling fertility and an unexpected boost for the 4 Day Week: @fortune.com asked for my comment! fortune.com/2024/12/07/t...

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Tokyo is turning to a 4-day work week in a desperate attempt to help Japan shed its unwanted title of ‘world’s oldest population’

Japan hit a record low birth rate earlier this year.

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

One of the world's greatest management philosophers, Charles Handy, has died at home in London surrounded by his beloved family. Aged 92. Prescient, his books and work live on. May His Memory Be A Blessing. Goodby my dear friend and inspiration xx

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Hybrid Winters, AI Winters, Property Envelopes, 4 Day Week, immersive tech, climate risk and why RTO may not be the office story in 2025 - end of year global workplace trends with @JLL corporate real estate giant Peter Miscovich- out now on The Nowhere Office pod open.spotify.com/episode/1kFq...

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Global Trends and Quantum Leaps

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The end of the car as we know it. That's the story of 2024 in business. Coming next: the end of the driver as we know it.

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Very sorry that the reputation of Tim Ferriss' classic book The Four Hour Work Week has been tarnished by association in the Goodreads choices of the self-styled modern Unabomber assassin Mangione. Yes it's a total bro book but a classic of its kind ushering in today's era.

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Dror Poleg @drorpoleg.com · 09/12/2024

May 2020: Some guy in a basement claims that offices will be in trouble in 2024.

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

What a piece of footage. What a moment in history.

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Much that is touted as miraculous AI assistance fills me with anxiety. Not the same as generative AI synthesising and summarising or enabling young less qualified workers to know stuff quickly. But the promise of volume being magically reduced etc? Surely more hype cycle than anything strategic.

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Mocked and derided at the time but the political phrase which resonates most today was made by the late Donald Rumsfeld jn a speech to the Pentagon in 2002: "Known Unknowns".

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Whats the airline equivalent song of "Driving Home for Christmas" and here's hoping it's not too bumpy a landing through storm Darrogh in the morning. It's been - as ever - en epic American trip and I'm full of optimism about working with my US colleagues and network in 2025 as Workathon takes off.

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I have become the person who turns up at Soul Cycle on 77th and Broadway on a waitlist whom. It's 8.30am...#bittenbythebug

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Julia Hobsbawm of WORKATHON @juliahobsbawm.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

In a land where they say "Happy Holidays" every five minutes this absolutely beautiful @coldplay video directed by Spike Jonze is a joy and captures a working life too in all its glory www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Dick Van Dyke stars in moving Coldplay video as he turns 99

The actor recreates dance moves from across his career, and reflects on old age in a touching video.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Etymology of the day is ‘jargon’, from the Old French ‘jargoun’, meaning the ‘chattering of birds’.

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