A few years ago an hour-long commute in crawling traffic or on a crowded bus seemed like an inevitable part of working life. But today, lots of workplaces are spending millions setting up their workforce to complete their day to day from the comfort of their own homes. The benefits for workers are obvious - but does working from home actually work for business? Hear how a company with over 1000 employees manages remote work and what the UNSW Hybrid Leadership Lab has found about the most effective way to keep employees happy while still getting the job done. Guests: Paul Edwards, General Manager of Strategy and Customer at Mirvac Professor Karin Sanders, Senior Deputy Dean (Research & Enterprise) at UNSW Business School and co-founder of the UNSW Hybrid Leadership Lab Find out more about Professor Karin Sanders’ research below: https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/karin-sanders https://www.linkedin.com/in/karin-sanders-2735a61 https://www.businessthink.unsw.edu.au/articles/leaders-manage-hybrid-working https://www.businessthink.unsw.edu.au/articles/managing-micromanager-hybrid-work https://www.businessthink.unsw.edu.au/articles/australia-four-day-work-week Find out more about the UNSW Business School Hybrid Work Leadership lab here: https://www.unsw.edu.au/business/our-schools/management-governance/our-research/hybrid-work-leadership The transcript and show notes can be found on our website: https://www.unsw.edu.au/business/our-schools/agsm/about-us/the-business-of-podcast Want to follow the latest research and news from UNSW Business School and AGSM @ UNSW Business School? Subscribe to our industry stories at BusinessThink and follow us on LinkedIn. https://www.businessthink.unsw.edu.au/ https://www.linkedin.com/school/3274515/ https://www.linkedin.com/school/15104530 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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As the pace of organisational change speeds up, a new generation of leaders is emerging who see the world differently. They are finding ways to grapple with complexity and make an impact in an accelerating world. What can we learn from them? In The Business Of, a podcast from UNSW Business School, a diverse group of business leaders from the corporate, start-up, government, and for-purpose sectors share their lived experiences in building businesses that can ‘do well’ and ‘do good’.
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