This Working Life

Is AI coming for your job?  Well, maybe not yet. But there are early warning signs that entry level jobs are getting squeezed and traditional career pathways are closing up. Research from Stanford Digital Labs in the US has shone a light on what actual impact artificial intelligence is having on employment, and it's not necessarily what the big tech bosses have been telling us! Lisa scales the corporate coalface to find out what's coming. Guests:Dr Bharat Chandar, Research Fellow and Labor Economist at Stanford Digital LabsDr Michael Legg, Future of Law Professor at the University of Sydney=======You can binge more episodes of the This Working Life podcast with your on the job correspondent Lisa Leong on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. Please email us at [email protected] if you would like to get in touch, we read them all and love hearing from you! 

Are you burnt out ... again?!  How does it keep coming round like clockwork?   We're entering burnout season, and author Karl Treacher agues in his new book Built to Burn that you burning out is a feature of the system, not a bug.  Are we facing an epidemic of burnout? What can we do about it? Lisa's picked up her hose and is running towards the burning building. GuestsKarl Treacher, CEO of The Culture Institute, Executive in Residence at Griffith Business School and author of Built To Burn======You can binge more episodes of the This Working Life podcast with your on the job correspondent Lisa Leong on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. Please email us at [email protected] if you would like to get in touch, we read them all and love hearing from you! 

Are you drowning in digital?  Are the company sponsored mental health tools helping you at all? They've become the norm as they're cheaper and easier to apply than traditional methods.  But research is showing that these applications and online tools aren't always cutting the mustard when it comes to improving our mental wellbeing at work; especially when they're applied as a catch all. What makes you go ommmm? Lisa investigates. And the Radio National Top 100 Australian Books countdown is underway - make your vote count!  Our Work Book guest this week is Dr Stefan Volk! His pick for our This Working Life bookshelf is Outlive by Peter Attia. Guests:Dr Julieta Galante, Medical Doctor, Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Contemplative Studies Centre at the University of MelbourneDr Stefan Volk, Professor of Management and the Co-Director of the Body, Heart and Mind in Business Research Group at the University of Sydney=======You can binge more episodes of the This Working Life podcast with your on the job correspondent Lisa Leong on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. Please email us at [email protected] if you would like to get in touch, we read them all and love hearing from you! 

It feels like we’re constantly being asked to know things, to be rock solid in our information.  But is this desire for control and certainty stopping us from making better decisions both at work, and about our working lives?  Journalist and author Simone Stolzoff has a lot of ideas about our brains and how we go to work! He’s  been circling the globe hunting out people who trying to understand doubt and uncertainty for his new book How to Not Know: The Value of Uncertainty in a World That Demands Answers. So, what don't you know? Guest:Simone Stolzoff, journalist and author of How to Not Know  and The Good Enough Job======You can binge more episodes of the This Working Life podcast with your on the job correspondent Lisa Leong on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. Please email us at [email protected] if you would like to get in touch, we read them all and love hearing from you! 

Do you measure up?Digital and AI tools coupled with an increased desire for productivity means we’re being marked more closely than ever before. New research shows that when we know how we're being measured we stop prioritising the work that isn't measured, especially if we think the systems aren't transparent or fair. Lisa gets stuck into the modern map of "metricisation" to see how to defend soft skills from a passion for measurement! The Radio National Top 100 Australian Books countdown is underway - make your vote count!  Our Work Book guest is ABC Business reporter Daniel Ziffer and his pick for the This Working Life book club is Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich. Guests: Dr Martin Edwards, Organisational psychologist and Professor in Management in the University of Queensland Business SchoolDaniel Ziffer, ABC Business Reporter and author of A Wunch of Bankers: A Year in the Hayne Royal Commission======You can binge more episodes of the This Working Life podcast with your on the job correspondent Lisa Leong on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. Please email us at [email protected] if you would like to get in touch, we read them all and love hearing from you!