The Remote Lab Podcast

Yay, let's start off season 3 of The Remote Lab Podcast! We have a treat for you today, I'm having a conversation with Yoshio Tsuda who runs two different coworking spaces - one in rural Fujimi, and one in urban Yokohama. We get in to life choices, breaking patterns and the importance of having brave people who support you. I hope you enjoy it, and find out more about Yoshio here: https://en.morino-office.com/

We're back! We can't even tell you how excited we are to be able to do a second season with this podcast, thank you everyone who have listened and showed support and connected with us - we feel truly blessed. We're starting off with a short recap of what we learned over the summer, here are some key high lights: - Books and coffee are friends - Italian playing cards are not what you'd think - The concept of "Ba" is something that intrigues us - Learning out loud with others is super helpful when trying to understand the emerging future

Today we dig in with Jennica Lenning,who is a Strategic Advisor for hybrid-/ distributed- & activity based working. She guides us through the idea of the office, and what the future might hold for arguably one of our most contested spaces. The definition of what an office might be is changing and could be thought of as both a noun and a verb - it all depends on what we fill our spaces with and how we can navigate our own way forward. Let's get to it!

For our third episode, we meet Sebastian Rudenstam who is one of the founders of Beleco. Sebastian is passionate about the future of humanity and Beleco is his way of changing how we think about furniture how we move through the world on a grander scale. Check out beleco.com if you want to know more about how they are doing it, and reach out to us at remotelab.io with your thoughts or ideas about the podcast. 

This episode is a deep dive into the report "The remote work revolution" that was just published by the trade union Engineers of Sweden. Johan Kreicbergs, one of the authors guides us through the results of the report and we have a great conversation about what this might mean for Sweden's regional development. Enjoy! Read the report: https://www.sverigesingenjorer.se/globalassets/24-04-distansarbetesrevolutionen---uppdatering-2024-04-29.pdf

In this episode we dig into a new way of thinking about spaces and cities with Robin Rushdie from Vakansa - so interesting! We talk a lot about macro and micro levels of society and how we can make existing buildings serve us better as a society. Hope you like it!

Today I'm having a conversation with John Cannerborg, the tech master mind behind Teampilot, the site that helps you find talent within the tech sector. John and I get into the details of hiring remotely, success factors and have a bit of a ponder of what the next step in aligning your organization to remote hiring might be. Have a listen!

Janne Björge is our esteemed guest for today, and we get into leading organisations and creating better experiences for employees adn customers. Janne tells us the story of how he got into the whole brand experience business, and what businesses today can learn from that. Enjoy!

We wrap up our deep dive in coworking by talking with Mélanie Burnier, who is the director of The Work Hub in Switzerland, and also co-chair of the Swiss national coworking association. We talk about her journey into the field and why new ways of working are important to consider in the hunt for talent, and what she sees as emerging in the current landscape. Also, Mélanie mentions the differences between Switzerland and Sweden as our countries sometimes get mixed up - this is the illuminating video that she talks about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oNX_BHgi3c

This season's final episode is a loooong special on coworking - we have a very special guest, Stephen Carolan from Ireland, who is the program manager for the national hub network. We dive into how coworking supports rural development by enabling a distributed work force, and Stephen shares experiences and lessons learned creating a national network. Enjoy! If you'd like to know more about this excellent initiative, please visit https://connectedhubs.ie/

Ok, so for this episode we dig into something near and dear for us - the inner development goals, which is a framework to create a more sustainable future. Maria and I attended a summit together and we talk about what we learned as individuals and as a company. We hope to inspire you and if you're curious - feel free to dig in to these links: https://www.innerdevelopmentgoals.org/ https://icebug.com/sv

Today we dig a little deeper in tech, and talk to James McHale about smart buildings and what sort of tech might help us use commercial buildings in a more efficient and productive way, as we're moving into an era of hybrid work. If you want to know more about James and Memoori, have a look at their reports at https://memoori.com/

This could have been an episode about sourdough, but it sadly isn't. Today were sneaking a peak into the world of venture capital! Our guest Finn Persson from Spintop Ventures is a seasoned investor and we dive into the details about building strong cultures that can scale. Finn shares some great insights as to what makes a startup successful and we also try out one of Spintop Ventures investments - the Nomono portable recording device! Enjoy!

Maria dives in to the data that Marcus Andersson and his team at Future Place Leadership, and share some really surprising findings. Did you know that engineers would rather move to a smaller city with a high level of safety, and economists find it more important to live in a place with a certain attractive lifestyle? Marcus explains this in detail and goes beyond the numbers and give us an insight to current trends and puts them in perspective. Let's go!

A lot of debate is going on about getting workers back in the office, and the motives for either side are diverse and might benefit from some open discussion. Well, we certainly think so at least! So in this episode Maria and I dig in to som of the headlines and trends we've come across lately and talk about what that might mean and how we might move forward. As always - feel free to join the conversation by dropping us an email! The book we mention is: Gillian Tett - Anthro-Vision.

We're ending this season with one of the greats - Lisette Sutherland! Lisette runs Collaboration Superpowers and we're diving into the practicalities of gearing your organization or your team to work from anywhere, and some key pointers to what the role of Head of Hybrid or Head of Remote might entail and things to think about if you're hiring. We'll take a little break over the summer and come back again in August with new episodes and topics! Is there something in particular you'd like us to talk about? LET US KNOW! You'll find us at maria@remotelab.io and anna@remotelab.io.

This episode features one of our favourite people – Chris Dyer! Chris has been running remote organisations for the past two decades and shares some of his insights and learnings about remote work in this episode. Key take aways: > Don’t try to force a new thing in with an old thing – fully commit to the new thing instead. Like: don’t bring the saddle when you go from riding a horse to driving a car. > Meetings can be thoughtfully designed and structured to serve the purpose of the meeting, Chris has a way to name them to make the purpose clearer.     > 1-1 meeting might not be as helpful as you think – Chris outlines situations that might need them, but also situations that might be better without them as they might not be conducive to getting work done.  > Hybrid is the hardest system to make work for employees and leaders – make it simpler by assuming that everyone is remote. This will democratize hybrid and make it a little easier on everyone.

Our new report is hot off the presses - Maria and I dig into the findings and talk a little bit about what the results might mean for local and regional development. You'll find the report in its entirety here: https://remotelab.io/rapport-coworking-och-regional-spridning-av-tillvaxtforetag/

Today’s episode features Johanna Olsson from The Hows, she is a chaos pilot, a writer and a remote advocate. Maria and Johanna talk about transformational leadership in organisations and what remote work might mean in this context. Johanna asks us to be brave, and to just keep moving forward with small steps and trust the people around you. Johanna has worked 10+ years with leadership and creative processes, within the education system as well as the private and public sector, in different parts of the world. https://www.thehows.se/ The book: Närhet trots avstånd: att leda och samarbeta på distans

Today's episode is with remote and hybrid guru Kenneth Hellem! We had a lovely conversation and I really hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Kenneth walks us through his process with building a smart structure for Beleco and talks about what he has learned along the way, and we talk about challenges and opportunities that might present themselves.