Work’s Not Working… Let’s Fix It!

Future fit HR thinking on how work, jobs and leadership are being reinvented

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What It’s About: Work, Fixed.

Work’s Not Working… Let’s Fix It is The People Space podcast exploring how work is being reinvented – and what that means for HR, leaders and organisations navigating constant change.

Hosted by award-winning journalist Siân Harrington, the podcast examines why many traditional ways of working are breaking down, from job design and leadership to performance, culture and the growing role of AI.

Through conversations with forward-thinking HR leaders, academics and practitioners, each episode focuses on one clear problem shaping work today and the ideas, evidence and practical thinking needed to respond.

The podcast is part of The People Space’s Future Fit HR platform, where human-centred work, AI-augmented roles and new approaches to organising are explored in depth through journalism, research and practical tools.

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What If the Office Is the Problem? Prithwiraj Choudhury

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In this episode of Work’s Not Working… Let’s Fix It!, Siân Harrington sits down with Prithwiraj Choudhury, professor at the London School of Economics and bestselling author of The World is Your Office, to challenge our most stubborn assumption: that work must happen in the office.

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Be a guest

We get a lot of guest pitches. We’re selective!

We’re interested in people with a strong, specific point of view on what’s broken in today’s world of work and how to fix it.

✅ A strong pitch will:

Focus on a clear, specific problem in work 

Explain why it matters now

Offer practical ideas, lived experience or credible research to fix it

Align with our human, informed and provocative tone (without hype or self-promotion).

🚫 We don’t accept:

Generic leadership tips

Vague AI evangelism

Sales pitches dressed as insight.

If that sounds like you please send us a sharp, clear pitch using the contact form here.

 

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