Episodes
Tuesday Apr 04, 2023
Tuesday Apr 04, 2023
Our April episode served as a roundup of recent and upcoming events on our calendar, namely 8x8, Enterprise Connect, VON Evolution and HPE Aruba. Chris and Jon also reviewed the current state of enterprise communications - in particular, what’s missing to make meetings feel more immersive, as well as inclusive, especially for remote workers. We also went out on a limb to talk about how collaboration vendors can borrow from the retail world to build their brands and showcase how great their experiences can be.
Thursday Mar 02, 2023
Thursday Mar 02, 2023
Over the course of 3 days, we had 18 sessions, dozens of speakers, and a very engaged audience – to find out what you missed, this is the podcast for you. Chris Fine and I discuss the highlights, and if you weren’t there, we hope this gets the event on your calendar for next February. For more about the event, including photos and press coverage, please visit my blog.
Thursday Feb 02, 2023
Thursday Feb 02, 2023
Jon is returning as Chair for Future of Work Expo in Ft. Lauderdale, and Chris will be active there too, so with the event fast-approaching, we started this episode with a preview of what to expect, and for those who can join us, you won’t be disappointed. Following that, Chris walked us through five key themes from this new global study, co-produced by Aruba Networks and Leesman. Never a dull moment, and the research confirms many foundational notions that business leaders need to base decisions on for supporting hybrid work.
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
As we usually do at this time of year, Chris and I provide our take on what to expect in 2023. We haven’t had this much economic uncertainty in many years, making our outlook more about survive than thrive, but also with a sense of promise for AI. For fellow analog lovers, Chris shares a treat, the NY subway “traintrackr”; and a preview for my Future of Work Expo, running Feb. 14-16.
Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
I attended three more industry conferences during November, and along with Chris, we explored the future of work implications – and there were many. Being the December episode, we closed things out with our 2022 takeaways, and will resume next month with our 2023 outlook.
Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
Industry conferences were in full swing last month, and the topics in this title provide a sense of what Chris and I talked about. October travel took me to three continents, so our perspectives are broad, and we don’t think you’ll mind this being a longer-than-usual episode.
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Quiet Firing, Return to Office, and Digital HQ from Salesforce
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
The hybrid work pendulum continues swinging back and forth, and following our discussion of quiet quitting last month, we look at the flip side this episode with quiet firing. We also examine new drivers for evolving workspace design, and what we think Salesforce is on to with their bold launch of Digital HQ.
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Crashing Tech Stocks and Quiet Quitting - is There a Connection?
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Quiet quitting has become the nom du jour in hybrid work circles, and in this episode, we examine the implications, as well as if there might be a connection to what’s behind the drastic falloff in tech stocks - especially those in the collaboration space. Hybrid work continues to face headwinds, and we also discuss how this is as much an HR problem as it is a tech problem.
Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
EY Work Reimagined Study - Getting Employees and Employers on the Same Page
Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
Our last podcast focused on highlights from Future of Work Expo, which included a keynote about this new study from Ernst & Young. The findings reveal some worrisome disconnects between employees and employers, which we explore in this episode, along with what enterprises should be doing to strike a tenable balance to support the hybrid work model.
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Future of Work Expo Review - Making Hybrid Work Work
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Having just returned from the Future of Work Expo in Ft. Lauderdale, Jon recaps the key themes, and co-host Chris Fine adds his perspective as to why hybrid work is harder to do than it looks. Having served as Chair for four years now, Jon explains why this year’s Future of Work Expo was the best to date, and provides a strong foundation for the 2023 edition, coming in February.
Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
The Metaverse, Innovation and Invention -Thinking Bigger About Future of Work
Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
What started as an exploration of the continued challenges faced by businesses to get workers back to the office, veered into the unchartered waters of the metaverse. Jon shared some future of work perspectives from his recent metaverse experience during the NICE Interactions event, and how workers can manage this along with physical workplace experiences. The led to our takeaways about how business leaders need to think beyond innovation, and to also to look for invention from technology players for shaping the future of work.
Tuesday May 03, 2022
Channel Partners Expo - Money Talks, Muddling Through Hybrid, HP Acquires Poly
Tuesday May 03, 2022
Tuesday May 03, 2022
With in-person conferences back in full swing now, Jon and Chris had some follow-on takes on Enterprise Connect, along with perspectives from the Channel Partners Expo that Jon recently attended. One main theme is the growing role Big Tech is playing in shaping workplace collaboration experiences to support hybrid work, and another is the role private equity seems poised to play now in consolidating the channel space. Just for good measure, we added our thoughts on HP’s acquisition of Poly.
Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
Enterprise Connect Recap - The Return to In-Person Industry Events!
Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
The title says it all, and with Spring and baseball around the corner, the timing was great for Enterprise Connect 2022. This is the most important event in the communications technology space, and we haven’t gathered since March 2019, so it was enough just to be there. The vibe was good, and I covered the highlights here with Chris.
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
The Technology of Trust – Digital Identity, Communications and the Future of Work
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Jon and Chris examine the relationship between personal identity and communications in today’s digital world, which lacks the security safeguards natively built into analog technologies. We discuss the challenges to keep technology innovation such as Web3 moving forward where trust is compromised, even for everyday communications. New narratives will be needed, and the concepts of synthetic media and media provenance were introduced as examples of what this new landscape will look like.
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
VON3 - Finding Intersections with Communications, Web3, NFTs, and Future of Work
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
There’s a lot to unpack in that podcast title, and that’s what we did, not just as attendees of Jeff Pulver’s VON3, but as speakers as well. Communications is an elastic concept, and VON3 explored emerging possibilities that go beyond the world of telephony and collaboration that Jon and Chris know so well.