In this bonus edition of Work.Work.Work. we present our full interview with Catherine Hale, whose pioneering work has helped define a subset of chronic illness known as ‘energy limiting conditions’. In the interview we explore Catherine’s research in detail, unpicking the complexity of disability identity for people with chronic illness. We also explore the biases that prevent workplaces from becoming spaces of inclusivity, and the opportunity costs associated with not accessing this ‘invisible talent pool’ of workers. 

Host: Dr Peter Ghin

Guest: Catherine Hale - Head of Consulting, Astrid/Founder, Chronic Illness Inclusion

Mentioned:

2023: The state of the future of work 

Astriid

Energy impairment and disability inclusion

How flexible hiring could improve business performance and living standards

The business leaders hiding chronic illness 

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Are you exhausted? Well join the club! But imagine if that exhaustion wasn’t only a by-product of living in our modern times, but a physiological response to a multi-systemic illness that severely curtails your baseline energy levels. In today’s episode, we explore the world of chronic illness, particularly conditions like long-COVID, fibromyalgia, lupus, and ME/CFS, to better understand their impact on people’s capacity to work. 

We discuss the inadequacy of terms like ‘fatigue’ or ‘exhaustion’ to describe the experience of working and living with what one of our guests has termed ‘energy limiting conditions’, and what we think about as the great unnamed energy crisis of our time. We also discuss how organisations can create inclusive workplaces that are welcoming for employees of varying capacities and abilities. 

Host: Dr Peter Ghin

Guests:

Catherine Hale: Head of Consulting, Astrid/Founder, Chronic Illness Inclusion

Dr Jo Ingold: Associate Professor, Management, Deakin University

Ilena: Managing Director, start up

Mentioned:

2023: The state of the future of work 

Astriid

Energy impairment and disability inclusion

How flexible hiring could improve business performance and living standards

The business leaders hiding chronic illness 

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In this bonus edition of Work.Work.Work. we spend some one-on-one time with Dr Harriette Richards who was one of our featured guests on episode 2. In the interview we discuss a broad range of topics including the historical trends associated with work wear casualisation, the potential emancipatory effects of casualisation for professional women in the workforce, and we take a deeper dive into the gendered dynamics of fashion in the entrepreneurship space. 

Host: Dr Peter Ghin

Guest: Dr Harriette Richards: Lecturer Fashion Enterprise, RMIT; Host - Critical Studies Fashion Podcast

Mentioned:

The Beauty Salon Project

Fashioning founders: Dress and gender in the entrepreneurial ecosystem

Critical Fashion Studies Podcast

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Have you found yourself shunning tight-fitting clothing since the pandemic? Are you spending your entire working life in ‘athleisure’ wear? For many people, particularly remote workers, the pandemic was a time when the home became a place of online work, virtual education, and tech-mediated socialisation. And our wardrobes adapted to the lockdown era with comfort favouring formality. In this episode, we explore the complexities of fashion and grooming during the pandemic and into COVID normal. With my guests, we discuss the legacy effects of the pandemic on workwear and the increasing trend toward casualisation. We also do a deep dive into the gendered dimension of virtual work and question the extent to which the workwear casualisation movement has had an emancipatory effect for women. 

Host: Dr Peter Ghin

Guests

Dr Briony Lipton: Visiting Research Fellow, ANZSOG (ANU Crawford School); Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Sydney Business School

Sulagna Basu: PhD Candidate, University of Sydney

Dr Sophie Lea: Lecturer in Counselling, Monash University, Co-Founder/Director of Kind Schools

Dr Harriette Richards: Lecturer Fashion Enterprise, RMIT. 

Mentioned:

Covid Casual: Refashioning professional attire in the age of remote working:

The Beauty Salon Project

Fashioning founders: Dress and gender in the entrepreneurial ecosystem

Critical Fashion Studies Podcast

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Back in 2007 there was this thing called the Global Financial Crisis – you might have heard of it. It had a massive impact on the lives of many young people who were at the very beginning of their working lives, and we didn’t really understand the full scale of that impact until years later. 

In this episode, with my guest Jan Owen AM, we unpick what we learned from the GFC and discuss how it may foreground the effects of the pandemic on the careers of young people. But it’s not all doom and gloom. We also discuss the positives of the ‘pandemic reset’ and how there are many upsides about graduating into a world of employment in which hybrid working is the new normal, and people are renegotiating whether they want work to be the dominant driver of their lives.

Host: Dr Peter Ghin

Guest: 

Jan Owen AM: Entrepreneur, Co-Chair Learning Creates Australia, Former CEO Foundation for Young Australians

Mentioned: 

The New Work Reality – Foundation for Young Australians

The Great Migration: Leaving our Cities for the Regions Part II: Current working patterns, future work perspectives' -  Future of Work Lab

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How have young people fared during the pandemic and what are the lasting legacies of COVID-19 on their future career pathways? In this episode, we’ll hear from a number of experts who’ll discuss how the pandemic has disrupted the career development of young people. 

We’ll also explore the opportunities that have arisen from graduating into a new world of work, a world in which remote and hybrid working is an established norm and many of us are reassessing how much we want work to dominate our lives. We’ll also hear from young people too about their lessons from the pandemic and how they’ve adapted to working in the era of Covid-normal. 

Host: Dr Peter Ghin

Guests: 

Prof Lucas Walsh: Professor of Education Policy and Practice, Youth Studies, Director Monash Centre for Youth Policy & Education Practice. 

Jan Owen AM: Entrepreneur, Co-Chair Learning Creates Australia, Former CEO Foundation for Young Australians

Dr Jan Kabátek: Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute, the University of Melbourne. 

Carmody: Student, freelance creative

Venya: Student, admin assistant 

Mentioned:

The New Work Reality 

Life, Disrupted: Young people, education and employment before and after COVID-19 

Jobless and distressed: the disproportionate effects of COVID-19 on young Australians 

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Hosted by Dr Peter Ghin, Work.Work.Work. expertly guides you through people's lived experience of the modern workplace. We explore the way work is changing, and more importantly, how people are experiencing those changes. And we're not just talking about major technological shifts, but the nitty gritty, day to day stuff that can make our work a labor of love, and sometimes not so much with the love. 

Work.Work.Work. is presented by a team of scholars from different research disciplines that make up what's called the Work Futures Hallmark Research Initiative. We're an eclectic bunch, and we hope that our diversity of thinking will bring you a different take on not only what the future of work looks like, but what it feels like to be a worker in an employment landscape that has never felt more filled with possibilities. And so terrifyingly dystopian at the same time.   

Listen to the trailer to catch a glimpse of what's in store for Season 1!

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