Office Hours is the podcast that answers the business questions you’re too afraid to ask.
Each episode pairs an academic from King’s Business School with a guest from industry or public life to break down complex topics in a simple and relevant way.
Whether you're a student, a graduate, or simply someone interested in how business shapes the world around us, Office Hours offers accessible conversations that blend cutting-edge research with real-world experience, delivering thoughtful discussion and practical takeaways.
Can you enjoy your job and still feel that you chose the wrong career?
Dr Ali Budjanovcanin, Reader in Leadership at King’s Business School, explores occupational regret: the feeling that a different career choice might have produced a better life.
Ali explains why regret can disappear and return, how comparison with other people’s careers can bring it back to the surface, and why qualifications, income, identity and family responsibilities can make changing direction difficult.
The conversation also looks at how to tell whether the problem is your occupation, your employer or your current stage of life. Ali shares practical ways to gather better evidence before making a costly change, from testing an idea through a side project to speaking with people who have entered, remained in or left the career you are considering.
And if “What do you want to be when you grow up?” asks us to choose one identity for life, what should we ask instead?
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11 Jun 2026
Football's Plastic Problem
Every football fan knows the feeling.
A new shirt drops. The design is perfect. The player you love is wearing it. It might sell out. And suddenly, the question of whether you actually need another football shirt becomes much harder to answer.
As the largest FIFA World Cup in history gets underway, Office Hours explores the psychology, business and environmental impact of football merchandise with Dr Byungdoo Kim from the Centre for Sustainable Business at King’s Business School.
Football shirts have evolved from simple sporting uniforms into fashion statements, cultural symbols and expressions of identity. From David Beckham’s influence on fashion and TikTok’s blokecore trend to the explosion of limited-edition releases, the football shirt has become a powerful product built on emotion and belonging.
But what does that mean for sustainability?
Dr Kim explains why fans often do not see football shirts as ordinary consumer goods, how brands navigate unpredictable demand driven by star players and tournament moments, and why the industry’s biggest challenge may not just be making greener shirts, but asking a more difficult question:
Do we really need another one?
Office Hours is the podcast from King’s Business School, bringing world-leading research into the conversations shaping business, work and society.
29 May 2026
Why is the World Cup so expensive?
The 2026 FIFA World Cup is being billed as the biggest tournament in football history. But with some England fans facing costs of up to £5,000 to follow the group stage, who is the tournament really designed for?In this episode of Office Hours, Professor Sally Everett, Professor of Business Education at King's Business School and author of Decolonising Tourism Education, explores the business, tourism and economic systems behind modern mega-events.From soaring ticket prices and expensive accommodation to controversial transport charges, Sally argues that the World Cup reveals deeper questions about how global sporting events are designed, who benefits from them, and who gets left behind.The conversation explores:⚽ Why mega-events increasingly target "high-value visitors" rather than ordinary fans⚽ Whether host cities genuinely benefit from tournaments like the FIFA World Cup and Olympic Games⚽ Why success in sport tourism is often measured through revenue, growth and prestige⚽ How tourism education can reinforce existing systems and assumptions⚽ The winners and losers of global sporting events⚽ What future World Cups could look like if accessibility, wellbeing and community impact mattered as much as economic growthDrawing on examples from the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and London, and wider research into tourism systems, Sally explains why the debate around football is really a debate about economics, access and power.If the World Cup is the world's game, who gets to experience it?🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and all major podcast platforms.📺 Subscribe for more conversations exploring business, leadership, economics and the future of work through the lens of world-leading research.
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