Work's Not Working... Let's Fix It!

About Work's Not Working... Let's Fix It!

Work’s Not Working… Let’s Fix It is a podcast from The People Space 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 show examines why so many traditional ways of working are breaking down, from job design and leadership to performance, culture and the role of AI. Through conversations with forward-thinking people leaders, innovators and academics, each episode tackles one clear problem facing work today – and surfaces the ideas, evidence and practical thinking needed to build something better. This is where future fit HR thinking is tested in public, connecting human-centred work, AI-augmented roles and new ways of organising to the realities leaders face now. Produced by The People Space. Find more insight, tools and analysis at thepeoplespace.com.

Publisher

Sian Harrington

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Feb 2023

Latest episode

26 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

34 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   26 Aug 2026

   Your Brain Isn’t Built For Work: The Faulty Model Behind Modern Management – Bruna De Palo

   In this episode of Work’s Not Working… Let’s Fix It Siân Harrington sits down with neuroscience-based executive coach and leadership strategist Bruna De Palo to challenge one of the biggest assumptions behind modern management: that people can think rationally, leave emotion at the door, absorb constant change and keep performing under chronic pressure. For years leaders have been taught neat stories about the brain: rational versus emotional, left brain versus right brain, the fear centre th...

2. 

   17 Jul 2026

   Your Hidden CV: The Job Search Rule No One Teaches Young People - Susie Thomson

   In this episode of Work’s Not Working… Let’s Fix It!, Siân Harrington sits down with Susie Thomson, chair-elect of the Professional Background Screening Association, to ask a question every young person, parent, careers adviser and employer should be thinking about: what happens when your digital identity becomes part of the hiring process? Most young people know they need a CV. Fewer realise they may already have another one: the posts, comments, photographs, likes and online traces that cre...

3. 

   2 Dec 2025

   The Transformation Myth: Why Big Change Fails in Real Life - Tom Kegode

   In this episode of Work’s Not Working… Let’s Fix It!, Siân Harrington sits down with Tom Kegode – former People & Places Culture Transformation Lead at Lloyds Banking Group – to challenge one of the most overused ideas in corporate life: transformation. Despite the slide decks, the roadmaps and the change programmes most organisations aren’t actually transforming. They’re stuck in cycles of exhaustion, over-promising and initiative-fatigue. Tom argues that the real fix lies somewhere very...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 24 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

24

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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