Is crushing office boredom a curse or an opportunity?Manuela Saragosa hears from David Bolchover, a writer who spent years at major insurance firms with almost nothing to do all day, and Tom Hodgkinson, founder of the Idler magazine, on why being idle is so important to the creative process.(Photo: A man relaxing at work, Credit: Thinkstock)
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Folge vom 28.06.2021How to be Idle
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Folge vom 26.06.2021Business WeeklyOn this edition of Business Weekly, we look at Tokyo 2020 and hear how the organisers of the Olympic Games are trying to get spectators into the venues, whilst trying to minimise the risk from coronavirus. We also take a look at legal challenges brought against employers who are insisting workers have a Covid vaccination before they re-enter the office. We hear from both an international legal expert, and the lawyer representing a group in Texas who want to take their case all the way to the Supreme Court. Plus, we hear how getting the nuance wrong in corporate communications can be costly, and what businesses can do to ensure they respect and understand local cultures. Business Weekly is presented by Sasha Twining and produced by Matthew Davies.
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Folge vom 25.06.2021Co-ordinating intimacyThere is a new job on film sets, a job that has grown out of the #MeToo movement. Manuela Saragosa speaks to Ita O’Brien, the woman who created the guidelines for the role, about why every film set needs an intimacy co-ordinator.Could their inclusion as members of the production team become a legal requirement? We hear from Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety magazine's senior correspondent in Los Angeles.Producer: Sarah Treanor and Benjie Guy(Photo: Actors Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan in the film Fifty Shades of Grey. Credit: Alamy)
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Folge vom 24.06.2021Can we trust Big Tech with our health data?Big Tech companies such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft are moving into AI healthcare services in a big way. But can we trust private, for-profit, companies to use our data properly? Prof Allyson Pollock, director of the Newcastle University Centre for Excellence in Regulatory Science in the UK, tell the BBC's Ed Butler she is alarmed at the rate healthcare services are being privatised in the country. And Nicholson Price, Professor at the University of Michigan School of Law in the US, warns that the stakes are different when tech companies collect healthcare than say marketing information. But Dr Robert Wachter, Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, says that though these concerns are real, it may be a price we have to pay for better healthcare in the future.Producers: Frey Lindsay, Laurence Knight.(Image credit: Getty Creative)