If the pandemic years saw the office become a 'blank space', the hybrid era gradually witnessed that space fill up again through return-to-office mandates.

In this week's episode of The Mindtools L&D Podcast, Rob Baker joins us to continue our 'Eras Tour'. We discuss:

how the pandemic created an opportunity for 'job crafting', and what's changed since we've come out of lockdown
whether job crafting has lost relevance since the pandemic, or just gotten harder to realize
what new research tells us about the impact of job crafting on performance and wellbeing.

You can find out more about the work Rob does at tailoredthinking.co.uk.

See also:

Tailored Thinking's series of articles on Work and Job Design (including AI crafting): Building Better Work by Design
Rob's book, Personalization at Work: Personalization at Work

In 'What I Learned This Week', Rob discussed the art of subtraction, including the Lego experiment explored in this video.

Ross G referenced an article in People Management on the challenge we may experience fulfilling AI roles in the future.

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