Workplace Culture

The shared norms, behaviours, and emotional experience of work. How it feels to be inside an organisation day to day.

Workplace Culture

Jul 16, 2026

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4 min read

🥐 Why do we care about Google's free breakfast?

Why workplace perks shape our impression of company culture.

Frank Richardson

Future of Work

🤖 Is AI becoming your favourite colleague?

Jul 8, 2026

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5 min read

🤖 Is AI becoming your favourite colleague?

New research suggests more employees are turning to AI for advice, brainstorming and even companionship. But at what cost?

Frank Richardson

Workplace Culture

⚽ Everyone's an expert after the whistle

Jun 30, 2026

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4 min read

⚽ Everyone's an expert after the whistle

Why every failed project suddenly creates a room full of strategic geniuses.

Frank Richardson

Workplace Culture

💰 Musk’s trillion-dollar motivation problem

Jun 17, 2026

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5 min read

💰 Musk’s trillion-dollar motivation problem

What happens when success becomes so extreme that it stops feeling motivational?

Frank Richardson

Work Design & Careers

Jun 9, 2026

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4 min read

🎮 When work turns into a game

How dashboards, streaks, and “visibility” are reshaping what people care about

Frank Richardson

Workplace Culture

🫠 The worst role at work right now? The reliable one

May 28, 2026

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5 min read

🫠 The worst role at work right now? The reliable one

How effort has shifted from something to be admired to something to be managed.

Frank Richardson

Workplace Culture

Apr 16, 2026

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4 min read

🐶 The office dog effect

And what most workplace initiatives miss about stress, connection and getting through the day.

Frank Richardson

Future of Work

Apr 2, 2026

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8 min read

🌍 Business as usual is feeling weird

The world feels heavier, while work still expects the same version of you to show up, stay focused, and carry on.

Frank Richardson

Workplace Culture

Mar 27, 2026

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9 min read

😬 What if you just don’t like them?

The uncomfortable reality of working with people who haven’t done anything wrong.

Frank Richardson

Workplace Culture

🧠 AI brain fry may be the cost of efficiency

Mar 19, 2026

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9 min read

🧠 AI brain fry may be the cost of efficiency

Work is getting faster. So why does it feel mentally flatter?

Frank Richardson

Workplace Culture

👶 When the nepo baby lands in your Org chart

Mar 5, 2026

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8 min read

👶 When the nepo baby lands in your Org chart

How one questionable hire can quietly destabilise a team’s faith in merit and fairness.

Frank Richardson

Workplace Culture

🥈 The Olympics are proof we can’t handle “almost”

Feb 19, 2026

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8 min read

🥈 The Olympics are proof we can’t handle “almost”

What the Winter Olympics reveal about high performers, promotions and the psychology of coming second.

Frank Richardson

Workplace Culture

🏈 Was the Super Bowl more inclusive than your workplace?

Feb 12, 2026

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9 min read

🏈 Was the Super Bowl more inclusive than your workplace?

A real-world lesson from one of the biggest stages in the world on what thoughtful inclusion looks like.

Frank Richardson

Work Design & Careers

🎤 The Grammys problem, now playing at work

Feb 5, 2026

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8 min read

🎤 The Grammys problem, now playing at work

What the awards season reveals about how organisations decide who “deserves” recognition.

Frank Richardson

Workplace Culture

🪞 Is ‘talent density’ substance or smoke?

Jan 29, 2026

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8 min read

🪞 Is ‘talent density’ substance or smoke?

Why concentrating “the best people” might cost more than leaders expect.

Frank Richardson

Work Design & Careers

🏖️ Unlimited PTO is dreamy... Until you try to use it.

Jan 22, 2026

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8 min read

🏖️ Unlimited PTO is dreamy... Until you try to use it.

Reddit threads, behavioural science, and why “take what you need” often turns into taking less than ever.

Frank Richardson

Work Design & Careers

🎯 Your January goals were great... in theory

Jan 15, 2026

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8 min read

🎯 Your January goals were great... in theory

Why optimism bias, planning fallacy, and reality collide by week two.

Frank Richardson

Work Design & Careers

🤔 Did you go back to work, or become someone else?

Jan 8, 2026

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8 min read

🤔 Did you go back to work, or become someone else?

The quiet identity shift that makes returning to work feel harder than expected.

Frank Richardson

Work Design & Careers

🤨 Why you’re not as good at your job as you may think

Dec 4, 2025

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9 min read

🤨 Why you’re not as good at your job as you may think

An uncomfortable look at the psychology of overconfidence and why so many people feel sure long before they’re accurate.

Frank Richardson

Work Design & Careers

Nov 25, 2025

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10 min read

✨Director of vibes✨ Is not a job title

A behavioural-science take on why job titles keep getting stranger and how leaders can restore meaning

Frank Richardson

Workplace Culture

✂️ Layoffs are hard. Condé Nast made them harder.

Nov 19, 2025

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8 min read

✂️ Layoffs are hard. Condé Nast made them harder.

What the Condé Nast blowup shows about fear, silence and the damage caused when leaders avoid hard conversations

Frank Richardson

Workplace Culture

📣 What Mamdani’s win says about the boss people actually want

Nov 13, 2025

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9 min read

📣 What Mamdani’s win says about the boss people actually want

His grassroots campaign wasn’t just political, it’s a case study in how belonging beats authority at work

Frank Richardson

Workplace Culture

👑 The Prince Andrew problem: why we protect toxic power

Oct 30, 2025

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8 min read

👑 The Prince Andrew problem: why we protect toxic power

Every workplace has its own “untouchable.” This is what happens when leaders protect the powerful and leave everyone else to clean up the mess.

Frank Richardson

Workplace Culture

😒 “I don’t like you”: Why Trump can say it and you can’t

Oct 22, 2025

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9 min read

😒 “I don’t like you”: Why Trump can say it and you can’t

Honesty might feel good, but professionalism keeps the peace. Here’s how to stay cool when a coworker makes you want to lose it.

Frank Richardson

Work Design & Careers

🍸 Workplace Drinking: The hidden productivity killer

Oct 16, 2025

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10 min read

🍸 Workplace Drinking: The hidden productivity killer

A new report says one in three employees has called in sick after work drinks. Maybe the real hangover is cultural.

Frank Richardson