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Future of Work

External, structural forces reshaping work across industries, regardless of any single organisation’s choices.

Hiring & Talent

How people enter organisations, are assessed, developed, and retained.

Work Design & Careers

How work is structured, scoped, rewarded, and progressed over time.

Leadership

How authority is exercised, decisions are made, and accountability (or avoidance) shows up in organisations.

Workplace Culture

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

Oct 8, 2026

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5 min read

The oversight illusion: when accountability outruns agency

Why naming a responsible manager is a dangerous administrative fiction if they lack the expertise, visibility, time, and authority to evaluate autonomous AI decisions.

Shaida Darian
Shaida Darian

Sep 30, 2026

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5 min read

Return-to-Office, everyone’s back. What’s better?

The return-to-office debate and the risk of mistaking organisational problems for location problems.

Shaida Darian
Shaida Darian

Sep 28, 2026

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5 min read

Why does everyone hate their job?

Part 2: The problem is the blueprint

Clif P Lewis
Clif P Lewis

Sep 24, 2026

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4 min read

Why does everyone hate their job?

Part 1: The problem isn't the paycheque

Clif P Lewis
Clif P Lewis

Sep 23, 2026

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4 min read

The 120-hour Workweek

Flexible Working Hours. The hours are flexible, the expectation to respond is less so.

Shaida Darian
Shaida Darian

Sep 17, 2026

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3 min read

Four essays on systems that aren't doing what we think they are

Hiring, attention, management, and AI. All circling the same question.

Shaida Darian
Shaida Darian

Sep 16, 2026

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4 min read

The option, not the outcome: Is AI taking jobs, or taking the blame?

When organisations attribute job cuts to AI, they blur the line between technological capability and executive choice.

Shaida Darian
Shaida Darian

Sep 10, 2026

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4 min read

The Managerial Shock Absorber, or the path of least resistance?

Why we must stop treating the middle management role as an infinitely elastic buffer for organisational friction.

Shaida Darian
Shaida Darian

Sep 3, 2026

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4 min read

The Silent Killer

What constant stimulation is quietly doing to the way we work.

Shaida Darian
Shaida Darian

Aug 27, 2026

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4 min read

Applicant Tracking System, or applicant target practice?

Are we optimising recruitment, or optimising for employee success?

Shaida Darian
Shaida Darian

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