Workplace Economies
About Us
About Workplace Economies
Every aspect of the world of work is interconnected, but everyone stays in their lane. The AI press covers AI. The HR press covers hiring. The property press covers offices. The SaaS press covers software. Nobody steps back and looks at how all of it connects.
That's what Workplace Economies is for.
When a company cuts its junior roles because AI can "do the work of three people," that decision doesn't stay in HR. It burns out the senior staff who absorb the review workload. It hollows out the talent pipeline. It reshapes the SaaS tools those teams rely on. It changes the office space they need. Every decision creates consequences that cross department lines, industry lines, and headline categories. We follow those consequences.
Our articles are researched, cited, and grounded in data. Our blog is shorter, more personal, and grounded in experience. Our podcast is where we talk it through, argue about it, and figure out what we actually think. Three formats, one editorial thread: the business decisions that look smart in isolation and turn out to be something else entirely when you follow the chain.
The Team
Jon started his career working in law firms, where he saw firsthand how decisions were made without including the people most affected by them. That pattern followed him into tech, and it's a thread that runs through everything Workplace Economies covers.
Over the past 15 years, he has built digital products across edtech, worktech, and fintech, working in and managing product teams at every stage of the lifecycle. That experience gave him a practical understanding of how decisions around technology, people, and strategy play out in practice rather than in theory.
As the founder of intheOffice.io, a flexible work coordination tool, he spends his time talking to businesses about how their teams actually work.
Away from the desk, Jon competes in international high-performance sports teams, where communication, trust under pressure, and team dynamics aren't abstract concepts. They're the difference between winning and losing.
AJ brings an unusually broad vantage point to the question of how organisations actually work. Over a 25-plus-year career spanning editorial leadership, digital performance marketing, and senior roles at software startups and professional services firms, he has sat at the table for decisions that span culture, technology, people and growth - and watched how rarely anyone in the room had the full picture.
His background in editorial gave him a grounding in how to understand people at depth - what drives them, what they value and how they make sense of the institutions they work within. That instinct carried through into senior marketing leadership, most notably as Head of Marketing at FranklinCovey, where he worked at SLT level to build teams, shape strategy, and help organisations navigate some of the harder questions around purpose and performance.
Supporting Jon with the marketing of intheOffice.io, he helped businesses rethink how people work together across distributed environments. He is currently building Superhero Panda, an AI-powered recruitment platform designed to replace the static CV with living, skills-first professional profiles - an attempt to fix a hiring system that, as AJ sees it, has not fundamentally changed in five centuries.