Jon Kent - Workplace Economies (Page 2)

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

I Replaced My Transcription Tool, Which Exposed a Bigger Problem

I Replaced My Transcription Tool, Which Exposed a Bigger Problem

An afternoon experiment that accidentally backed up the point of my last article.

AI’s Most Dangerous Feature is its Name

AI’s Most Dangerous Feature is its Name

The marketing worked too well. Businesses heard ‘intelligence’ and assumed they could treat it like the ultimate employee. The decisions that followed are proving costly.

The AI Bubble Nobody Sees Coming

The AI Bubble Nobody Sees Coming

Why the real threat to the AI economy isn’t a market crash. It’s AI working exactly as promised.

Welcome to WE

Open LinkedIn on any given morning and you'll find an expert with the answer. AI will fix your productivity. Return-to-office will fix your culture. Four-day weeks will fix retention. Cutting junior roles will fix your margins. There's always a single lever to pull,

The AI Review Tax: Why Cutting Junior Roles Is Setting Your Company Up for Burnout

The AI Review Tax: Why Cutting Junior Roles Is Setting Your Company Up for Burnout

Everyone’s talking about AI replacing entry-level workers. Nobody’s talking about who checks the work AI creates.

Bug Sweeping and Beyond: Cyber Security with Jon and G

Bug Sweeping and Beyond: Cyber Security with Jon and G

Jon sits down with G from security and investigations firm Valkyrie to pull back the curtain on the world of cyber and physical security and it's every bit as James Bond as it sounds. From a bugged extension plug discovered in a hedge fund COO's office,

Compressed Hours: More is Less?

Compressed Hours: More is Less?

Adam and Jon dig into one of the headline policies in the UK government's Employment Rights Bill - the right to request compressed hours. What starts as a discussion about four-day weeks quickly becomes a broader conversation about flexibility, productivity, the true cost of working differently, and whether

Fractional CMO: Half the Time, Double the Impact! (Part 2)

Fractional CMO: Half the Time, Double the Impact! (Part 2)

In part two, Emma Rainey goes deeper into the realities of fractional CMO life: the hurdles, the wins, and the mindset shift required when you leave the corporate world behind. She also gets into the heart of what's actually broken in most SME marketing, why authenticity is now

Fractional CMO: Half the Time, Double the Impact! (Part 1)

Fractional CMO: Half the Time, Double the Impact! (Part 1)

Emma Rainey, fractional CMO and former global marketing director at several US IT, SaaS and FinTech businesses, joins Adam and John to talk about what it really means to work fractionally — and what she's seeing on the ground when it comes to hybrid working and return-to-office