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Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture
by brucedaisley.com · English
MAKE WORK BETTER. Eat Sleep Work Repeat is the best podcast about workplace culture - it's been listened to millions of times. Bruce Daisley brings a curious mind to discussions about our jobs and the role they play in our lives. Sign up for the newsletter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Why workplace wellness programmes don't work
Workplace wellness programmes don’t improve workers’ wellbeing; the episode argues wellness initiatives often individualize responsibility, depoliticize labor reform, and can function as reputational…
4 Nov 2026 · 40m · 17 chaptersDoes 'nothing beat in person work'?
Debate over whether “nothing beats in-person work,” focusing on hybrid work.
22 Oct 2026 · 46m · 25 chaptersOffice politics, collective leadership and AI disruption
Office politics and workplace culture in professional services firms (law, accounting, consulting), focusing on collective leadership, identity/power dynamics, and how AI disruption may reshape…
14 Oct 2026 · 31m · 13 chaptersThe simple answer to improving productivity: asking employees
Declining task discretion (autonomy) at work and how giving employees more voice can improve productivity and well-being; includes discussion of work intensification, hybrid work, AI/job…
30 Sep 2026 · 33m · 12 chapters
What is REALLY happening with AI and jobs
AI and jobs—what’s really happening now, why job “future-proofing” predictions fail, and how to prepare people for uncertain work futures.
23 Sep 2026 · 40m · 15 chapters
What hospitality teaches us about culture
Hospitality as the core of workplace culture—how “how we treat people” drives customer experience, revenue, and organizational health.
9 Sep 2026 · 38m · 16 chapters
Stop talking about culture - deal with behaviours
Evidence-led workplace change; why “culture,” “engagement,” and other popular constructs are often misused; and how to focus on specific, observable behaviours instead.
14 Jul 2026 · 56m · 24 chapters
What chance do we have versus the machines?
Workplace culture and the future of work under AI/automation, arguing that the key issue is human agency and job design—not inevitability of job loss.
11 Jun 2026 · 43m · 18 chapters
Can one bad apple ruin your team?
The episode explores workplace culture through human synchrony: how people “click” via face-to-face connection, how “bad apples” (jerks, slackers, depressing downers) can spread negative behavior…
7 May 2026 · 47m · 20 chapters
Your colleagues like you more than you realise…
Workplace culture and well-being through “weak ties” and small conversations.
16 Apr 2026 · 47m · 20 chapters
Life Reclaimed with Pippa Grange
Workplace culture and burnout through Dr. Pippa Grange’s book Life Reclaimed—how chronic “game day” intensity, loss of meaning, and misaligned values lead to burnout, and how to design regenerative…
2 Apr 2026 · 40m · 15 chapters
We-ness: The secret cause of Psychological Safety
Workplace culture and the dynamics of work life.
14 Mar 2026 · 55m · 21 chapters
The more you talk about culture, the less people believe you
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26 Feb 2026 · 47m · 21 chapters
Flourishing at Work
This episode explores the concept of flourishing in work and life, focusing on attention, community, and the dynamics of successful teams.
3 Feb 2026 · 39m · 14 chapters
What makes for the Best Place to Work
Daniel Zhao, Chief Economist at Glassdoor
27 Jan 2026 · 22m · 9 chapters
Culture is built on 'moments of truth'
In this episode of Eat Sleep Work Repeat, Bruce Daisley interviews Kevin Green, the Chief People Officer of First Group.
23 Jan 2026 · 32m · 13 chapters
People-watching in the workplace
Workplace culture through “people-watching” using relationship psychology—self-reflection, attachment-style triggers, and how to build connection and psychological safety at work.
1 Dec 2025 · 43m · 14 chapters
What Gen Z need from work
Gen Z’s needs from work, framed by Edelman’s Gen Z Lab research on trust, safety, voice, and how to rethink workplace systems.
25 Nov 2025 · 39m · 16 chapters
Is training really corporate sludge?
Eat Sleep Work Repeat is focused on improving workplace culture through insightful discussions about the nature of work and employee experiences.
11 Nov 2025 · 42m
Strong team identity delivers success
How strong team identity drives workplace and team performance, using social identity theory and Jeremy Holt’s “tribe” model (Traditions, Relevance, Identity, Belonging, Effectiveness).
2 Nov 2025 · 45m · 20 chapters
To understand leadership, you need to understand identity
This episode of Eat Sleep Work Repeat argues that leadership is fundamentally identity work: leaders influence by mobilizing a shared social identity, making themselves a “model member” of the group,…
27 Oct 2025 · 52m · 19 chapters
Everything is identity
Identity as a workplace culture and human well-being driver; argues that focusing on the individual self (e.g., individual performance appraisal, hyper-competitive leadership) is often toxic, while…
21 Oct 2025 · 43m · 17 chapters
We need to tackle workplace loneliness
Workplace loneliness and how it affects mental/physical health, team dynamics, and productivity; why it’s not just a remote-work problem; and what individuals and organizations can do to mitigate it.
14 Oct 2025 · 46m · 25 chapters
Delivering culture through food
How food “holds culture together” at work—creating community, autonomy, identity, and emotional connection—plus practical ways employers can use food perks and office food moments to strengthen…
9 Oct 2025 · 35m · 15 chaptersWe use cookies.They keep VO running smoothly and help us improve it. Privacy policy