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Work 20XX with Jeff Frick
by Jeff Frick
Welcome to Work 20XXA show focused on the future of work as we navigate transformational times. I'm your host Jeff Frick. We'll talk to the practitioners, with 100,000s of newly empowered employees, looking for a different relationship with their employer. We'll talk to the technology providers, who are responding to these changing demands with new tools leveraging the latest in AI and ML.We'll explore the impacts of the rising tide of gig workers, solopreneurs, consultants, and 1099 services that enable them to cater to a global market. We'll talk to the academics, authors, and thought leaders who are helping us all get a better handle on what's really going on, and what it means to each of us.Our goal is to bring you the human story behind the issues, the context, and the relevance in the spirit of sharing best practices and experiences so we can all contribute to making the future of work better for people, organizations, and our world.
Episodes
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Tracy St.Dic: Rethink Hiring, Slope not Snapshot, AI Fluency, AI Interviews | Work 20XX Ep66
Tracy St.Dic is Global Head of Talent at Zapier, where she's spent the last several years rebuilding hiring from the ground up for an AI-native world. "Slope, not snapshot" is her phrase — she's not interested in where a candidate stands today, she's interested in the angle of their learning…
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Sacha Connor v3: Not Technical, No Excuse, Leading AI Adoption | Work 20XX Ep65
Sacha Connor has been coming to Running Remote since 2019, when the conference was held in Bali, and this episode marks her third appearance on Work 20XX. Please join me in welcoming Sacha Connor back to the Work 20XX podcast. In Austin for the second year running with the team at Running Remote,...
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Lucy Stein: Clear is Kind, Assume Positive Intent | Work 20XX Ep64
Lucy Stein just watched Givebutter cross $10 billion in donations raised for nonprofits, ten years after she joined the company as employee number seven. Please join me in welcoming Lucy Stein to the Work 20XX podcast. In Austin for the second year collaborating with the team at Running Remote…
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Vinícius Coelho: Know the Team, Growth and Impact | Work 20XX Ep63
Vinícius Coelho: Know the Team, Growth and Impact | Work 20XX with Jeff Frick Ep63 from Running Remote Vini Coelho recently added Chief of Staff and VP Operations to his People and Culture role at Time Doctor, 140 people spread across 40 countries and 24 time zones. And Vini's met them all.…
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Nick Francis: Calibration, War Council, High Agency Investment | Work 20XX Ep62
Let me re-read the transcript to nail the details and get Nick's language right.Here's the Libsyn description, built to match the Bobbi Wegner template: Nick Francis: Calibration, War Council, High Agency Investment | Work 20XX Ep 62 Nick Francis co-founded Help Scout in 2011 and ran it as CEO…
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Bobbi Wegner: Culture Is Relationship at Scale | Work 20XX Ep61
Bobbi Wegner: Culture Is Relationship at Scale | Work 20XX Ep 61 Bobbi Wegner is a clinical psychologist, Harvard lecturer, and Founder and CEO of Groops — a psychology-based coaching platform built on a simple, solid premise: people are social beings, hardwired for connection. "Animals in suits"...
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Gianna Driver: How You Treat the Waiter, Humans First, Employees Second | Work 20XX Ep60
Gianna Driver didn't come to Running Remote 2026 as a remote work evangelist. She came as a Chief People Officer who believes, deeply, that how you design the spaces where people gather, physically, culturally, organizationally, determines everything about the kind of company you actually become....
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Nadia Vatalidis: Extreme Async, Unguarded Feedback, Career by Initiative | Work 20XX Ep59
Nadia Vatalidis flew 10,000 miles, almost halfway around the world, to share her insights at Running Remote 2026 in Austin. And the distance is more than geographic. She doesn't live in the US, Europe or Asia. Her vantage is from South Africa, which povides a unique look 'back' if you will at the...
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Liam Martin v2: Distributed Intelligence, AI-Native Organizations | Work 20XX Ep58
Liam Martin joined me fresh off the stage at Running Remote's 10th event, a milestone that puts into sharp relief just how much the landscape has shifted since that scrappy little secret called remote work became the world's crash course in 2020. What started as documentation, async, and trust…
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The Big Game: Worst to First – Culture, Talent, Champions | Work 20XX Ep57
Indiana went 16-0 and won the national championship with 7 blue-chip recruits. Their opponents had 110+. What does Curt Cignetti's talent evaluation strategy teach us about the future of work? It's not about return to office. It's not about hybrid schedules. It's about creating an environment…
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Work 2026: AI Adoption, Curiosity, Continuous Learning | Work 20XX Ep56
Welcome to 2026! After four years and 50+ episodes of Work 20XX, it's time to evolve the conversation. The return-to-office debates? We've covered them exhaustively. The real action now is in AI adoption, continuous learning, and building the skills that matter for distributed work. In this...
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Liam Martin v1: Community Retreat, Remote, AI | Work 20XX Ep55
Liam Martin shared his full circle moment with me at Running Remote, almost 5 years to the day he was forced to cancel Running Remote's last visit to Austin, April 2020. With prior stops in Lisbon and Montreal, Running Remote's return to Austin was a community fest. Remote first organizations…
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Michael Melen: Talent Pool, Growth Opportunity | Work 20XX Ep54
Mike Melen took a college side hustle, and built it into a growing global digital marketing agency. After starting full remote, Mike opened an office in Bergen County, New Jersey. Covid closed the office, and SmartSites is back to being fully remote to stay. Remote hiring opened up the available...
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Melinda Stallings: Positivity, PechaKucha, Gifts, Reset | Work 20XX Ep53
Melinda Stallings brings the power of positivity to the workplace and stage. Founder of The Positive Consultant and curator of DisruptHR Austin, Melinda promotes the "infinite power of positivity," consulting with individual organizations and extending her reach as the force behind DisruptHR...
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Robert Phelps: Cybersecurity, People, Responsibility, Test | Work 20XX Ep52
Robert Phelps helps keep remote teams secure, often before they even know they're at risk. As President of Creative IT, Robert and team provide IT services for companies that are too small to build an in-house department, or those that need a little assist. Robert and I spoke at Running Remote…
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Karrie Sullivan: Results, Resilient, Reluctant, Readiness | Work 20XX Ep51
Karrie Sullivan has been on the edge of digital transformation since the earliest days of digital media, with a stint at Cars.com during the late '90 internet boom. She knows about getting people to change behavior, to adopt the new, to do things differently. As she said, people won't change...
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Henrik Jarleskog: AI Squad, BarCeptionist, Full Stack Hospitality | Work 20XX Ep50
Henrik Järleskog, has been on my radar for some time. He's an active member of the 'future of work' community on LinkedIn, frequently contributing articles, keynotes, posts, panel discussions, podcasts appearances and more. I knew I'd have him on eventually…. And then he dropped the post … 'Not…
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Brian Robertson: Authority, Clarity, Limits, System | Work 20XX Ep49
Brian Robertson' leadership philosophies are based on empowering the system, not the people. With clear limits, an 'act don't ask' permissive mindset, the culture seeks to foster more entrepreneurial leadership, when people can exercise authority and autonomy, rather then sitting around, waiting…
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Mindy Honcoop: Fractional, Upskill, Micro dose Change | Work 20XX Ep48
Mindy Honcoop helps people grow, one micro dose at a time. As the founder of Agile in HR and a seasoned people leader, Mindy brings a unique lens as her path started in the juvenile justice system, working with kids, and figuring out how happiness, and being one's best self at work, contributed…
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Justin Harlan: Move for $10K, Stay for Community | Work 20XX Ep47
Justin Harlan wants you to move to Tulsa. But not just for the $10,000 check. He wants you to consider building your life in Tulsa. As Managing Director of Tulsa Remote, Justin leads a groundbreaking initiative to attract talented, remote workers to diversity Tulsa's economic base beyond oil and...
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Zach Boyette: Remote, Design, Freedom, Games | Work 20XX Ep46
Zach Boyette got a business class view of the world and decided to build a life, and company around the freedom to design one's own life, not only for Zach the traveler, but all the employees, regardless of the design they choose, living anywhere in the world. As co-founder and CEO of Galactic…
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Phil Kirschner v2: Vibe, Pulse, Transparency, Nudge | Work 20XX Ep45
Phil Kirschner returns to Work 20XX with a fresh perspective on how we actually get work done, and exploring a concept he calls "vibe officing." And yes, it's a verb. As Phil puts it, "technology should help us be more human," navigating between spaces, people, and pulse moments with greater flow...
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Sophie Wade v2: Digitalized, Multi-Gen, What Is | Work 20XX Ep44
Sophie Wade returns to Work 20XX with a powerful reminder, the future of work is digitalized, multi-gen, and human-first. And that's not a typo, it is a process of work being broken down, and digitalized, and to quote Sophie, 'the tech driven world and operations is changing how we work, not the...
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Brian Elliott v3: Invest, J-Curve, Goals, Team | Work 20XX Ep43
Brian Elliott returns to Work 20XX with a fresh lens on scaling distributed work, investing in people, and navigating the J-curve of technology adoption inside teams. Because what works for supporting distributed teams, works for increasing team AI adoption. Align on real goals, only three to…
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Sacha Connor v2: Self-Advocacy in the Age of AI | Work 20XX Ep42
Sacha Connor returns to Work 20XX and asks, how do you self advocate, make sure the right people see and are familiar with your accompaniments, skills, and potential, when the most important factor when being considered for that next promotion or fresh opportunity is an AI agent preparing a list…
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Ryan Anderson v2: Support Rich Interpersonal Interactions | Work 20XX Ep41
Ryan Anderson and his global research team are spread across more than 20 countries, allowing them to study a wide variety of built environments, workplaces, homes, schools, and healthcare, not just remotely, but in person. That in-person presence is critical. It gives them the ability to feel...
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"JJ" Jessica Reeder: Scaling Knowledge, Evolution, Operations | Work 20XX Ep40
Jessica "JJ" Reeder was there, with Darren Murph, at GitLab, early pandemic, when suddenly the entire world was interested in their masterpiece, the GitLab Remote Work handbook. When the world was thrown into remote and distributed work over a weekend in Spring 2020, and answers to many of the...
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Mark Cruth: Agreements, Alignment, Explicit, Foundations | Work 20XX Ep39
Mark Cruth, Principal Modern Work Coach and Advocate at Atlassian, has been knee deep in the Atlassian system of work for years. A driving force behind Atlassian's Team playbook,and a big fan of starting from templates, Mark has been helping organizations implement better ways of working. Such a...
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Dominic Price v2: Curiosity, Impact, Listen, Value | Work 20XX Ep38
Dominic Price returns to Work 20XX, this time from the floor of Atlassian's Team '25 conference in Anaheim. Dom shared his candor, introspection, experiences, and hopes on the back end of a busy week, in person, across a small high boy table, on far more than the future of work. Simultaneously...
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Peter Marquez: Evolution, Ecosystem, Responsive, Rovo | Work 20XX Ep37
Peter Marquez, Chief Customer Officer at ServiceRocket, joins us from the floor of Atlassian Team '25 in Anaheim to share his frontline perspective on the vibe and announcements, including Rovo, Atlassian's AI assist, now included with purchase. With over a decade of experience, we cover the...
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Molly Sands: Clarity, Empowered, Disciplined, Rituals | Work 20XX Ep36
Molly Sands is Head of Teamwork Lab at Atlassian, where she helps distill what makes teams great, the practices, tools, exercises, behaviors and rituals that great teams tick. Built on first person research, delivered by Molly and team from the Teamwork Lab. Results are published regularly via a...
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Andrew Boyagi: Better, Experience, Productivity, System | Work 20XX Ep35
Andrew Boyagi just completed a multi time zone, multi country, multi week development project with no meetings. Not one. No kick off meetings, no status meetings, zero. And no one even notices until it was pointed out after the fact. Sure, Andrew still kicked off the project. Of course everyone...
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Charles Corley: Culture, Wellness, Visualization, AI Colleague | Work 20XX Ep34
Charles Corley traveled to Singapore via Hong Kong to start a new chapter over thirty years ago. He stepped off a night train into a bustling world heretofore only seen on a big screen at the cinema. Charles is not afraid of change, he embraces the new. As Director of Development at M Moser and...
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Connie Noonan Hadley: Loneliness, Psychological Safety, Team Effectiveness, AI | Work 20XX Ep33
Connie Noonan Hadley, Founder and Chief Scientist at the Institute for Life at Work, has been exploring team effectiveness since our paths first crossed in Philadelphia thirty years ago. After roles at General Mills and McKinsey & Company, she dedicated herself to academia to further her research...
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Chet Kapoor: GenAI, My Agent, Human-like, Reinvention | Work 20XX Ep32
Chet Kapoor, Chairman and CEO of Datastax, is all in on GenAI, aka Generative Artificial Intelligence. When ChatGPT burst into public consciousness in November 2022, Chet pivoted his team and the company to seize a leadership position in the fifth major technology wave of his 30+ year technology...
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Julie Whelan v3: Sentiment Shift, Location, Vibrancy | Work 20XX Ep31
Julie Whelan and the CBRE research team delivered the updated 2024 edition of the US Office Occupier Sentiment Survey. This marks the third consecutive year we've had Julie on to share the findings and some of the insights behind the numbers. For the first time since Covid, according to Julie…
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Evan Benway: Dynamic Sound, Positive Well-Being | Work 20XX Ep30
Evan Benway, a musician and the child of musicians, has been immersed in the creation and study of music since his earliest days. Through his deep appreciation for the evocative power and joy of sound, Evan understands how profoundly music can affect mood and emotions. However, in his…
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Tony Jamous: Global, Talent, Sustainable, Unreactive | Work 20XX Ep29
Tony Jamous started Oyster in January 2020 to use the power of software to address the disequilibrium between the tens of millions of un-filled knowledge worker jobs in the West, with the Billion plus new knowledge workers coming on line in the next 10 years in the developing world. Connecting…
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Brian Elliott v2: AI, Experiment, Outcomes, Trust | Work 20XX Ep28
Brian Elliott mined one of the primary information veins on attitudes about work, workplace, the impact of agency, trust, and outcomes-focused management, effectively moving work forward at the team level, in concert with organizational and individual objectives. The Future Forum Pulse survey,...
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Sacha Connor v1: Learn, Skills, Mindset, Behaviors | Work 20XX Ep27
Sacha Connor took a risk. Working on the west coast, for a company she enjoyed in a job she loved, she put it on the line in the interest of wanting her soon to be first born child to grow up around her extended family in Philadelphia. So in 2010, she asked, can I keep my position, but move 3,000...
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Chase Warrington: Priorities, Abroad, Async, Retreats | Work 20XX Ep26
Chase Warrington established travel and international experiences as his guiding priorities early in his career, recognizing the necessity of making significant trade-offs to achieve these goals. After a brief period in the corporate sector, Chase joined Doist, a fully remote company with 100...
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Jack Nilles: Telecommuting, Tradeoffs, Resistance, Incentives | Work 20XX Ep25
Jack (John) M Nilles coined the term 'Telecommuting' when describing the trade-offs between using the phone and commuting. After the first 20 years of his career coordinating interdisciplinary technology teams in the development of top-secret optical systems for satellites and NASA, and spurred…
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Michelle Ossmann: Hospitality, Welcome, Security, Care | Work 20XX Ep24
Michelle Ossmann, PhD, MSN started her career as a Nurse practitioner, delivering services to patients in need. She saw an opportunity to use design to better support more patients at scale, and just as importantly, the Nurse practitioners and other health care team members who face a storm of...
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Dominic Price v1: Experiment, Feel, Safety, Learning | Work 20XX Ep23
Dominic Price has been a workplace futurist since before it was cool. Atlassian, founded by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar in 2002, has always embraced a uniquely Australian approach. With its roots in Sydney and HQ in Silicon Valley, the company was profitable before being funded,...
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Sophie Wade v1: Transforming, Skills, Change, Truth | Work 20XX Ep22
Sophie Wade has been working, writing, and speaking on the Future of Work before the Future of Work was cool. She's always been a teacher, so after her first career in media, she started the Flexcel Network, helping organizations optimize around outcomes and sustainable work environments,...
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Nellie Hayat: Attention, Original, Generalist | Work 20XX Ep21
Please join me in welcoming Nellie Hayat, Workplace Innovation Lead, Density, and Host of the Beyond Work Conversations Podcast to Work 20XX. What a treat to share the mic with podcast host who has wholeheartedly embraced the good vibes of the workplace ecosystem. And when it comes to positive...
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Nick Bloom: Profitability, Performance, Retention | Work 20XX Ep20
I'm absolutely thrilled to share this conversation with the entertaining, data-centric expert in the field of work from home, Nick Bloom. No one has more of a finger on the pulse of the relevant data in this industry. I welcome Nick Bloom, the William Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford...
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Amina Moreau: Intentionality, Optionality, Mindset | Work 20XX Ep19
It's like Airbnb and WeWork had a baby but with less drama. That's a simple summary of Radious. pro from CEO and Co-Founder Amina Moreau. She moved from film and photography through marketing into co-defining the workplace future. As an Airbnb host during the pandemic with inventory to move and...
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Rob Sadow: Flexible, Policy, Match, Benchmark | Work 20XX Ep18
Often referenced Future Forum Research found that flexibility ranked second only to compensation in determining job satisfaction Rob Sadow, Co-Founder and CEO of Scoop was curious to explore how self-reported importance translated to feet on the street, as measured by headcount growth in…
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Phil Kirschner v1: Real Estate, Futures, Workplace | Work 20XX Ep17
On July 13, The McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) released the 'Empty Spaces and Hybrid Places: The Pandemic's Lasting Impact on Real Estate' - report Sixty-four pages focused on 'superstar' cities in the US, Asia, and Europe, and the long term impacts from Covid on the commercial real estate…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Work 20XXA show focused on the future of work as we navigate transformational times. I'm your host Jeff Frick. We'll talk to the practitioners, with 100,000s of newly empowered employees, looking for a different relationship with their employer. We'll talk to the technology providers, who are responding to these changing demands with new tools leveraging the latest in AI and ML.We'll explore the impacts of the rising tide of gig workers, solopreneurs, consultants, and 1099 services that enable them to cater to a global market. We'll talk to the academics, authors, and thought leaders who are helping us all get a better handle on what's really going on, and what it means to each of us.Our goal is to bring you the human story behind the issues, the context, and the relevance in the spirit of sharing best practices and experiences so we can all contribute to making the future of work better for people, organizations, and our world.
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