WhyWork Podcast

The WhyWork Podcast is an organisational strategy session and legal dissection of workplace events that are laced with humour. Your bloggers, Alan, Trajce, and Sara, explore the contemporary and uncomfortable realities of work and the boundaries that are tested. Alan and Trajce dismantle case law and Sara pushes all to consider how to redesign the world of work so that business objectives are realised and that people thrive. Good stories are told. The WhyWork team throws shade on some of the stories and the people involved as they consider defensible and remarkable work design strategy. When you listen to the WhyWork Podcast, you realise that no skeleton in the workplace closet is too sacred to unearth. It’s like listening to the water cooler gossip but then shit gets real, and it all becomes serious – fast. This is a must-listen for executive and emerging managers, work design strategists, human factors specialists and ergonomists, work health safety and law specialists, organisational scientists, occupational health academics, and anyone humoured by office and workplace antics! Get ready to exclaim, “She said WHAT...?” and “He DIDN’T! OMG!”. Laugh along with us while you learn lots.

Recent Episodes
  • S08 Trailer 02: Secret handshakes
    Jun 4, 2025 – 00:41
  • S08 Bonus: WhyNOT? A Wisdom Shot: To SWMS or not to SWMS?!
    Jun 4, 2025 – 01:19
  • S08: Trailer 01: Faux Paus and Flummoxes
    Jun 3, 2025 – 01:08
  • S07 E11: From ‘Command & Control’ to ‘Customer Service’ – Beyond ‘hazard salad’ in psychosocial risk management
    Mar 31, 2025 – 21:22
  • S07 E10: That old chestnut –Pets & work from home
    Mar 24, 2025 – 29:24
  • S07 E09: Gilmore versus Blue Care: A hankering for sex
    Mar 17, 2025 – 22:06
  • S07 E08: Bollywood & The Digital Footprint
    Mar 10, 2025 – 33:40
  • S07 E07: AI Ethics: A Beautifully Shambolic Disaster
    Mar 3, 2025 – 28:55
  • S07 E06: Free to air - The blue channels and digging in the trenches
    Feb 24, 2025 – 27:08
  • S07 E05: Tickle versus Giggle for Girls
    Feb 17, 2025 – 23:16
  • S07 E04: Cheap and nasty: The unintended consequences of workplace interventions
    Feb 10, 2025 – 24:16
  • S07 E03: Passionate or polemic?
    Feb 3, 2025 – 29:22
  • S07 E02: Workplace incentives to combat the return-to-office ball-&-chain
    Jan 27, 2025 – 29:39
  • S07 E01: Two Years of WhyWork: Celebrations, Travel, Trivialising Workplace Safety, and Design
    Jan 20, 2025 – 31:32
  • S07 Bonus 05: Mock Podcast: "Diamonds were her best friend... until carats became complaints - Part 3
    May 21, 2025 – 32:32
  • S07 Bonus 04: Mock Podcast: "Diamonds were her best friend... until carats became complaints" - Part 2
    May 12, 2025 – 30:54
  • S07 Bonus 03: Mock Podcast: "Diamonds were her best friend... until carats became complaints - Part 1."
    Apr 29, 2025 – 24:44
  • S07 Trailer 06: Special Release Episode Part 3: Shiny things or shadowy motives?
    Apr 21, 2025 – 01:12
  • S07 Trailer 05: Special Release Episode Part 2: Shiny things or shadowy motives?
    Apr 14, 2025 – 01:34
  • S07 Trailer 04: Special Release Episode Part 1: Shiny things or shadowy motives?
    Apr 7, 2025 – 04:05
  • S07 Bonus 02: WhyM'scal Mash - Beyond the Desk: Uncovering the Wild Realities of Psychosocial Work Exposures
    Jan 13, 2025 – 25:22
  • S07 Bonus 01: Re-Release: Spirit Animals
    Jan 6, 2025 – 16:10
  • S07 Trailer 03: We're back to unpack
    Jan 1, 2025 – 03:14
  • S07 Trailer 02: Reflections before we return to unpack more about workplace realities
    Dec 23, 2024 – 03:06
  • S07 Trailer 01: Botox and Bollywood
    Dec 16, 2024 – 01:00
  • S06 E15: Turbulence on the ground
    Dec 9, 2024 – 18:58
  • S06 E14: From the club to the courtroom
    Dec 2, 2024 – 29:54
  • S06 E13: From underwear to underworld: Criminal ties
    Nov 25, 2024 – 29:50
  • S06 E12: It's going SWM'ingly
    Nov 18, 2024 – 24:07
  • S06 E11: The collective sighs - let's talk about s-X, baby
    Nov 11, 2024 – 31:19
  • S06 E10: Moooo – It’s a stampede!
    Nov 4, 2024 – 24:41
  • S06 E09: IRL? In Real Life? Software solutions and AI in work design
    Oct 28, 2024 – 36:22
  • S06 E08: The sentinel gateway – keeper of the path ahead
    Oct 21, 2024 – 26:39
  • S06 E07: We revisit the right to disconnect
    Oct 14, 2024 – 29:06
  • S06 E06: Scope creep and Snag-arees
    Oct 7, 2024 – 30:16
  • S06 E05: I spy with my little eye
    Sep 30, 2024 – 25:52
  • S06 E04: A bonza boom & crash: Decommissioning with dignity
    Sep 23, 2024 – 31:28
  • S06 E03: Roger rabbit, reconciling responsibilities: Who’s job is it anyway?
    Sep 16, 2024 – 30:02
  • S06 E02: An uppy or a downy
    Sep 9, 2024 – 35:59
  • S06 E01: Special Release - Extended Episode: Good design strategy in mining: Section 22 – ‘Don’t overcook the chook’
    Aug 26, 2024 – 01:07:31
  • S06 Trailer 06: An 'uppy or a downy'
    Sep 17, 2024 – 01:21
  • S06 Trailer 05: Road construction teaser
    Sep 14, 2024 – 01:01
  • S06 Trailer 04: It's all about entertainment
    Sep 11, 2024 – 00:54
  • S06 Trailer 03: Let's talk about moo cows in Wales
    Sep 10, 2024 – 01:17
  • S06 Trailer 02: Swimming upstream, baby
    Sep 8, 2024 – 01:00
  • S06 Trailer 01: Welcome to the system
    Sep 5, 2024 – 01:19
  • S05 E14: You are my HRO
    Aug 5, 2024 – 27:36
  • S05 E13: Wiggle it, just a little bit
    Jul 29, 2024 – 23:46
  • S05 E12: Awww. Stay. Louder! The Big Bang
    Jul 22, 2024 – 29:27
  • S05 E11: German Work
    Jul 15, 2024 – 40:10
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