{Webinar} What Now/What Next – Future of Work – Episode 3
| We’re entering the COVID-19 pre-release phase and one day closer to restarting our lives. In this newly forming world of tomorrow it’s likely we’re going to have to readjust, rethink and rebuild what we once had and did and for many of us this will mean finding or changing jobs. All of this on a backdrop of generational societal, business and work changes and an imminent ABS announcement that our official April unemployment rate will be 16.2% or 2.2 million Australians unemployed. In this new unknown, uncertain, uneasy world many of us will need to find a job ASAP. Some will change the way they work, whilst others will take the opportunity for a fresh start and go in search of new directions. All of these work journeys will require courage, foresight and future direction. In this week’s webinar, co-hosts David Southwick MP and Morris Miselowski, explore how to find work in a COVID-19 world with one of the world’s leading employment expert’s Andrew Bassat, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of SEEK. Andrew will share with us: insider’s tips on current and future job markets the jobs and industries trending on Seek.com how to job search how to apply for jobs how to prepare for job interviews, and how to remain resilient and determined As always, this lively immensely practical hour will be on Facebook Live as together we discover the jobs and industries that are likely to survive and thrive during and after COVID-19 and provide step by step advice on how to find, apply and secure the job of your post COVID-19 dreams. |
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: By Episode 4, what was clear about the future of work?
That hybrid work was not a temporary accommodation but a permanent new norm for knowledge workers. The experiment had proven that a significant proportion of office work could be done remotely without productivity loss — and that employees, having experienced the alternative, would not accept a full return to pre-COVID arrangements.
Q: What was still genuinely uncertain about the future of work at this point?
The degree of compression in commercial real estate, the long-term productivity implications of fully remote work for early-career employees, and whether the social bonds of in-person work were being depleted or simply changed. These remain live questions.
Q: What did the COVID work experiment reveal about management?
That a significant proportion of traditional management activity was supervision rather than leadership — and that supervision does not survive remote work. The transition forced managers to shift from monitoring presence to measuring outcomes. The organisations where management was already outcome-focused navigated the transition most smoothly.
Q: Can Morris Misel speak about hybrid work, management futures, and the evolving workplace?
Yes. For keynotes on the future of work and organisational design, visit morrismisel.com/event-organisers.
We’re entering the COVID-19 pre-release phase and one day closer to restarting our lives. In this newly forming world of tomorrow it’s likely we’re going to have to readjust, rethink and rebuild what we once had and did and for many of us this will mean findingor changing jobs. A.
The shift around What Now/What Next Future of Work Episode 3 is not purely structural. It changes what capabilities organisations value, how people find meaning in their roles, and what conditions make good work possible. Leaders who understand this early retain the talent they need and build cultures that attract it.
The most important question is not whether What Now/What Next Future of Work Episode 3 will matter, but how quickly it will matter in your specific context. Leaders benefit most from mapping the ripple effects early — not just the direct impact but the second and third-order consequences that arrive later and hit harder. That is the practical work of foresight.
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