Are you exhausted? Well join the club! But imagine if that exhaustion wasn’t only a by-product of living in our modern times, but a physiological response to a multi-systemic illness that severely curtails your baseline energy levels. In today’s episode, we explore the world of chronic illness, particularly conditions like long-COVID, fibromyalgia, lupus, and ME/CFS, to better understand their impact on people’s capacity to work. 

We discuss the inadequacy of terms like ‘fatigue’ or ‘exhaustion’ to describe the experience of working and living with what one of our guests has termed ‘energy limiting conditions’, and what we think about as the great unnamed energy crisis of our time. We also discuss how organisations can create inclusive workplaces that are welcoming for employees of varying capacities and abilities. 

Host: Dr Peter Ghin

Guests:

Catherine Hale: Head of Consulting, Astrid/Founder, Chronic Illness Inclusion

Dr Jo Ingold: Associate Professor, Management, Deakin University

Ilena: Managing Director, start up

Mentioned:

2023: The state of the future of work 

Astriid

Energy impairment and disability inclusion

How flexible hiring could improve business performance and living standards

The business leaders hiding chronic illness 





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Work Futures Hallmark Research Initiative

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Are you exhausted? Well join the club! But imagine if that exhaustion wasn’t only a by-product of living in our modern times, but a physiological response to a multi-systemic illness that severely curtails your baseline energy levels. In today’s episode, we explore the world of chronic illness, particularly conditions like long-COVID, fibromyalgia, lupus, and ME/CFS, to better understand their impact on people’s capacity to work. 
We discuss the inadequacy of terms like ‘fatigue’ or ‘exhaustion’ to describe the experience of working and living with what one of our guests has termed ‘energy limiting conditions’, and what we think about as the great unnamed energy crisis of our time. We also discuss how organisations can create inclusive workplaces that are welcoming for employees of varying capacities and abilities. 
Host: Dr Peter Ghin
Guests:
Catherine Hale: Head of Consulting, Astrid/Founder, Chronic Illness Inclusion
Dr Jo Ingold: Associate Professor, Management, Deakin University
Ilena: Managing Director, start up
Mentioned:
<a href="https://www.work-futures.org/publications">2023: The state of the future of work </a>
<a href="https://www.astriid.org/">Astriid</a>
<a href="https://chronicillnessinclusion.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/energy-impairment-and-disability-inclusion.pdf">Energy impairment and disability inclusion</a>
<a href="https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/how-flexible-hiring-could-improve-business-performance-and-living-standards">How flexible hiring could improve business performance and living standards</a>
<a href="https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the-business-leaders-hiding-chronic-illness">The business leaders hiding chronic illness </a>
 
<a href="https://pod.link/1689135799">Subscribe to Work.Work.Work.</a>
<a href="http://www.work-futures.org/">Work Futures Hallmark Research Initiative</a>
If you would like to suggest ideas for future episodes or reach out to us, please email <a href="mailto:work-futures@unimelb.edu.au">work-futures@unimelb.edu.au</a>

Hosted by Dr Peter Ghin, Work.Work.Work. expertly guides you through people's lived experience of the modern workplace. We explore the way work is changing, and more importantly, how people are experiencing those changes. And we're not just talking about major technological shifts, but the nitty gritty, day to day stuff that can make our work a labor of love, and sometimes not so much with the love. 

Our research collective represents disciplines as diverse as law, computer sciences, human geography, sociology, indigenous leadership and organization studies. We’re an eclectic bunch, and we hope that our diversity of thinking will bring you a different take on not only what the future of work looks like, but what it feels like to be a worker in an employment landscape that has never felt more filled with possibilities and so terrifyingly dystopian at the same time. 

In our first season, we'll be looking at the legacy effects of the pandemic on the way we work. We’ll be talking to people about how the pandemic changed the way we dressed for work, what the post pandemic landscape looks like for young people, and how COVID-19 and specifically long-COVID has shone a spotlight on a previously overlooked category of workers, that is people living and working with long term health conditions. 

For more information visit https://www.work-futures.org/podcasts

Hosted by Dr Peter Ghin, Work.Work.Work. expertly guides you through people's lived experience of the modern workplace. We explore the way work is changing, and more importantly, how people are experiencing those changes. And we're not just talking about major technological shifts, but the nitty gritty, day to day stuff that can make our work a labor of love, and sometimes not so much with the love. 
Our research collective represents disciplines as diverse as law, computer sciences, human geography, sociology, indigenous leadership and organization studies. We’re an eclectic bunch, and we hope that our diversity of thinking will bring you a different take on not only what the future of work looks like, but what it feels like to be a worker in an employment landscape that has never felt more filled with possibilities and so terrifyingly dystopian at the same time. 
In our first season, we'll be looking at the legacy effects of the pandemic on the way we work. We’ll be talking to people about how the pandemic changed the way we dressed for work, what the post pandemic landscape looks like for young people, and how COVID-19 and specifically long-COVID has shone a spotlight on a previously overlooked category of workers, that is people living and working with long term health conditions. 
For more information visit <a href="https://www.work-futures.org/podcasts">https://www.work-futures.org/podcasts</a>

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