One of the most obvious and ongoing effects of the pandemic comes in the office environment. As knowledge workers around the world have gotten used to working remotely, and as the pandemic continues to pose uncertainty for their companies, what the workplace might look like in 2022 and the decade beyond is still in flux.

Ashok Krish, global head of digital workplace at Tata Consultancy Services, joins the Big Tech Ticket to talk about these changes, including what might or might not be here to stay, and the side effects of this changing environment.

• 0:45 minute mark – The inflection point for the office
• 5:30 – Effect on the workweek
• 7:00 – The old and new rituals around work
• 12:00 – How to stay flexible in a changing work world
• 17:30 – Building work community in a hybrid model
• 22:00 – Adjustments to onboard new employees
• 25:00 – The acceleration of our global distributed model and the changing balance of power
• 29:30 – Company winners from this hybrid environment

Healthcare is a sector that has obviously been in the spotlight for the length of this pandemic. As the world has coped with the threat from COVID-19, the sector has been forced to adjust and accelerate its future. Where does that leave us in what we hope is the back stages of the pandemic, and afterwards?

On this summer episode of the Big Tech Ticket, James Rogers interviews Dr. Shantanu Nundy, MD, who among other things is the author of Care After Covid, a book analyzing the problems that emerged from the pandemic and the potential opportunities. He talks about the "three Ds" in the future of healthcare, the importance of connecting data across a wider-spread healthcare delivery model, and the challenges of the digital divide.

• 0:30 minute mark - The acceleration towards remote healthcare
• 2:00 – The three Ds – distributed, digitally enhanced, and decentralized
• 4:00 – The role of technology in the COVID vaccination push
• 6:00 – Connecting all the data as healthcare gets distributed
• 8:00 – Growth areas in healthcare
• 12:00 – How does healthcare address the digital divide?
• 15:00 – Looking back to past healthcare crises for examples of progress
• 17:30 – Working in resourced-strained environments

We've discussed the ongoing challenges the technology sector will face in the months and years to come, in terms of regulation, reputation, competition, and more. Often, our and the wider media's lens is on the U.S. front, and how changes in U.S. federal or state policy might affect U.S. companies, and how they might react.

As this week's guest, Anupam Chander, reminds us, these tech companies are global giants. Which means their company-wide decisions and regulatory context is also global. In today's episode, he talks about that global context for tech companies, the inevitability that internet usage and globalization is going to expand, and how last year's Tik Tok / U.S. government kerfuffle highlights a risk from poorly thought government action.

• 1:00 minute mark – The shape of the legal battlefield ahead for big tech and for new tech firms
• 4:30 – The dot com era parallel for start-up creation
• 6:45 – “Online” as a part of everything
• 8:15 – The irreversible nature of our modern internet dependence
• 10:30 – How the global nature of big tech firms affects their decision making
• 13:30 – The inevitability of increased globalization in services
• 18:00 – Tech hubs of the future
• 21:00 – The effect on consumers and the Tik Tok example
• 25:30 – The Biden administration’s stance, and the key issues that came out with Tik Tok’s saga