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The Water Cooler by NearU

The Water Cooler by NearU

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 We've all missed those classic 'water cooler chats' this past year as the world of work moved online. But Zoom doesn't really allow the same kind of casual conversation, and there are only so many people you can talk to within your own office before things get tiring. At NearU, we think our flexible desk spaces are the perfect solution to keeping your work chat fresh - without a centralised main office, people who use our app are free to come and go as they please, working on entirely separate and unique projects of their own. We're bringing the water cooler to you; facilitating chats between entry-level employees and higher ups about everything work, life, and in-between. We want our conversations to inspire you to engineer some of your own 'water cooler' chats, whether you're doing it IRL in one of our workspaces, or just listening to this podcast at home.Get in touch: holly@nearu.ioMusic by Lukrembo.© 2023 The Water Cooler by NearU Economics
Episodes
  • Episode 10: Company culture, mental wellbeing & The Future Kind Collective

    Episode 10: Company culture, mental wellbeing & The Future Kind Collective
    May 31 2022

    In this long (long, long) awaited series finale of the Water Cooler podcast, our host, Holly, returns with an eye-opening conversation featuring co-Founders of The Future Kind Collective, Natalie Pearce and Alicia Grimes.

    Describing themselves as ‘purpose-driven consultants’, The Future Kind help businesses of all sizes enhance and hone their company culture, according to three basic elements - purpose, vision, and mission (or the culture cube as they like to call it).

    In this episode our guests chat more about TFK, as well as the importance of good culture, mental wellbeing at work, and why they prefer Apple to Microsoft (sorry Bill).
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    36 mins
  • Episode 9: Female funding, inclusivity, & having no filter

    Episode 9: Female funding, inclusivity, & having no filter
    Mar 10 2022

    “I wish I had a filter sometimes.”

    That about sums up this episode of our podcast, The Water Cooler, which features some of our favourite guests (who you might recognise from episode 7 all about #techforgood), Nicola Telford of Views For Change, and Charlie Rosier of Babbu. It’s always a great time when these two ladies come on together - and today’s topic is a real corker.
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    30 mins
  • Episode 8: what3words, future of work & a quiz

    Episode 8: what3words, future of work & a quiz
    Jan 21 2022

    For today’s pod, I was joined by NearU’s very own co-founder, James Solomides, and Partnerships lead over at what3words, Paddy Arbuthnott. We talked about all things what3words, the future of work and technology, and I even managed to slip a fun quiz in there too. We always love collaborating with what3words - in fact we even tend to make a habit of it. If you didn’t already catch it, we interviewed their Head of Operations, Tom Boal, over on our blog a few months ago all about our recent partnership. You can find it here: https://nearu.io/article/tech-talks-how-what-3-words-are-putting-flexible-workspaces-on-the-map 
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    30 mins
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