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Jacques Peretti learns how we went from clocking on and off to checking our work email at all hours. How did work go from being what we do to who we are?

How did we go from clocking on and off to checking our work email in the middle of the night and working four jobs simultaneously? How did work go from being what we do to who we are?

From the creation of shared values in the workplace in the 1980s to the deal that ushered in inflated executive pay and zero job security, Jacques reveals how key decisions over the past decades have revolutionised the workplace and our perception of work itself. He also looks at automation in the workplace. But will the age of the robot make our working lives easier or make us redundant as a species?

59 minutes

Last on

Mon 15 Oct 2018 01:15

Music Played

  • Chromatics

    Tick of The Tock

  • Jungle

    Busy Earnin'

  • Kavinsky

    Nightcall

  • Sigur RΓ³s

    Ba Ba

  • The xx

    Chained

  • George Michael

    Star People '97

  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Thieving Magpie

  • Hot Chip

    Huarache Lights

  • Don Williams

    I Recall a Gypsy Woman

  • Death in Vegas

    All That Glitters

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Jacques Peretti
Executive Producer Ceri Aston
Executive Producer Emma Cooper
Director Will Yearsley
Director Stuart Bernard
Director Edmund Moriarty
Production Company Pulse Films

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