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Track Changes On Podcast

by Caroline Warnes · English · Business

Musings on the future of work, corporate accountability and burnout from an office escapee who thinks we can and should expect better www.trackchangeson.com

New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 16 min
Latest: 14 Oct 2026
Language: English

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14 Oct 2026 · 18 minNew

When Company Logic Defies Common Sense

Episode summary: Why the Worst Business Decisions All Fail This Simple Test Why do so many companies keep making decisions that seem to defy common sense? Some of the worst business decisions aren’t necessarily made by inexperienced or incompetent people. Often, there’s a perfectly rational explanation for how the company got there. This episode of Track Changes On looks at why business fails and corporate fails can happen even when the individual decisions behind them make sense. We look at the organisational research behind local rationality and goal displacement, and how breaking complex…

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7 Oct 2026 · 15 min
Workplace Gaslighting, Bad Management or Something Else?
Episode summary: How to tell if you're a victim of gaslighting at work Have you ever had something happen at work where the gap between what you remember and what your boss says happened is so big that you start questioning yourself? Gaslighting at work can be difficult to recognise, particularly when the same behaviours can also come from bad managers, dysfunctional systems or a corporate culture that’s toxic. This episode of Track Changes On looks at the research actually says about workplace gaslighting, how to recognise a pattern and why intent may matter less than the impact the…
30 Sep 2026 · 18 min
The Weird Psychology Behind Corporate Meeting Culture
Episode summary: The weird psychology behind corporate meeting culture Corporate culture has a strange relationship with meetings. We complain about having too many of them, joke that they could have been an email and block out hours of our working week to attend them. Yet meetings remain deeply embedded in how companies communicate, make decisions and manage work. So why do companies have so many meetings? There’s some fascinating psychology behind meeting culture. Meetings make work highly visible, can create a sense that progress is being made and can change how responsibility for…
23 Sep 2026 · 20 min
The Problem With Work “Families”
Toxic Workplace Culture: Why “We’re Like a Family Here” Is a Red Flag “We’re like a family here.” It’s a phrase that appears in job ads, interviews and conversations about corporate culture, and for some people it’s an immediate red flag. There are plenty of familiar signs of a toxic work environment, from micromanagement and excessive approval processes to workplace rules built around the assumption that employees can’t be trusted. Yet some of these toxic workplace behaviours point to a broader dynamic that gets far less attention: companies hiring capable adults, giving them significant…
16 Sep 2026 · 18 min
Why Women’s Personalities Become Workplace Feedback
Episode summary: Why are women still told to watch their tone at work? Companies say they want strong female leaders. Yet women are still more likely to receive workplace feedback about their personality, communication style and likeability. The problem is easy to dismiss as a question of behaviour. Sometimes people are rude, aggressive or difficult at work and managers should address it. The more interesting question is why research consistently finds women receiving different kinds of feedback from men, including more criticism focused on personality rather than specific skills or…
10 Sep 2026 · 17 min
The AI Industry Wants You to Be Afraid of Falling Behind
Episode summary: Are we buying AI because we’re afraid not to? AI was initially sold as an extraordinary opportunity. Greater productivity, competitive advantage and new ways of working. Increasingly, however, another message has entered the conversation: adopt AI or risk being left behind. Workers are told their colleagues will have an advantage if they use AI. Companies worry their competitors are moving faster. Women are warned that lower rates of AI adoption could leave them particularly vulnerable as the technology changes the workplace. In this episode of Track Changes On, Caroline…
2 Sep 2026 · 16 min
When Looking Busy Becomes the Job
Episode summary: When looking busy becomes the job Do you ever feel like corporate work is sometimes one big performance? Being visible, staying online, attending meetings and keeping that little Teams dot green can all become evidence that you are working. Some jobs genuinely require presence and activity. But for knowledge workers hired for their expertise, judgement or creative thinking, visible activity can be a poor measure of the value they produce. In this episode of Track Changes On, Caroline Warnes explores the difference between a performance culture and a performative culture, and…
26 Aug 2026 · 16 min
When Did Companies Stop Valuing Our Time?
Episode summary: When did companies stop valuing our time? Time is the one resource we can't replace. Yet at work, we have become remarkably comfortable with the idea that companies can ask for more of it without paying for it. Unpaid overtime, expanding workloads after workforce cuts and increasingly drawn-out recruitment processes all rely on a similar assumption: when the cost of someone's time sits with the individual rather than the company, that time can start to look free. In this episode of Track Changes On, Caroline Warnes explores how becoming a parent and then a business owner…
19 Aug 2026 · 14 min
Are Companies Cutting the Expertise They’ll Need Later?
Episode summary: AI needs specialists. So what happens if we stop creating them? Generative AI is already changing the economics of specialist work. Organisations are looking at where AI can reduce their reliance on writers, designers, developers and other people with deep expertise. In the short term, the productivity argument can make sense. But what happens over the longer term if fewer people can make a living developing specialist skills? In this episode of Track Changes On, Caroline Warnes looks beyond the immediate impact of AI on jobs to ask what happens to human expertise five, ten…
12 Aug 2026 · 12 min
What Happens When AI Makes Everyone a Specialist?
Episode summary: AI, specialists and the empathy gap Generative AI has changed the way we work, but it has not changed work equally. For generalists, AI has opened up new possibilities, making it easier to write, design, analyse and create. For many specialists, the experience has been very different. Their life's work, often developed over decades, has become part of the knowledge that powers these systems. In this episode of Track Changes On , Caroline Warnes explores the empathy gap emerging between specialists and generalists in the age of AI. Drawing on her own journey as a lifelong…
5 Aug 2026 · 16 min
The Case for Empathy in Corporate Leadership
Episode summary: When did workplace empathy become a deadly sin? Empathy has become an unexpected target in leadership circles. A growing number of books and commentators argue that it makes leaders weak, clouds judgement and prevents organisations from making difficult decisions. But what if that argument is based on a misunderstanding of what empathy actually is? In this episode of Track Changes On , Caroline Warnes explores why empathy is not the opposite of decisive leadership, but one of the foundations of good judgement. She examines the growing backlash against empathy, what history…
29 Jul 2026 · 10 min
Why Two Different Truths Can Exist at Work
Episode summary: What's happening to trust at work? Employee engagement has been falling since 2022, yet the latest Edelman Trust Barometer suggests most employees still trust their employer. So how can both be true? In this first episode of Track Changes On , Caroline Warnes explores the difference between institutional trust and the psychological contract, and why employees may be spending more mental energy trying to reconcile the organisation they believe they work for with the one they experience every day. In this episode - Why one Instagram Reel sparked an unexpected conversation…

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Musings on the future of work, corporate accountability and burnout from an office escapee who thinks we can and should expect better www.trackchangeson.com

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Publisher: Caroline Warnes
Language: English
Category: Business
New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 16 min
Latest episode: 14 Oct 2026
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