Episode Details

Today's episode has three parts (and a half…)

Plus, Eva Rimbau-Gilabert's endorsement of All the World's a Workplace.

1. The Autonomy Paradox
   Pilar comments on an article about how autonomy can stop some employees from recovering emotionally and cognitively during their non-work time. The article, shared by Eva Rimbau-Gilabert is "The autonomy paradox: how more freedom at work can leave you feeling powerless" September 8, 2026

   https://theconversation.com/the-autonomy-paradox-how-more-freedom-at-work-can-leave-you-feeling-powerless-284398
   
   Earlier research:
   https://doi.org/10.13169/workorgalaboglob.10.2.0027. Oscar Pérez-Zapata, Amparo Serrano Pascual, Gloria Álvarez-Hernández, and Cecilia Castaño Collado. "Knowledge Work Intensification and Self-Management: The Autonomy Paradox." Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation 10, no. 2 (2016): 27–49.
   
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   Under New Management: How Leading Organisations Are Upending Business as Usual by David Burkus

2. How Hybrid Workplaces can Lead to Structural Relational Deprivation
   
   Join Pilar as she extracts the learning points from this article on how hybrid places can lead to structural relational deprivation if not designed with (informal) equality in mind.
   
   Structural relational deprivation is when the way work is organised consistently leaves some people with less access to the relationships that provide advice, support, learning and recognition, with consequences for their work or career.
   
   

   2.5 Interlude
   Eva's endorsement of All the World's a Workplace, which summarises one of Pilar's messages in the book very well!
   
   3. Pilar's Pilates Teaching Learnings
   Why Pilar opens all her Pilates classes with the same warm-up to stop unexpected events (like the one's that took place last Saturday) from derailing her at the beginning of her class.