Digital by Default

As suspected Week 09 ended up being it for me at UKHSA. I could have wrung a couple of extra days out of this week but it just didn’t seem like the right thing to do so I have had a down week as I psych myself up for my trip. As such not a…

This was a topsy turvy week but work wise it ended well today so I think I’ll just focus on that. For the first time in 25 months I went to an office and worked alongside actual flesh and blood humans. I’d been asked to facilitate a ‘whole life’ retrospective for one of the teams/programmes…

I haven’t been working for UKHSA this week – I decided to step away fully for a few days as lurking on the work Windows laptop everyday waiting for something to happen where I could genuinely contribute was spinning me out a bit.  The timing was pretty good – I had a first interview for…

Even for a short week this has been especially quiet and empty of activity. My role really feels surplus to requirements in the current circumstances so I have essentially stood down apart from a few 1-2-1s and helping gather job leads to ensure everybody leaving lands well. There is a scenario where later in this…

Well the circumstances that caused my short and downbeat note last week have now leaked all over The Guardian. I don’t have much to add other than that this kind of disruption is rarely evenly distributed across an organisation and I’d suggest that this article underplays things for the corner in which I am operating.…