This Monday morning Elle kicks off with some Pale Saints, Minnie Riperton and The Velvet Underground. She's joined by a co-pilot for the second hour of the show, with surprise guest Heidi Simpson! They spoke about the current state of pop music, phone addictions and all the music they have been loving lately.
Recently, the government has announced a push to get public services working back into working in the office, as opposed to current, alternative methods, such as through working-at-home models, and hybrid working models.
This comes as multiple academics from the Victoria University of Wellington are set to release an article in the New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations, discussing the positive findings of a hybrid working model.
Further findings in the past have proven claims that a hybrid working model improves productivity, such as a 2023 study from Human Resources New Zealand, which has shown 40% of HR professionals noted positive productivity gains from a hybrid working model.
I spoke to the Senior Lecturer at the School of Management at the Victoria University of Wellington, and co-author of the article, Stephen Blumenfeld, about the government’s calls to get public services workers back to the office, and the findings from the article.
Last week, Fonterra announced it is returning a total dividend of 55 cents a share for the past financial year, off the back of a $1.1 billion net profit.
In response to Fonterra’s profit announcements, Greenpeace Aotearoa has called out Fonterra for ‘profiting from rainforest destruction’.
Since last week, Greenpeace has also announced the organisation are suing Fonterra, over allegations Fonterra are also misconstruing the claim that their dairy product is 100% New Zealand grass-fed, when findings show that a potential 20% of a cow’s diet could come from palm kernels importanted from rainforests in Southeast Asia.
On 26 September, Wire Producer Sofia spoke to Greenpeace Aotearoa Agriculture Campaigner, Sinéad Deighton-O’Flynn, about this topic, asking her firstly about how concerning the profit announcement was to Greenpeace.
Peter Lineham talks to Matthew about why right now is a great time to light bonfires on That's The Spirit, particularly in Ethopia's capital city where the festival Meskel is currently being celebrated.
For Daylight Saving Sunday, Def Jim presents a bodyclock-soothing (not!) stew & brew of jazz tempos, from the urgent Young Turk jab'n'parry of the New York Contemporary Five via funky grooves from Joey Baron to Dojo-calm meditations from Quest. And that ain't the half of it.
Playlist
Soft Machine - 12/8 Theme (from Facelift France & Holland Disc 2)
Renee Rosnes - For The Moment (from For The Moment)
James Brandon Lewis Quartet - Empirical Perception (from Transfiguration)
Quest - Michiyo (from Natural Selection)
Dave Holland - Gentle Warrior (from Another Land)
Tomas Fujiwara - Gentle Soul (edit; from 7 Poets Trio)
New York Contemporary Five - Sound Barrier (from Consequences)
Joey Baron - Wide Load (from Down Home)
Whit Dickey Quartet - Space Quadrant (from Astral Long Form: Staircase In Space)
Kip Hanrahan - The Red Headed Woman Remains With The Merchant (from A Thousand Nights And A Night: Shadow Nights 1)
Mary Halvorson - Desiderata (from Cloudward)
Wayne Shorter - Oriental Folk Song (from Night Dreamer)
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