Christine Armstrong

Is the death of hybrid greatly exaggerated? On the vlog today our research into what does work. linkedin.com/posts/thechris…

@Neal_Compass FINE. I’ll read you instead of talking to you!

Full article here newstatesman.com/politics/2025/…

Hyperfactionalism is stopping good government and killing @UKLabour New article in @NewStatesman

@2Razzer95 @SW_Help On move now…

@SW_Help @CArmstrongLDN Trains are showing at Waterloo but nothing moving!

@SW_Help @2Razzer95 More info?

@2Razzer95 Hi, unfortunately emergency services are dealing with an incident near the railway so the station has been evacuated. ^RC

It’s nearly useless to take advice from billionaires, both literal and figurative. Even if the advice is interesting. The problems, challenges & pitfalls that threaten someone in the top 0.001% of their field (business, athletics, acting, storytelling, etc) are so utterly exotic and irrelevant that you might as well be asking King Charles for advice on how to renovate a bathroom on a budget. Instead, find people who’ve accomplished what you aspire to achieve - starting from the same place you are currently - in the next two years, five years or maybe ten years (at the most) 2-5 years is the best range IMO. Listen to people who’ve actually had your problems, and how they overcame them. Don’t just follow the advice verbatim - it has to be adapted to your natural tendencies and situational reality - but at least it will be relevant and actionable. It doesn’t matter what Elon Musk thinks about entrepreneurship, or what Tom Cruise thinks about filmmaking, or what Khabib thinks about MMA, or what Joe Rogan thinks about podcasts… They’re each coming from a completely different set of realities than what you face, today. And if you try to solve $100K level problems with $100M level solutions, so to speak, it’s easy to get way over your skis in complexity & bloat - and failure is practically assured. Maybe a better analogy is if you’re 300 lbs and trying to get in shape, trying to go through a Navy SEAL bootcamp is likely going to end in cardiac arrest. Find a mountain you can actually climb.

@PendulumSummit 2025 was truly epic! Loved my role as MC 🎤 Here’s the roundup… @antmiddleton 👊@SugarRayLeonard 🥊@AndreAgassi 🎾 @jimmycarr 🤣 @maryportas 🛍️@CArmstrongLDN were my favourites!

What a real treat to have the ultra-dynamic @CArmstrongLDN with a bit of razzmatazz in sequins to captivate @TheCCD auditorium with her talk on the Future of Work... #PendulumSummit

What a quick fire data ssession with @CArmstrongLDN ! 10% of Irish workers are fully engaged! 43% of employees would rather get divorced then return to the office ! @PendulumSummit #pendulumsummit

@chris_rempel Lmk if you stumble over it again, it’s a corker!

@CArmstrongLDN Trying to find the exact source, think it was in some macro report But The Guardian does a decent overview here: amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

Canada's fertility rate just hit another all time low of 1.26, and my province (BC) came in at an appalling 1.00, the lowest in Canada. For context, to avoid population decline, the FR needs to be 2.2+ While there are many reasons for this, and it's a complex issue, it's not exactly shocking that Canada's least affordable province is also its least reproductive. The bottom line is that when policymakers endlessly prop up a stratospheric housing bubble - largely to the benefit of older demographics - they are creating a world where only the most accomplished (or more accurately, most privileged) youth have the luxury of forming a household and building a family. But I think they're also playing with fire, wittingly or otherwise. When you game the economy in such a way that young Canadians can never actually win on merit - they can only grind out basic survival by themselves, or get help from their privileged parents (if they have any) - you create the conditions for societal decay. As a result, BC has become a de facto aristocracy. You're either born into the owner class, or the wage-earner class. There is no way to cross the chasm. It's the owner class that gets to form households, grow a family, have leisure activities, buy assets, and grow wealth. Wage-earners will have to share rented properties with other earners. Few will have children, because they won't be able to have housing security. And the smart ones will simply leave. This hollowing out has been occurring for some time now, and the pandemic only accelerated it into overdrive. This is why BC has one of the lowest fertility rates on planet Earth, let alone in Canada. While your average shortsighted realtor or delusional Boomer is incapable of understanding that this is cyclical, and can't last forever, they can be forgiven for holding that view based on how long BC's (and Canada's) respective governments have insisted in maintaining this status quo, at the expense of its young, and at the expense of real productivity. But if we look around the world, we see countries that have long since had their housing bubbles burst - with immense social ramifications for letting them run up in the first place. Two examples come to mind, that being Japan - whose nominal housing prices have only JUST recovered since the implosion of their bubble in 1990... and also Spain, whose bubble burst in 2008, and has not yet recovered. Japan's population has since aged to the point where there are 4 adult diapers sold for every 1 infant diaper. Once thriving communities around the country are now abandoned ghost towns where houses are literally sold for ~$10K USD, or even $0 in some cases. Spain similarly still reels from the impacts of its prior excesses, seeing unemployment rise to nearly 30%(!) in the years following its RE collapse. Even now, its UE is still ~12%, which is well into severe recession territory by Canadian standards. Some version of this is undoubtedly Canada's future, unless we are humble enough to recognize this, and bold enough to do what's necessary to avoid the worst case scenario. Even so, it may be too late by this point. If we don't give our young people a future - a game they can actually win - we will secure an outcome where nobody has a future. This isn't speculation, it's grade 3 math.

The mere mention of the word "restructuring" is enough to shake up corporate souls. Here 👇 is a an interesting conversation between @andrewtghill, @CArmstrongLDN and @IsabelBerwick on this topic.

How to survive corporate restructuring - “a fundamental shaking of people’s identity” - @CArmstrongLDN and I had fun talking about this serious topic to @IsabelBerwick for the latest edition of the FT’s Working It shows.acast.com/working-it/epi…

To reinforce that layoff programmes are short-term and ignore longer term costs, new research published in @HarvardBiz by @didierelzinga & Amy Lavoie shows the hit to employee engagement among those people remaining takes years to recover, with a direct link to performance.

Most restructuring and employee layoffs are done for short-term or bad reasons or they are badly handled. @CArmstrongLDN @andrewtghill on the @FT Working It Podcast talking (un)common sense on how to manage layoffs better and avoid the worst errors. ft.com/content/b06b72…

"There's no single worse thing you can say to someone who is burnt out than 'Why don't you go for a walk?'" Myself and Christine Armstrong talked about an inspirationally candid LinkedIn post about burn out - and what any of us can do to beat it. linkedin.com/posts/brucedai…

@brucedaisley Great to chat about the link between high salaries & RTO, the Amazon ripple (riptide?) and the impact of cleaning your own bathroom!

Uma Thurman was married to Jackson Lamb

@IABUK @GoodLoopAmy @GoodLoopHQ @aflorithmic I’ve never written a blog in my life!

✨#IABEngage is back & the joy of digital is in the air✨ Speakers announced incl. @WeTransfer @GoodLoopHQ @emc_uk @bauermedia & more. Head to our site for the agenda so far & to book now 👀 ps. IAB advertisers & agencies book free 🙌 iabuk.com/events-trainin…

A project I worked on had Fix It Fridays, where the digital team were encouraged to, one Friday a month, take time out to fix a process that wasn’t working, or spend a day working at the frontline to understand how stuff actually worked. Got SO many good ideas from it.

@HRTechUK Erm, where is mine?!! 🤪

We've been blown away by the responses so far from everyone who was at the show last week – we're so glad everyone had such a great time! Check out these photos from the event if you're curious to see what went on. #HRTechUK #HR

@sharonthomas1 @NationalTheatre See also all newspaper subscriptions

It takes a lot to get me off the sofa at night, but last night’s catalyst was the ⁦@NationalTheatre⁩ #Nye. I’ve never known a time without the NHS. This play was thought-provoking & a reminder to believe in yourself and your vision even when others don’t. #Fearlesswriting