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In this episode, Benedict Lelijveld joins us to unpack what it feels like to start a career in an era shaped by COVID disruption, hybrid work, and accelerating AI. We dig into his writing on Mustafa Suleyman and the idea of “pessimism aversion”: holding genuine hope for breakthroughs (from personal AI to advances in biology) while staying clear-eyed about risks like misuse, weak regulation, and who really benefits. Benedict also reflects on what early-career professionals lose when work becomes too remote—and why protecting your voice, curiosity, and craft matters more than ever as automation spreads.

Digital Employee Experience (DEX) is transforming how IT teams support employees, improve productivity, and drive business outcomes. In this video, we explore the evolution of DEX—from traditional reactive IT support to proactive, experience-driven operations that empower both employees and organizations.

Nexthink Intelligence transforms digital employee experience (DEX) for modern enterprises. Learn how IT teams can leverage real-time analytics, proactive insights, and automation to improve user productivity, troubleshoot issues fast, and deliver better workplace tech experiences. Learn more at nexthink.com.

Workspace is the new space for managing DEX inside the Infinity platform. It brings signals, analysis, guided actions, personalized answers, and chat history into one clean and intuitive full-screen experience. Workspace turns everyday questions into insight and action so teams can investigate faster and make better decisions without complexity or technical query languages. Its enhanced reasoning engine is fully NQL certified, delivering accurate explanations and deeper context across every investigation.

By centralizing AI visibility, usage, guidance, and measurement into a single vantage point - AI Drive transforms fragmented AI activity into quantifiable business outcomes.

Spark operates as a highly experienced IT agent, using real-time understanding of the employee’s environment to resolve issues immediately, without tickets or delay.​ Learn more about Spark here: https://nexthink.com/platform/spark

In the first of a new rotating expert series, Scott Pope (Nexthink's Director of Value Advisory) joins to explore DEXOps, productivity, and why DEX has firmly entered the boardroom conversation. We talk about how the market has evolved, what AI is really changing, how to communicate value to senior leaders, and the story behind the DEX Productivity Report. Also: Arsenal. Briefly. And yes, Tom still needs to update the show music. Hang in there.