Workplace

But have you ever really thought about why you work? Is it just a way to earn money and pay the bills or maybe a way to achieve some sense of self-fulfillment? Well, whether you're pounding the pavement making sales calls or inspiring young minds in a classroom or plowing the family farm, no matter what job you have, your work can have eternal significance.

Consider that today in John's study titled Wisdom for the Workplace.

And now here's the lesson.

We live in a culture, frankly, that has a very skewed work ethic.

You're listening to Grace to You, the Bible teaching ministry of John MacArthur.

John's current series is helping you see how your job fits into God's kingdom purposes.

It's called Wisdom for the Workplace.

Friend, thinking about what John said today about the Christian work ethic, a while back we asked John whose work ethic made the biggest impact on him and why.

So are the likes of Amazon, Disney and John Lewis right? Or is collaboration sometimes just a convenient excuse for managers to get their people back in a building? I've read the research, and I've got a verdict.

And in the world-famous weekly workplace surgery, one listener tells about a former manager who made their life hell.

I got so excited when I read this one.

I know.

Now, in a remarkable twist of fate, that manager has joined their new team as a direct report.

So should they rise above it and stay professional, or is it finally time for that sweet, sweet, sweet revenge?

This is Truth, Lies and Work, the award-winning podcast where behavioral science meets workplace culture, brought to you, of course, by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals.

My name's Al, I'm a business owner, and I'm here to ask the questions you might be afraid to.

RussianPod101.com vocabulary builder.

Workplace.

Рабочее место.

All vocab follows a translation.

First, listen to the native speaker.

workplace.

Again, the word is workplace.

Shokuba.

Shokuba.

Shokuba.

Shokuba.

The very last word for today is coworker.

Again, the word is coworker.

There are two things that happened.

One was I watched Simon Sinek's Millennials in the Workplace, which is just such an amazing video.

And I love the way that he was... observing millennials, having a little bit of a dig at them, but also at the same time saying, but it's not your fault.

It was the circumstances in which you grew up.

And that, by the way, was a podcast guest, Claudette Dawson, who gave me that wonderful, wonderful tip.

So I try not to be judgmental.

I try to be more an observer of what's going on, because I think if you're an observer and you see things, and I think that's what Simon Sinek did brilliantly in that Millennials in the Workplace.

He was observing what was happening without making a judgment call.

Firstly, Claire Ducatade, who is the Managing Director of APAC for Gallup.

and has spent decades researching what drives workplace performance and engagement.

We'll be unpacking some of the stats from the State of the Global Workplace Report from Gallup, and Kylie Green, who is the Managing Director of Reward Gateway Eden Red, who likewise has spent decades in the space dedicating a lot of time energy and commitment to helping make the world a better place to work and we'll be unpacking some of Kylie and team's insights from the Workplace Engagement Index Report 2026.

A big welcome.

That's what we study at Gallup is the work-life experience and how to make work a place where people can use their strengths to make contributions, they can have social connection, purpose.

Not what you would see when you look in the dictionary, work being toil, drudgery, labour exertion.

So we're trying to make Aussies' lives better through great workplaces.

And Kylie, what brings you to the conversation? We have a similar mission.