Adam Grant Reimagines Work After COVID

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

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International Relations, Government, Foreign Policy, Gzero World, News Commentary, Trump, News, Global Economy, Geopolitics, Politics, Ian Bremmer

4.6 • 684 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Renowned organizational psychologist Adam Grant joins Ian Bremmer to talk about how the pandemic has upended what we think of as “work” and how we should reimagine the office culture in a post-pandemic world. CEOs, Grant says, seem all too eager to get employees back in their cubicles, but not all of those workers seem willing to come back full time. And what of those in the “essential workers” category who never got to work from home? How should policymakers and corporations rethink their professional experiences?

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0:00.0	We're an outlier on the world stage when it comes to the primacy of work in our lives.
0:05.0	And I think we do it at our own peril.
0:06.6	We're seeing extraordinary levels of burnout in workplaces across the U.S.
0:11.7	Just expecting people to be engaged in the job if they don't have quality of life
0:15.6	feels like something you would have expected maybe half a century ago.
0:19.4	It's about time that our leaders catch up.
0:23.5	Hello and welcome to the GZero World Podcast. That's right. Here you'll find extended versions
0:29.3	of the interviews from my show on public television. I'm Ian Bremmer. And today we're going to talk
0:34.6	about work, how much fun and how it has been forever changed
0:38.4	by the experience of the past 18 months.
0:41.6	Whether you spent the pandemic working from your living room couch, or you didn't have that
0:45.6	option because you were an essential worker or none of the above because your company was
0:50.1	shut down.
0:50.9	Things feel very differently for you today.
0:53.4	And they may be for a long time to come.
0:56.4	What will the new normal mean for society, the economy, politics? I'll ask one of the best
1:01.7	organizational psychologists out there, Adam Grant. Let's get to it.
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