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Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Beyond the Open Office with WeWork’s Liz Burow

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

LinkedIn

Business, Careers

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

How did we get from the large private offices seen in Mad Men to the open desk plans we have today? This episode, WeWork’s VP of workplace strategy Liz Burow gives us a look at the office of the future. Featuring reporting from LinkedIn’s news editor Andrew Murfett.

Transcript

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0:11.2

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0:12.2

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0:24.3

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0:28.4

From the editorial team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemple, and this is Hello Monday, a show where I investigate the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us.

0:41.0

I remember my first office. I had just become a writer at Fortune and the office was the

0:46.7

reward. It had a window that looked out on Rockefeller Center and a glass door that slid

0:52.3

closed and I thought it was a good first step.

0:55.0

I'd grow more senior. In time I'd get a bigger office closer to the editor-in-chief.

1:00.0

Well that first part happened.

1:02.0

I became a senior writer and then I left for another magazine in a more senior role.

1:07.0

But my office, well, fortune is as fancy as I ever got.

1:11.0

My next office was smaller and it didn't have a window.

1:15.0

Then I moved to a cubicle.

1:17.0

By then I did most of my work on a laptop or a phone.

1:20.0

Here at LinkedIn I have a white desk that transforms into a standing desk when I push a button.

1:24.6

I sit between two guys I like a ton, but we don't see each other that much because we are constantly

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