Ep 356: Is America’s Workaholism Really Cured?

HerMoney with Jean Chatzky

Jean Chatzky Her Money

Investing, Business

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Post pandemic, many of us have taken a hard look at our jobs and realized that the relationship wasn’t exactly healthy. As a result, we’ve fought for some amazing changes, including higher salaries and greater flexibility. But how do we make those changes last in the midst of layoffs and an upcoming recession? Journalist Helaine takes us through the past, present, and future of work in America, and how we can keep pushing for workers’ rights. In Mailbag, we tackle questions on thrifty wedding planning and what to do after checking all the financial “boxes.” In Thrive, the best budgeting tips for your 20s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an AirWave Media Podcast.
0:04.0	We have essentially taken a political problem and made it a personal problem.
0:11.4	Which is that we still do not provide mandatory paid family leave.
0:17.4	We still as a society do not provide childcare in any meaningful fashion.
0:22.9	We still as a society do not provide help with elder care in any meaningful fashion.
0:28.2	We also as a society we expect this version to be on women.
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0:53.2	Hey everybody I'm Jean Chatsky.
0:55.2	Thank you so much for joining me here today on her money.
0:59.2	Our relationships, not with the people in our lives, but with our jobs.
1:04.2	They have changed so much over the past few years before the pandemic.
1:09.2	Wow, you would see news headlines everywhere about hustle culture.
1:13.2	And it seemed everyone had a side gig or was grinding away for their next promotion.
1:18.2	Post 2020, many people realized that their relationships with work were not so healthy.
1:24.2	An American work culture changed dramatically.
1:28.2	Suddenly it seemed like we were all talking about work life balance and burnout
1:33.2	and the importance of mental health in the workplace by the way about time on that.
1:38.2	The great resignation came about in part because people were no longer afraid to demand
1:45.2	the salaries and the benefits that they deserved.
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