How To Actually Enjoy Working from Home
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Joanna really misses her office. Taking Zoom calls from the kitchen in her dimly lit Brooklyn apartment doesn't compare to her bright, open office filled with friendly coworkers. In this episode of How To!, Ben Waber, an organizational scientist, co-founder of Humanyze, and author of People Analytics, tells us how to use our home office to our advantage. It's easy to spend all day chained to your computer, but Ben says we need to find ways to take breaks and foster human interaction. After all, chats around the water cooler—or virtual coffee dates—actually boost productivity. And if you're Joanna, a midday bath might be where you come up with your best ideas.
What are your toughest challenges during the pandemic? And what have you found is working for you? Leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001. We're collecting your problems and solutions for our recurring Quarantine Q&A.
Slate Plus members get ad-free podcasts and bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence. Sign up now to listen and support our work.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey listeners it's Charles Doohig and I wanted to ask a quick favor before we get into our show. |
| 0:06.3 | As you probably know, lots of media companies are struggling right now and Slate is no exception, unfortunately. |
| 0:12.2 | So if you like what we do here at How2, |
| 0:14.8 | I was hoping you might consider becoming a member |
| 0:16.9 | of Slate Plus. |
| 0:18.4 | Slate Plus is only $35 a year, |
| 0:20.3 | and it allows you to listen to our show |
| 0:22.3 | and all the other great Slate Podcasts ad free. |
| 0:25.0 | And you'll ensure that the news and entertainment and comfort that Slate provides to you |
| 0:30.0 | will still be there in the future after this pandemic finally ends. |
| 0:34.0 | So please consider it and thank you so much. |
| 0:37.0 | Testing, testing, testing, testing, testing. |
| 0:40.0 | Okay, so we're doing an episode about home offices and one thing I wanted to ask you |
| 0:46.8 | about because we both have a homophophist right now, right? |
| 0:49.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.8 | Mine is in my room right now. |
| 0:52.3 | I sit on Zoom calls. |
| 0:54.0 | With your school? Yeah. What would your perfect home office look like? |
| 0:58.0 | Mm. I'd say soundproof walls, so like those spiky pads. You want like somewhere that |
| 1:05.4 | that doesn't have a lot of distractions. I'd have the walls painted black and |
| 1:10.0 | I'd have like a purple velvet sofa. |
| 1:13.7 | That'd be pretty cool. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Peach Fish Projects, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Peach Fish Projects and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.