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WSJ Your Money Briefing

How to Be Left Alone at Work, Without Being Left Behind

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

3.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Chit-chat and interruptions from your co-workers can slow your progress toward getting your work done. Wall Street Journal “Work & Life” columnist Rachel Feintzeig joins host J.R. Whalen to discuss the risks of asking colleagues to leave you alone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

First, the bad news.

0:01.6

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0:04.7

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0:06.9

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0:08.7

so you can be ready for the next opportunity.

0:10.7

Revolutionary technology, real world results. That's SAP business AI.

0:15.0

Here's your money briefing from Monday October 23rd. I'm J.R. Whelan for the Wall Street Journal.

0:25.8

You can't avoid dealing with your boss and coworkers, but for some, the constant drum beat of

0:30.9

distractions from workmates has driven them to a boiling point.

0:35.0

Things like office politics, gossip, just these things that are kind of simmering under the surface.

0:41.0

This sense that there's more useless meetings, more busy work, and this feeling that I keep hearing from people of like, I just want to do my job.

0:50.0

I wish I had more time to just do my actual job.

0:53.3

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Wall Street.

1:47.8

For many people, they'd get a lot more work done during the day if coworkers would cut

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