How to make working from home better

It's Been a Minute

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🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Has working from home during the pandemic been frustrating for you? You're not alone. Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen's new book Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home tackles how remote work can improve, no matter what industry you're in. They talk to Sam about how companies can create sustainable and flexible work environments, the history of workplace culture in the U.S., and how employees can maintain a healthy work-life balance.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, you're listening to It's Been A Minute from NPR.
0:07.3	I'm Sam Sanders and because we're talking about work today on the show, let me share
0:12.2	with you a little fun fact right now.
0:14.5	I'm recording this intro to this episode from underneath a bed spread in a closet and
0:21.0	an Airbnb in San Antonio, Texas.
0:24.6	In the chat you're going to hear next, I take that in a sublet in LA.
0:30.2	As you probably already knew, the whole team at It's Been A Minute, we have all been working
0:35.4	remotely since March 2020.
0:38.8	And you know, what I've realized is that I like it a lot.
0:44.8	I can work in any state I choose.
0:47.3	I can take a lot of my calls while walking the dog.
0:50.7	I've come to accept that I do my best writing in the research right around 7 or 8 PM most
0:55.6	days.
0:56.6	And that's totally fine now.
0:58.8	And my commute, I mean, it no longer exists.
1:02.4	My two guests this episode know this life very well and they've written a book all about
1:07.0	it.
1:08.6	What shalls current work from home setup?
1:11.0	The house that we live in has this like very strange little like quarter attic.
1:15.9	That is Charlie Wazell.
1:17.4	He is a contributing editor at The Atlantic.
1:19.8	I need a ladder to get up there, but it was fashioned by the former residents into this
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