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🗓️ 1 April 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, future of everything listeners, it's Janet Babin. |
0:03.5 | In the past couple of years, our work lives have changed a lot, and it's not just because of the |
0:10.2 | pandemic. That's why the Wall Street Journal has launched as we work. A new podcast about how |
0:16.3 | the workplace and our relationship to it is evolving. Every week, host Test Viglin will speak |
0:22.7 | with experts, journal reporters, and you about those shifts and how to navigate them. |
0:29.2 | Today, we're sharing one of the first episodes with you. It's about pay transparency, |
0:34.7 | and why it's hard to separate the number on the pay stub from your worth as a worker. |
0:41.5 | If you like what you hear and want to keep listening, you can subscribe to |
0:45.7 | as we work wherever you listen to this podcast. All right, here it is, as we work. Enjoy. |
0:59.8 | Hi, I'm Test Vigland, and as we work, people are talking more about whether to talk about |
1:05.9 | how much money they make. We grew up in a small rural community and you just didn't talk about money. |
1:11.8 | You know, there's a lot of bigger issues than money. You know, it's seen as like the wrong thing |
1:17.2 | to do, or people are very protective of it for some reason, whereas they think like being more |
1:21.2 | transparent. It allows people to sort of go into positions and know where they stand and how |
1:26.3 | much they're valued with the company. I don't know. I'm a little private about that. I don't see |
1:31.2 | anything wrong with being open about what you make. This is as we work from the Wall Street Journal |
1:37.6 | a show about the changing workplace and everything you need to know to navigate it. You just heard |
1:42.5 | from Amon Coleman, a caregiver from Alaska, Linda Cipriano, an executive assistant from New York, |
1:48.5 | Adrian Richberg, a publicist, also from New York, and Eva Allen, a paramedic from Virginia. |
1:54.4 | We talked to them on the streets of New York City. As they told us, talking about pay is controversial. |
2:00.8 | Coming up on the show, the role of the pay stub in our lives. Why we don't talk more about it with |
2:06.4 | our friends and how we see ourselves in those numbers. |
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