Overworking remotely

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🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Workers like working from home, but managers worry it’s bad for business. Is remote work yielding poor results, or could the Great Recession be the culprit? Rani’s story: https://www.vox.com/recode/22904758/remote-work-innovation-workload Today’s episode was produced by Jon Ehrens, engineered by — and hosted by Adam Clark Estes. Support Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Looking for ways to use less fuel?
0:02.0	At SO, we can help.
0:03.6	Small changes we can make today can start to help win the energy challenges we all face.
0:08.4	Like your choice of fuel, making the fuel you buy go further,
0:11.8	and even finding alternatives to using it in the first place.
0:15.0	We call this Thoughtful Driving.
0:17.4	The journey won't be easy, but we want to start it with you.
0:20.8	Not what you're expecting to hear from a fuel company.
0:23.6	Well, at SO, we think it's time that changed.
0:26.4	Search SO Thoughtful Driving for changes we can all start to make today.
0:34.0	It's Rico Daily.
0:35.2	I'm Adam Clark Estes.
0:37.8	The United States is about two years into the remote work experiment brought on by the pandemic.
0:43.6	As it turns out, workers like this arrangement.
0:47.4	Their boss is not so much.
0:49.2	A lot of managers and executives want workers back in the office.
0:53.8	Hello, Peter.
0:54.8	What's happening?
0:58.8	I'm going to need you to go ahead and come in tomorrow.
1:02.8	Okay?
1:03.8	We lost some people this week, and we need to sort of play ketchup.
1:10.8	Thanks.
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