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🗓️ 16 February 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, it's Gregory, and we have a show today from our friends over the Ted Radio Hour. |
0:04.4 | It's the first in their series called Work, Play, Rest. |
0:07.6 | This first episode is about people rethinking our beliefs in the workplace, |
0:11.7 | and then doing something to change our workplace culture. |
0:14.8 | We wanted to play this episode because work for many of us is not just a place to make money. |
0:19.6 | Work is also a culture with rules. We have to navigate. |
0:23.4 | And how we feel about things like when to interrupt at meetings, |
0:27.0 | or how to give feedback to colleagues, or what to say when engaging in small talk, |
0:32.2 | it tells us a lot about how we see ourselves. |
0:35.4 | And we live in a time now when workplace culture is shifting. |
0:38.6 | More of us are working from home with colleagues who might be around the world, |
0:42.6 | or demanding different behavior at work, or getting burned out, |
0:46.6 | and sometimes calling it quits. |
0:48.8 | We want to know, how do these shifts in workplace culture look from your corner of the world, |
0:53.2 | or your box in the zoom? |
0:55.2 | What is it that keeps you from being your true self at work, |
0:58.2 | or keeps you feeling like an anthropologist at work? |
1:00.6 | We would love to hear your story. |
1:03.2 | Maybe we'll use it in a future episode. |
1:05.2 | So send us an email at roughtranslation at npr.org |
1:09.2 | or better yet, record a voice memo, |
1:11.2 | and tell us what is one unspoken rule of your workplace that you hate, |
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