Slate Money - Quiet Quitting
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🗓️ 3 September 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the reasons behind the current labor shortage, the concept of “quiet quitting”, and the proposed fast-food labor council in California.
In the Plus segment: Stacy-Marie Ishmael returns to talk about Michael Saylor’s alleged tax evasion.
Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Quiet Quitting episode of Sleaked Money. |
| 0:18.0 | Your guide to the business and finance news of the week I'm Felix Salmon of Axios and |
| 0:23.0 | frankly I'm just phoning this one in this week Emily, how are you? |
| 0:26.5 | This is Emily back of Axios. |
| 0:29.4 | Hello, I've been preparing all week for this, not like Felix. |
| 0:33.6 | Elizabeth Spires, how are you approaching your money duties? |
| 0:38.3 | Should you be quiet fired? |
| 0:40.2 | I should probably be quiet fired. |
| 0:43.6 | We're going to talk about quiet quitting. |
| 0:44.9 | We're going to do a Labor Day episode of Sleaked Money this week. |
| 0:49.1 | We're going to talk about the big problems in the Labor Force, how basically there aren't |
| 0:53.0 | enough people to do all of the jobs available and what the reasons for that are. |
| 0:56.8 | We're going to talk about quiet quitting. |
| 0:58.0 | We're going to talk about fast food workers in California and whether California is turning |
| 1:02.7 | German. |
| 1:03.7 | I have to say this is a really good week to become a Sleaked Plus member because we have |
| 1:09.3 | Stacey Marie Ishmael back on the show to answer questions about Michael Salah in Sleaked |
| 1:14.7 | Plus. |
| 1:15.7 | All of that is coming up on Sleaked Money. |
| 1:20.4 | Let's start with the big picture of the labor market which is expanding according to |
| 1:27.5 | the latest jobs report but really still not nearly big enough to account for the sheer |
| 1:36.3 | number of jobs available and this is Labor Day. |
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