TBD | So, What Happens to WFH Now?
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
For many white-collar workers, the full-time work from home era is coming to an end. Some are going back into offices five days a week. Many others will be expected to split the week between home and the office.
As the new rules are laid down, office workers are asking themselves: do we want work to go back to the way it was? Or is it time, finally, to try something different?
Guest: Brigid Schulte, director of the Better Life Lab at New America
Host
Henry Grabar
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, quick note, today's show has a curse word. |
| 0:04.3 | All right, here's the show. |
| 0:12.5 | All right, here I am. I'm outside the office. |
| 0:15.4 | Today is Slate's first official day back at work. |
| 0:19.1 | I'm not really sure if I should be wearing a mask or not as I walk into this office building. |
| 0:24.6 | Alright, let's do it. |
| 0:31.6 | Wow. |
| 0:35.6 | First thing I notice is the air conditioning. It's like 45 degrees in here. |
| 0:40.3 | And completely empty. |
| 0:43.3 | Hey, I'm Henry Grabar, in for Lizzie O'Leary. |
| 0:46.3 | I come to you with a recording from a place that has been virtually off-limits for nearly 18 months, an American corporate office building. Specifically, |
| 0:56.3 | Slate's office in downtown Brooklyn, which has been closed to us since March 2020. Lots of people |
| 1:02.5 | have joined the company since, and they don't know the first thing about this place. |
| 1:07.4 | Your ID should work on three doors, so it would be this door. That's Amanda. |
| 1:11.6 | She's giving a tour that I dropped in on. |
| 1:13.6 | There were a few hiccups. |
| 1:15.6 | The scanner doesn't work. |
| 1:17.6 | The dishwasher doesn't work. |
| 1:19.6 | Neither does the coffee maker. |
| 1:21.6 | And metaphor alert, the literal water cooler is broken. |
| 1:25.6 | I had a guy coming in and look at the filter and he was just like, no one should be drinking this. |
| 1:32.3 | Like no one. |
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