The Future of Work As We Know It
Notes from America with Kai Wright
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The Great Resignation. Quiet quitting. These concepts allegedly defined the way we worked last year. Will anything change in 2023?
Journalist Anne Helen Petersen, co-author of Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working From Home and host of the Crooked Media podcast Work Appropriate, has made a name for herself examining Americans’ relationships to work. She joins host Kai Wright to discuss these relationships and how they are shaping our culture, economy and politics. They also take questions from callers about balancing work and life.
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| 0:00.0 | If you didn't have to go into a job or have a job at all, what would you spend |
| 0:06.6 | more of your time doing? Wow, that is actually very conveniently time-to-question |
| 0:10.4 | because I'm currently in between jobs. I'd love to say I do absolutely nothing |
| 0:14.9 | sleep all day, but realistically I'd get back into art, sewing, drawing, |
| 0:20.6 | crocheting. Definitely like taking care of myself, reading and learning about |
| 0:25.6 | like things that I want to learn about. Volunteer work and teaching others about the |
| 0:29.5 | Bible, preaching, not really do the whole traditional holiday season like most |
| 0:34.1 | families do, so traveling would be my answer. I'd just get up and go. Specifically |
| 0:39.6 | Mexico. Family has got some upbringing there and spent some |
| 0:45.0 | there as time as a childhood and it's very cheap to live there and a lot of good |
| 0:49.5 | people. |
| 1:08.6 | It's Notes from America. I'm Kai Wright. Welcome to the show and happy 2023. |
| 1:16.3 | Let me acknowledge first that we are not talking about the absurdist drama that |
| 1:22.0 | unfolded on Capitol Hill over the past week. Suffice to say there is now |
| 1:25.7 | finally a speaker of the house and theoretically at least the new Congress can |
| 1:30.7 | begin its work which is likely to be another absurdist journey for all of us |
| 1:36.0 | over the next couple of years. What we are going to discuss in this show is the |
| 1:40.8 | work the rest of us have to do each day which is maybe something that this |
| 1:44.7 | Congress should be thinking about actually. I often repeat an anecdote about |
| 1:49.2 | covering the 2018 Congressional elections. You'll recall that they were a |
| 1:53.1 | huge deal right like the first elections of the Trump era and there was a |
| 1:57.2 | special election in Pennsylvania in a district just outside of Pittsburgh that |
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