The office vs. everyone else

Today, Explained

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4.4 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Amazon is the latest high-profile company to mandate in-person work five days a week. Today, Explained heads to Miami, where many people are back in the office, to see how they feel about it. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, Andrea Kristinsdottir and Rob Byers, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Citadel Global Headquarters in downtown Miami. Photo by Victoria Chamberlin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yesterday on today explained we were in Portugal where digital nomads are living the dream.
0:05.0	Today we're off to Miami where people are surprisingly not at the beach more than most other big American cities.
0:11.0	They're back at the office if they ever left at all.
0:14.0	How often are you in the office here?
0:16.0	Miami is five days a week in office.
0:19.0	Five. Five?
0:21.0	Yeah.
0:22.0	Four days right now.
0:23.0	Before it was five actually, yeah.
0:25.0	But it seems like the less hybrid you are, the less happy you are.
0:29.0	I like the hybrid.
0:30.0	Well, I'm a mom, you know know and so things happen around the house it's not like I need someone
0:37.4	to be babysitting for me you know if I'm doing my work or not.
0:41.5	Amazon just order its people back to the office.
0:44.0	Apple, J.P. Morgan, Chipotle, Disney,
0:46.0	I B. M. Tesla, and even Zoom have brought people back to companies
0:51.0	want to get back to the pre-pandemic life.
0:53.5	We're going to try and figure out if it'll work on Today Explained.
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