What experiences are young people missing in remote work?
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Many of us learned how to do our jobs and connect with colleagues at our first workplace. But after the pandemic normalized remote work, how are young people today getting that professional coming-of-age experience?
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| 0:30.8 | Imagine you are 22 years old, a newly minted college grad prepared to thrust yourself |
| 0:37.8 | into the exciting next phase of life, the exciting independence and somewhat scary total responsibility of |
| 0:45.2 | becoming a working adult and you're more excited still because you'd spent the |
| 0:51.4 | previous few years pent up in a pandemic. |
| 0:54.0 | So at that point in time a lot of the restrictions had already listed. |
| 0:59.0 | Most people had been vaccinated. |
| 1:01.0 | So I took on this remote role |
| 1:03.4 | because I thought it would give me flexibility |
| 1:05.5 | with exploring different places, |
| 1:08.2 | maybe even attempting some domestic travel. |
| 1:12.2 | So that was really my expectation that sort of flexibility. |
| 1:15.6 | Abby Vidrin is 24 years old now. She works as an Operations Associate |
| 1:21.6 | at Chief, a New York-based startup. |
| 1:24.6 | Abby graduated from college in May of 2022, and you can hear in her voice the excitement |
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