What Makes a Good Job, part 2, featuring Zeynep Ton

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In this second installment of our Good Jobs series, Jessi sits down with Zeynep Ton, founder of MIT’s Good Jobs Institute and author of the new research-driven book, The Case for Good Jobs: How Great Companies Bring Dignity, Pay, and Meaning to Everyone's Work. Zeynep argues that a good job should provide sufficient pay to give individuals agency in their personal and professional lives. She dives into the importance of stable schedules and adequate hours, as well as the need for companies to consider the entire system of a good job, not just isolated aspects. She emphasizes the need for businesses to break the cycle of mistrust and invest in their workforce to drive success. This conversation provides valuable insights into what constitutes a good job and how businesses can transform their approach to benefit both employees and the bottom line. Follow Zeynep Ton on LinkedIn, and check out her new book. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir. Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET. Join our new LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners and continue this week’s conversation here: https://lnkd.in/hellomondaygroup

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0:00.0	LinkedIn's Talent Connect Show is the event for talent teams to dive into the most pressing
0:05.5	challenges facing the industry. Join this global broadcast event on October 3rd and 4th.
0:10.9	Register today at LinkedIn TalentConnect.com slash podcast.
0:18.3	LinkedIn News
0:24.2	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jessie Hempel and this is Hello Monday.
0:28.5	It's our show about the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us.
0:36.5	This is the second episode in our special series on what makes a good job.
0:44.0	Last week Bruce Filer made the case that a good job is whatever you say it is
0:49.0	and that's true but we don't want to let businesses off the hook here.
0:53.3	There are a lot of jobs that used to be good, you know, secure while paying reliable
0:59.1	and now just feel a lot less so. That's what the writer's strike is all about in Hollywood.
1:05.9	This week's guest focuses on the basics. When I think about what is a good job, the first thing
1:12.4	that I think about is a good job has to pay enough so that people can have agency in their personal
1:20.3	lives and in their professional lives. That's Zainab Ton. Zainab's a professor at MIT's
1:28.2	Sloan School of Management and she believes that businesses absolutely should treat their
1:32.9	employees very well. In fact, if companies do that, they'll make more money. It's that simple.
1:40.8	But of course, this idea goes against the prevailing view that companies need to cut costs
1:46.5	constantly to keep up their quarterly earnings. Zainab helped found the Good Jobs Institute.
1:53.7	Her new book is The Case for Good Jobs. How great companies bring dignity, pay, and meaning
1:59.5	to everyone's work. In her book, Zainab talks about this big change that happened around the 1970s.
2:07.2	Before that, when productivity increased, so did pay, but then automation became a big thing.
2:14.2	Jobs got sent overseas. Companies became more aggressive with their unions as they tried to bring
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