What partisan divides are doing to our workplaces
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🗓️ 23 September 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Would it surprise you to learn that a quarter of Americans say that they’ve avoided a work colleague due to differing political views? Today, as part of our Office Politics series, we’re joined by Sean Westwood, director of Dartmouth’s Polarization Research Lab, to do the numbers on polarization’s impact on the workplace. Then, Congressional negotiators reached a bipartisan deal over the weekend to avoid a government shutdown in a week.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive |
| 0:03.4 | It's a podcast from Marketplace. In 1986, before I was a journalist, I was flying for the Navy. |
| 0:09.6 | Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. |
| 0:14.4 | It was the cold war and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers. |
| 0:18.6 | Today though, there's another threat out there, climate change. |
| 0:22.6 | This could be the warmest year on record. |
| 0:24.6 | Climate change is here. |
| 0:25.7 | Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth. |
| 0:29.5 | And while the threat seems new, the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s. |
| 0:35.9 | I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change. |
| 0:44.7 | This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis |
| 0:47.5 | to see how the military is preparing for the threat. |
| 0:51.0 | Listen to how we survive, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:56.6 | In the run-up to the election, we're looking at political polarization in America, in particular |
| 1:01.7 | how companies intensify or ease political divides by taking sides, |
| 1:06.4 | taking stands, and are bringing us together by promoting constructive dialogue. |
| 1:12.2 | I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles. |
| 1:14.3 | Today, in our series Office Politics, |
| 1:17.2 | what data from scientific surveys tell us |
| 1:20.2 | about what partisan divides are doing to workplaces. |
| 1:23.5 | The Polarization Research Lab out of Dartmouth College regularly checks the Polarization |
| 1:28.2 | temperature on the job. |
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