Why Are We Here? Building a Better Culture at Work with Jennifer Moss

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Quit rates are up, burnout is rampant, and your boss wants you in the office five days a week. But Jennifer Moss says work doesn’t have to be this way. In today’s episode, Jessi Hempel and Jen unpack how we can create a better work culture. Jen is an award-winning journalist, speaker, and workplace culture strategist. She is the author of six books on work and work culture. Her previous book, The Burnout Epidemic, came out in 2022 and her latest title Why Are We Here?: Creating a Work Culture Everyone Wants was released earlier this January. Jen and Jessi discuss: The three qualities at the foundation of a better work culture: hope, purpose, and community How to deal with burnout How to increase cognitive hope by celebrating small wins DEI initiatives and how to foster a sense of belonging at work The future of remote work Return-to-office mandates and employee flexibility and autonomy Start every week with Hello Monday, delivered straight to your inbox! Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter and never miss an episode.

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0:00.0	LinkedIn News
0:02.1	Finding purpose doesn't always have to mean I'm in love with my job.
0:10.3	What it has to mean is I feel like what I do matters.
0:14.9	From LinkedIn News, I'm Jesse Hempel and this is Hello Monday.
0:19.1	It's our show about work on our own terms.
0:24.7	If you are here today, it is because you care about culture, like me, and specifically because
0:30.9	you get that you have agency here. You can do something about the culture in which you find
0:35.8	yourself. That is the message from our guest
0:38.6	today, Jennifer Moss. Jen is an acclaimed journalist. She has written six books on work and work
0:45.3	culture. And in this book, she gets into burnout and culture and so much more. It is called
0:51.8	Why Are We Here? Creating a work culture that everyone wants.
0:57.6	In this conversation, we're going to talk about burnout. And look, folks, this is going to be
1:01.0	real conversation because even in the healthiest cultures, burnout is a thing that happens.
1:06.0	Y'all know I love my job. But right before the holidays this year, I had nothing left for it. The tank was out
1:12.3	of gas. I didn't even want to go in in the mornings. And I'm sure you get this. I'm sure there are
1:17.3	moments where you feel this too. But don't we all aspire to create a culture in which we feel that
1:23.2	less? I mean, that is what I am talking about. And Jen, too. She brings us three foundational elements
1:28.8	to a culture that works. She talks about hope, purpose, and community. And if you can dial each one
1:36.0	of those things in, well then you create a context where you yourself are going to want to
1:40.4	show up and do your best work every day, and so are the people around you.
1:47.2	More on how to do all of that right after this.
1:53.2	The LinkedIn Podcast Network is sponsored by Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA,
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