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🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Checking in on the so-called Great Resignation. On this week’s On The Media, hear why the trend is a logical response to the cult of work. Plus, when technology makes our jobs harder, maybe being a 'luddite' isn't such a bad thing.

1. Sarah Jaffe [@sarahljaffe], journalist and author of Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone, on how love and meaning became intertwined with our jobs. Listen.

2. Anne Helen-Peterson [@annehelen], writer and journalist, and Charlie Warzel [@cwarzel], contributing writer at The Atlantic, on how technology is—or, dramatically is not — making life easier at work. Listen.

3. Gavin Mueller [@gavinmuellerphd], assistant professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, on what modern lessons can be learned from the Luddite workers of 19th century England. Listen.

Music from this week's show:

Sign and Sigil by John ZornBROKE by Modest MouseMiddlesex Times by Michael AndrewsBlues by La Dolce vita Dei NobiliLiquid Spear Waltz by Michael AndrewsStolen Moments by Ahmed Jamal Trio

Transcript

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0:00.0	This week and every week on the media is a labor of love, but this week it's also a
0:09.5	lot better to labor.
0:11.7	The great resignation is still here, reproduced it will still be here through the summer.
0:15.9	The office historically it's been very good in convincing you that your life is actually
0:21.2	the time that you spend in that office.
0:23.4	So what happens when that ceases to be the case?
0:25.7	They've laid you off six months after they've told you that you've joined the family,
0:28.7	and it's like your family doesn't have mass layoffs once a year.
0:31.3	Were you evaluate Aunt Susan and decide like, oh, Aunt Susan's fired?
0:34.8	I think what we have to do is listen to the complaints that people have to the struggles
0:39.6	they're facing and think about reshaping work along those lines rather than just assuming
0:44.8	technology is just going to solve the question for us.
0:48.6	The great resignation.
0:50.2	The office gets a makeover and sabotage at the plant on this week's on the media from
0:55.7	WNYC.
1:01.4	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:04.7	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:06.4	In this month's jobs report, one morsel of data did stick out.
1:11.4	The country's active workforce is back to within 1% of what it was in February 2020,
1:17.8	free pandemic.
1:19.3	But if that's true, what happened to this?
1:22.3	It's being called the great resignation, a record number of Americans are telling their
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