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It's Rico Daily. I'm Adam Clark Estus. In this year, we've spent a lot of time

thinking about and talking about work. Remote work, automated work, the future of

work, how the pandemic has changed work, and today with the help of our friends at

Vox Conversations, we're going to try and answer a big question. Do we need a

new conception of work? I'm Sean Elling and I'm your host for Vox Conversations.

It's hard to track all the ways this pandemic has upended normal life, but surely

one of the most significant changes has been how and where and even when we work. You might

call the last year or so a remote work revolution, but that's not quite right. For one thing,

remote work wasn't an option for most of the country because they work in the retail or service

industries, but even for the fortunate people who were able to work from home, what they were doing

wasn't really working from home. It was instead what authors Charlie Wozell and Ann

Helen Peterson call a panicked compromise made under the stress of a national crisis.

And it wasn't great for workers or employers. Everyone was just surviving.

But as we inch our way towards the other side of this pandemic, or at least the closest we'll

ever get to the other side of it, we have an opportunity to rethink our broken relationship to work.

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