Charlie Warzel discusses the takeaways from work-life balance that have come out of Covid working arrangements, and what the future of corporate HQ might look like.
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Charlie Warzel discusses the takeaways from work-life balance that have come out of Covid working arrangements, and what the future of corporate HQ might look like.
Read moreVox reporter Dylan Matthews discusses the work of the Happier Life Institute, which found that access to psychotherapy should be central to foreign aid and charity work abroad in order to increase well-being.
Read moreBloomberg Businessweek columnist Claire Suddath explains why daycare centers struggle with staffing and profit margins, and why, despite the demand, the industry is struggling to survive.
Read moreJ. B. MacKinnon joins us to talk about the push-pull between the supposed economic harm of less shopping with the environmental impacts of buying too much.
Read moreKathryn Jezer-Morton, author of the “Mothers Under the Influence” Substack, joins us to talk about the moms of TikTok, Instagram and other social media platforms who have turned their lives into profitable enterprises.
Read moreMcKay Coppins, a staff writer at The Atlantic, joins us to talk about a hedge fund that is buying up newspapers across the country and dismantling them at an alarming rate.
Read moreJournalist Ray Suarez joins us to talk about everyday Americans who have lost jobs and homes – and about the degree to which the economy is working for different sectors of the population.
Read moreBill Burnett, executive director of the Design Program at Stanford, joins us to discuss ways to access creativity and personal growth even as the workplace is radically changing.
Read moreStephen Ives joins us to tell the story of William Randolph Hearst – the subject of a new American Experience documentary.
Read moreEyal Press joins us to talk about everyone from drone pilots to workers on slaughterhouse floors and how we’re all complicit in jobs we wouldn’t want to hold ourselves.
Read moreType Media Center reporting fellow Sarah Jaffe joins us to talk about how Covid lockdowns made it clear how much Americans rely on care workers – and how little we value them monetarily.
Read moreAmanda Mull, staff writer for The Atlantic, joins us to talk about the flight attendants, grocery store clerks, gig workers and others on the frontlines of a rapidly declining atmosphere of civility, and what’s happening to customer service.
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