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This month's listening list: Working Hard or Hardly Working?
Podcast: The Digital Workplace
Episode: Work Minus Monotony with Byron Reese (March 2019, 28 min)
AI is coming…to make you better. Byron Reese has been thinking about and observing technology for a long time. He says as long as we keep learning, we never need to worry about losing jobs, especially if you are a plumber. Reese is the author of The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity.
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Podcast: Recode Daily
Episode: The future of work pt 1 (May 2020, 25 min)
Because more people are working from home, employers are increasingly using software that monitors much more than just your hours on the clock.
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Podcast: Curious Minds: Innovation in Life and Work
Episode: Anne Helen Petersen on Workplace Burnout (September 2020, 43 min)
How did we get to a place where life’s become an endless treadmill of work? In her latest book, Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation, Anne Helen Petersen tackles this question. She argues, “You’re taking things that are meant to be leisure, that are meant to be those joyful corners of your life that are not work, and you’re turning them into work.”
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Podcast: Hidden Brain
Episode: Bullshit Jobs (September 2018, 45 min)
Have you ever had a job where you stopped and asked yourself: what am I doing here? If I quit tomorrow, would anyone even notice? In 2013, anthropologist David Graeber wrote an article (and then a book) in which he described these types of positions as “bullshit jobs.” He received a flood of responses from people for whom this label struck a chord — people who felt their work was, essentially, meaningless.
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