Podcast
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Podcast: Fired By Artificial Intelligence
Remember that movie where George Clooney flew around the world firing people so their actual bosses didn’t have to? We were all aghast to learn that companies could outsource such […]
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Podcast: The Efficiency Paradox
In this episode, we reflect on Oliver Burkeman’s recent column, Escaping the Efficiency Trap – And Finding Some Piece of Mind and the paradoxical reality that the relentless pursuit of […]
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Podcast: Take Some Time Off, You Slacker
In this episode, we discuss paid time off. While being paid to not work might seem like a paradoxical idea, we take it a step further and talk about why […]
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Podcast: We’ve Got Cox!
In those heady days between the Covid vaccine roll-out and the Delta variant, a most unexpected paradox began to emerge. After a year of working from home and yearning for […]
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Podcast: Perception, deception, or misconception?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So is your next performance evaluation. Everyone sees the world through their own perceptual lenses and we often form different perceptions of […]
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Podcast: Shady Statistics and the Status Quo
A recent Forbes article titled, “Study shows people working from home are having sex, dating, taking naps and doing hustles on company time” (yes, that’s the actual title) leads us […]
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Podcast: Take This Job and Shove It
It’s April 2021. We’ve spend the past 15 months in a global pandemic. Unemployment rates are staggeringly high. What do you do? If you’re like 4 million Americans, you quit […]
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Podcast: Couch or Cubicle?
With Covid seemingly on the ropes, the world of work is poised to finally return to normal. Not everyone is thrilled about that. Some savor the end of makeshift home […]
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Podcast: Who You Callin’ WUSI?
An employee accuses you of being an abusive boss. Their proof? They THINK you’re an abusive boss. Research has led many states to pass laws intended to protect employees from […]
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Podcast: Show Crap Jobs Some Love
We Americans tend to look down on jobs that perform essential services while heaping praise on any gig that involves an office and a desk. We Americans can’t figure out […]
