Do you keep asking questions like, “Is it supposed to be this hard?” I wonder the same thing. I wonder if it was this hard for my parents. I wonder how hard it must be for my kids. What is up with the intensity of work in the mid-2020s?
Here's a podcast to turn job pressure into a sustainable way to be at work. But in order to achieve that, our conversation's a little out of pocket.
Every week, on the Mode/Switch Pod you hear this intergenerational team of career coaches and organizational researchers finding ways to convert workplace stress into something more livable and workable.
But this week is different. This week, we’re not talkingabout stress conversion. We’re actually doing it.
So pop in your earbuds, and hit play, as David, Emily, Ken, Josh, Sheila and I sit down to the mics, a big plate of cookies, a small container of fudge, and a conversation that makes some meaning in all the mayhem. You’ll hear us spinning “The Mode/Switch Wheel of Workplace Woe” and chatting up the things that drive us mad on the job.
Why do this? Well, babies laugh about 400 times a day. Adults? About 15 times a day. But as we do this week’s roundtable on email disfunctionality, corporate buzzwords, unstocked supply closets, cringey team-building exercises, not-to-so happy hours, and meetings about meetings, we get in our 400 laughs. (You might find a few, too.)
Our Gen Z participant, Sheila, tells me to say that the Mode/Switch is definitely out of pocket this week. What does that phrase even mean? At least three different things, as our Boomer-Xer-Millennial-Z conversation discovers. But Sheila means it the way the Zs mean it. As you’ll see.
