Rachel Feintzeig
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1,709 appearances
29 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2019
last heard Nov 2024
Rachel Feintzeig’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Or it's almost like they do look forward to it, but it's because it's a chance to do heads down focus work and catch up on all the work they didn't do.
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Yeah.
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So either way, they're kind of like still working.
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So I don't know.
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I think companies are trying, but it remains to be seen how effective some of these strategies are.
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I talked to one company, HubSpot, an HR chief there, who told me that she was encouraging people to kind of just lay out what they weren't going to do, like come up with a list of things that people were not going to do by the end of the year, work tasks that they were not going to get to, and kind of put that boundary in place.
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And she told me that they had heard from people that, you know,
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Meeting free Fridays were nice, but what would really matter is reduced expectations, more resources, whether more technology or more people on projects.
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She described it as like the root cause of the problem.
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And I think it was a good point because I think so often companies are kind of trying to stick a bandaid onto a problem that they've created.
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And if you don't have a manager that actually tells you like, no, I want you to take this time off and you don't have to do that project that was supposed to be due on Friday.
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Like that's the only thing that's really going to make a difference.
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Yeah, that's like the whole second piece of this, right?
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Like, so you carve out time, like, what do you fill it with?
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And so what I heard from experts was take it slow.
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You want this to be sustainable.
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I talked to one psychologist who said she has all these people who will try to pull back a little bit on work and they'll end up like training for a marathon.
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It becomes stressful and not sustainable.
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And so you want to pick smaller goals, ease into your hobbies, see what really feels right for you.
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It's kind of trite sounding, but this idea of what part of you has been missing and how can you fulfill that and bring back that piece of your identity.
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