Ray A. Smith

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910 appearances 20 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2018 last heard Nov 2024

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Why the Strong Labor Market Is Weak for Many 20-Somethings · 22 Jul 2024 podcast

And then some others told me, though, that they were being open to other fields or other industries. matched

Maybe they had their heart set on one career with their degree, but they're open to adjacent industries. matched

industries so they're not closing their door to saying i'll never do public relations if they had their dream set on doing something in academia or publishing so some of them are trying to figure out if what the degree is in has some adjacent industries where you never know their career could end up going in a totally different direction and one that they end up liking matched

WSJ Your Money Briefing · How Hybrid Work Schedules Can Result in a ‘Coordination Tax’ · 17 Jun 2024 podcast

A hybrid worker may be going to the office at a different time than their colleagues or their collaborators. voice-verified

If there's a project that needs to be worked on, some people say that it's easier to do when you're in person. voice-verified

Whereas when one person is working from home or working remotely and the other is in an office, it just takes longer to get things done. voice-verified

Yes. voice-verified

There's sort of a happy medium between what employers want and what employees want, that balance of flexibility but some in-person time. voice-verified

A coordination tax is the idea that a hybrid worker may be going to the office at a different time than their colleagues or their collaborators. voice-verified

And so it's hard to literally coordinate being in on the same day in advance. voice-verified

And so sometimes what ends up happening voice-verified

And maybe you've experienced this where you go to the office hoping to see this colleague or that colleague or your work best friend, and it turns out they're not there. voice-verified

And so you end up having to be either on Teams meetings or Zoom calls because the person you had hoped to collaborate with or that would be there to talk to is in on another day than you are. voice-verified

So there's a coordination tax in terms of voice-verified

not just seeing the person, but actually in working with that person. voice-verified

If there's a project, some people say that it's easier to do when you're in person, whereas when one person is working from home or working remotely and the other is in an office, it just takes longer to get things done. voice-verified

One of them is the fact that in some cases people don't have their own permanent desk. voice-verified

So sometimes it's a matter of not knowing whether people are in or where they sit. voice-verified

But the other thing, it's really hard to know unless you have some advanced booking software, just to know if someone is actually in the office. voice-verified

And especially because we're located on different floors or sometimes in different spaces and voice-verified

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