'As We Work': A New WSJ Podcast About Work and Careers Today
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Here's your Money Briefing for Tuesday, March 8th. I'm J.R. Whalen for The Wall Street Journal. Work and our relationship to work have changed a lot in the wake of the pandemic. In this new environment, workers are demanding more flexibility and higher pay. They're reevaluating their preconceptions around things like pay transparency and ambition. And companies are having to change how they operate and do business in order to respond. Well, there's a new podcast from the Wall Street Journal called As We Work. It'll break down all these changes and leave you with some practical tips for how to navigate your own career.
Money is freedom. And so the more that you can have yourself a backstop for these kinds of decisions that so many people are running up against or making right now, it just provides you that freedom.
Coming up, we'll chat with the host of As We Work, Tess Viglant, who not only has covered change in the workplace for years as a journalist, but also experienced it firsthand long before COVID. She joins us after the break.
Tess Vigeland has spent three decades as an award-winning public radio reporter and host, including 11 years covering personal finance at the Business and Economics Show Marketplace. Now Tess is with us. She's the host of a new podcast from the Wall Street Journal about all the ways that work and how we think about it are changing. The show's launching today. It's called As We Work. And we've got Tess here to tell us what we can expect. Tess, thanks for joining me today. So happy to be here, JR. Thanks for having me. So Tess, tell us a bit about you. You've been covering business and personal finance for a long time.
I have. And I mean, that has spanned everything from the aftermath of 9-11 to the financial crisis of 2008, the housing market bust, and then the housing market boom after that. And for a big chunk of that time, I hosted a call-in show about personal finance. And I really loved talking to people and trying to bring them resources, bring them knowledge about, you know, this topic of money, which is A, something that is usually quite awkward for people to talk about, and B, also hard to manage.
What is As We Work and why is the new WSJ podcast launching now?
So basically, my favorite thing is to talk to people, to interview people. And so kind of leading up to what we're talking about on this new show, you know, careers are often difficult to talk about. It can be awkward to talk about your workplace. I feel like a lot of what we covered in personal finance is really informing how I'm seeing as we work our new show in terms of being there to help people and hoping to create a community of people telling their stories about their work and their lives and the role of work in their lives.
But not only have you covered this, you've also experienced it on a personal level. You wrote a book called Leap. Leaving a job with no plan B to find the career and life you really want. But here's the thing. You were onto this idea long before record numbers of people left their jobs in the past two years.
Yes. I like to say I was a quitter before quitting was cool. Yeah, I left my dream job about a decade ago, and I left Marketplace without having anything else lined up. All sorts of reasons for that decision, but suffice it to say, a decade ago, it was crazy town to do something like that. People would look at me like I had two heads. And I think that is certainly not the case now. And with the great resignation, the big quit, whatever you want to call it, it's becoming almost normal.
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