What Should the Role of Work Be in Our Lives?

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A new survey from productivity firm lattice found that 54 % of respondents are looking to change jobs. For context, four million people quit their jobs in april alone. A lot of he things that we sort of think of as mainstays of jobs to day, for better for worse, they didn't come about by magic. They came about because labor activists fought for them.

The pandemic changed how we think about work. In this repodcast, Vox’s Anna North says it might be time to change how much we work, too.

Today’s show was produced by Will Reid, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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