This is brave new work, a podcast about re inventing our organizations and the search for a more adaptive and human way of working. We are also joined to day by rainsford stoffer, a journalist who's written for outlets like tin voge, the new york times, vax, the atlantic. And the author of a new an ordinary age,. Brainsford, welcome to the show. Absolutely on to day's episode, we're going to talk about the next generation of workers and how they're feeling about the future of work. But before we unpack that, let's check it. Let's check in.
The workforce is changing. Millennials are turning into elder millennials and Zoomers are turning into employed adults, thus shifting the makeup of the modern working population—and its values. Long gone are any romantic or bootstrappy notions of “paying your dues,” which, in many work environments, is just shorthand for dealing with toxicity and subpar pay; there are fewer people receiving chintzy gifts for 35-year anniversaries at the same company.
In this episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans speak with journalist Rainesford Stauffer, author of the new book "An Ordinary Age," about the exceptionalism bubble; how work crises have ballooned into identity crises; the mythology of the “dream job”; and how young adults are already shaping—and challenging—the future of work.
Learn more about Rainesford's work and buy her book here: https://rainesford.medium.com/
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