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Is it okay to ask your coworker how much they make? Is Gen Z set up for failure in the workplace? Should you really bring your whole self to work? Each week on Per My Last Email, Morning Brew's resident career experts Kaila and Kyle—whose careers have collectively spanned the corporate, government, nonprofit, and startup sectors—debate the trickiest challenges in work life, and share tactics on how to overcome them.
How to Be Less Online (While Your Job Still Needs You Online)
Per My Last Email
40 minutes
4 days ago
How to Be Less Online (While Your Job Still Needs You Online)
Is it possible for us to start to digitally “detox” while still leveling up at work? In this episode, Kaila and Kyle are joined by Kate Noel (host of the podcast People Person, and Morning Brew’s SVP of People Operations) to talk about how we can start to become less dependent on our screens, while still remaining diligent at our jobs.
00:00 Intro
02:53 Should we even be trying to digitally detox?
06:37 How Kate, as an HR leader, is approaching organizational boundary setting
10:55 How to cultivate a boundary-respecting culture within an organization
15:08 How to help cultivate a boundary-respecting culture as an individual contributor
17:27 A different way to think about “work-life balance”
22:12 Should we be on our phones when we’re not working?
27:15 “You don’t rise to the level of your willpower, you fall to the level of your systems.”
32:49 An important thing to consider if you’re feeling overwhelmed at work
34:12 Final tactics for setting better boundaries at work
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Is it okay to ask your coworker how much they make? Is Gen Z set up for failure in the workplace? Should you really bring your whole self to work? Each week on Per My Last Email, Morning Brew's resident career experts Kaila and Kyle—whose careers have collectively spanned the corporate, government, nonprofit, and startup sectors—debate the trickiest challenges in work life, and share tactics on how to overcome them.
