The COVID-19 pandemic has turned many workplaces upside down, with new demands and expectations from companies and employees alike.
Cam and Ewan dive into the changes underway, how some employees are adapting, and discuss some idea about how to survive this tumultuous time in the office. Don't miss it.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has turned many workplaces upside down, with new demands and expectations from companies and employees alike.
Cam and Ewan dive into the changes underway, how some employees are adapting, and discuss some idea about how to survive this tumultuous time in the office. Don't miss it.
Episode #61: Will the Pandemic Affect Paternity Leave?
Talking Shop Podcast
52 minutes 36 seconds
4 years ago
Episode #61: Will the Pandemic Affect Paternity Leave?
It was a busy show this week, with Ewan and Cam discussing everything from Covid vaccinations to Netscape; Christiano Rinaldo to Alexander Hamilton. So let's get started.
Paternity leave is a subject people love to debate. Policies on fathers taking leave to help out at home when a newborn comes along vary widely by jurisdiction -- but it could be just another fact of work life that is changing in a post-pandemic world. Millennials and Gen Zers are pushing for more progressive paternity leave policies and seeing some early victories. Ewan looks at the issue in detail, talks about what works and what doesn't, and why it's suddenly getting so much attention.
Cam talked about a big step taken by one of the most famous venture capital firms in the world, which decided to forego traditional media coverage and simply build their own tech news website. Tensions have been rising between Silicon Valley and the journalists who cover it, so the decision by Andreessen Horowitz to launch their own site, Future, could be a harbinger of things to come for other firms, too. Cam looks at why a16z felt compelled to build the site, and what it means for both in-house PR teams and journalists.
In Check This Out, Ewan debunks the crazy rumor that soccer star Christiano Rinaldo removing a Coke from a table led to a share plunge, while Cam recommends the new movie/musical In The Heights despite its creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda, coming under fire for "colorism" in casing the film. In the Heights was Miranda's first Broadway hit before he wrote Hamilton.
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Talking Shop Podcast
The COVID-19 pandemic has turned many workplaces upside down, with new demands and expectations from companies and employees alike.
Cam and Ewan dive into the changes underway, how some employees are adapting, and discuss some idea about how to survive this tumultuous time in the office. Don't miss it.
