The past few years we've swung wildly between utopian and dystopian visions.
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The solution is to acknowledge and process the change. To integrate it and come back to something newly coherent. And the way you do that is reflection.
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This Quiet Quitting thing may be the topic du jour, but it's not universal. There are people out there doing engaged, enthusiastic work. There are organizations shining bright and without burning out. If you're sweating it, worried that it's happening with your team, here's our advice.
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We're in the midst of a massive renegotiation of the rules of work. And the central focus of that negotiation isn't back to office plans, or international salary parity, or vaccine mandates. It's power.
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After a year of being burnt out, crispy fried, work from home, but mostly living at work, employers are asking if we're ready to come back. Back to commutes and shitty coffee and incompetent management (working on that last one as fast as we can).
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The short answer is no. The Basecamp stuff isn't some evil genius strategy playing out according to plan.
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When people write the bumper stickers about management versus leadership, this is what they mean. The willingness to make the hard call, to do the unpopular thing, not from a place of taking big swings.
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That we're at the one year mark for the first lockdowns and it feels like everyone is quitting, well, we can't say we're surprised. But it's our full time job to pay attention to this stuff. And what we're hearing from a lot of you is: why now?
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We're asking our brains to do a lot of work right now. We're doing our day jobs, caretaking, feeding ourselves, figuring out voting, trying to keep track of the latest public health guidelines, R (and also k), and waiting for updates from the vaccine trials.
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So on the one hand, you have employees agitating for a more complete view of how their employers' activities impact the world. And on the other you have CEOs hoping that no one will notice those impacts.
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If you don't need to quit during a pandemic, this one isn't for you. The rest of you who are still here, welcome. This is the unofficial guide for how to quit your job during a pandemic.
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