This season of Better Life Lab, we’ve been taking a close look at work stress and the future of work and wellbeing.
Parts of the American economy are looking tough for many workers — even “dystopian". People are quitting their jobs at record rates.
We know what many of the problems are. Yet the fixes are not so simple. So on this closing episode of our fourth season, we ask: Are bad jobs an inherent part of the workplace — or can we actually do what it takes to make the jobs of the future good jobs, big enough to support real human life for all of us?
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Guests
- Rep. Jim Himes, D-Ct, chair of the
- Zeynep Ton, founder,
- , private equity investor and partner with Two Sigma Impact, who will only invest in companies that provide good jobs
Resources
- , The Metropolitan Group
- , Carol Graham, Brookings, 2021
- , 2019
- , House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth, Nov. 2021
- , New York Times, January 2022