Crisis Conversations — Live From Better Life Lab (Session XII)
Channel: New America
Date: 12/06/2020

The coronavirus pandemic is disrupting virtually everything about the way we work, live, connect with one another and expect from our government, businesses, communities and each other. And it’s exposing the deep cracks and inequities in American society. We can’t go back. So what will it take to create a fairer future of work and family? That’s what the Better Life Lab explores every week. Join us on Zoom to share stories, make sense of what’s so rapidly unfolding, and imagine together a better new normal.

Join us on Friday, June 12 at 1 pm Eastern time, for a 30-minute interactive conversation on going back to work. As states lift shelter in place orders, some office-based firms are allowing remote work to continue, in some cases permanently, staggering schedules, limiting the number of people in the office and elevators and shutting off communal spaces. Restaurant workers, hair stylists and other “non-essential” workers may be eager for work, but face uncertainty about safety. And how can we justify continuing to pay “essential” workers a pittance? And who has childcare? We’ll talk about how the pandemic is reshaping the way we work, and what will it mean for the future.

Host:

Brigid Schulte
Director, Better Life Lab at New America

Guests:

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Author of Shorter: Work Better, Smarter and Less – Here’s How, and Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

Manar Morales
President & CEO of the Diversity and Flexibility Alliance

Richard Gegick
Restaurant worker in Pittsburgh and member of the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC)

Kendra Goodenough
Microsoft investor relations

====================================

We are dedicated to renewing the promise of America by continuing the quest to realize our nation's highest ideals, honestly confronting the challenges caused by rapid technological and social change, and seizing the opportunities those changes create.

Subscribe to our channel for new videos on a wide range of policy issues: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=newamericafoundation

Subscribe to The New America Weekly and other newsletters: http://www.newamerica.org/subscribe/#

Visit newamerica.org