Why Can't You Stop Scrolling on the Job?
Intergenerational conversation about workplace media consumption after the election
What a mercy, the election’s over, right? But its effects on workplace wellbeing are just getting started—especially when it comes to media consumption on the job.
If you’re like most of your coworkers, you spend a lot of time on socials, skimming the news. Look, the Mode/Switch Team’s not here to condemn. We’re here to make sense of media compulsions—and to help you deal with the information overload on the job better and more wisely.
Especially in times of rupture. You know, like now.
Besides our Boomer, Xer, and Millennial perspectives on work culture, you’ll also catch our Spell It Out feature, where we explore "white-fonting," a shrewd but risky practice in an era of algorithms and artificial intelligence.
True confession: Emily, David, LaShone, Ken, and I all sat down to the mics feeling exhausted by the intensity of the times. But we found our mojo, like we so often do, in the crazy joy of good talk.
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You may notice some overlap between our podcast conversation today and YOUR WHOLE FRIGGIN LIFE EXPERIENCE, lol.
So, if you come out of this podcast wanting more, more more on how to deal with information overload and technological exhaustion at work, get yourself a copy of my new book Digital Overwhelm.
The book builds on original research to discuss six approaches to digital communication in work culture today. The book’s full of stories offering guidance for our excessive times.
