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quitting your job is a rite of passage
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for everyone whether you're turning in
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your two weeks notice because you're
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going to college or turning in your two
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seconds notice before they find all the
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printer cartridges you've stuffed into
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your pants and America just set a new
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record for how many people are calling
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it quits it's being called the Great
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resignation a record number of Americans
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are telling their bosses I quit
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according to a new Labor Department
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report 4.3 million people quit in August
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that's the highest number of people
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quitting on records dating back to more
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than 20 years and that's up from 4
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million who walked away from jobs in
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June leading the quitters restaurant
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hotel and Retail employees 892
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000 workers in food and accommodations
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quit in the month 721 000 employees in
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retail workers in state and local
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government education also quit by the
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thousands there are more jobs available
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now than ever before in U.S history many
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businesses are suffering from a major
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shortage of workers with a 10.4 million
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jobs open employers are scrambling to
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find help that's right more people than
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ever before are quitting their jobs
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restaurant workers are quitting teachers
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are quitting Katie Couric quit being a
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journalist and some of the numbers are
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crazy 700 000 people quit retail jobs
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which explains why the TJ Maxx I went to
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yesterday looked like it was hit by a
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tornado
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what
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oh it always looks that way no the shoes
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were on the roof so many workers have
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left pretty soon every business is just
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going to be self-service
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like you realize you're gonna have to
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make your own food at a restaurant or
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you're gonna have to give yourself a
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root canal or even worse at strip clubs
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you're going to be dancing for yourself
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in the mirror oh yeah I like that don't
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I I'm gonna give me all my money man
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this trip is in this club are really sad
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by the way
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can I ask you guys a question like why
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is everything in America the Great
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like do you ever think about that it's
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like the Great Depression the Great
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Recession the great resignation The
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Great Gatsby I mean like the dude got
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shot in a swimming pool like a little
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what's great about that anyway you
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you might be wondering why everyone is
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quitting now like right now why is
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everyone quitting I mean people have
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wanted to quit their job since the
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beginning of time right all the way back
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to caveman days the guy who's sharpened
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the Stones by hitting him against other
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Stones he hates his job he just wanted
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to dance but music hadn't been invented
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yet
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but it turns out there isn't one reason
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people are quitting their jobs because
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the pandemic has given people a million
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reasons to quit their jobs Americans are
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looking for better pay better working
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conditions and more flexible working
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Arrangements some have elder care and
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child care responsibilities in this
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pandemic some say they feel burned out
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after working through a year that had so
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many challenges three to four million
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people are still saying I am fearful for
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my health for the health of my loved
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ones and therefore unwilling to take
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jobs where the risk of contingent is
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higher millions of Americans worked from
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home over the last year and will likely
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quit rather than go back to the office
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Anastasia long to return to working from
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home and bravely asked the question well
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why can't I have that like we did we did
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have it we all worked from home
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so why can't why can't I still have that
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because I mean yeah look you know what
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she has a point for companies that had
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people work from home during the
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pandemic everything seemed fine they
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kept making money they kept making a
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profit which really made a lot of people
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wonder what the point of coming back
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into the office is like why sit in two
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hours of traffic to then sit at a
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computer that has the same internet as
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my computer at home except everyone here
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can see that I'm looking at porn I mean
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honestly I think companies are playing a
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dangerous game here if you're telling
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employees the only time they can work
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from home is when there's a global
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pandemic you're going to have people
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trying to start another pandemic there's
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going to be people sneaking into the zoo
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like all right let's see what happens
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when I bite this Turtle ah
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okay nothing there I guess I gotta try
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banging that snake but it's not just a
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desire to work from home there are so
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many reasons that people are quitting
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their jobs right now some people don't
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feel safe because of covid some people
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don't have child care some people are
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burned out
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and some people just want to try their
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luck in Squid game I mean it's a lot of
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money you know if you ignore the people
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who died it's a pretty inspiring story
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but there's another reason people are
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quitting and honestly I think this
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reason is one of the most interesting
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because it comes from a deeper almost
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philosophical place for a lot of people
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the pandemic has changed their minds
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about life really and what's important
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and for some people that means changing
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careers a growing number of them are not
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jumping to a new full-time job but just
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taking a break they are saying I don't
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want another full-time job right now I
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want to hit pause maybe learn some new
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skills take a breather
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um and maybe plot a new Direction in my
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career it was a lot of reflection time I
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know what I want out of my career might
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as well just make the move 42 year old
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Dan nicolayesku had spent more than two
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decades in the restaurant industry but
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he says a year home with his wife and
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two kids changed his perspective Nikolai
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Esco is hoping to trade Mixology for
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mycology mushroom farming is there money
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in mushroom farming
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I guess I'll have to find out
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but we can't always pursue only the
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financial side of things there is no
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rewind button in life right the man that
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ties women to train tracks is right
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there's more to life than making money
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and the pandemic has forced people to
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reconsider whether their jobs were
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really how they wanted to spend their
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entire lives and I'm not just talking
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about boring office jobs either I mean
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this guy was mixing cocktails I'm
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assuming in the 1800s and even he wanted
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to try something new
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and I'll be honest I think it's great
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that people are pursuing their dreams
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but
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I also think we need like a Google doc
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or something just you know to make sure
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we're balancing things out like think
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about it we can't have a society where
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everybody is pursuing their quirky
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second careers I'm all for mushroom
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Farmers but I still need a proctologist
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those M M's aren't going to remove
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themselves
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now obviously most people won't or can't
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leave their jobs so these quizzes are a
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very small minority but the quitters are
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still having a broader impact because
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with so many workers willing to leave
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their jobs companies are forced to make
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the jobs more appealing a pandemic
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forced powershift employees gaining the
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upper hand and making lifestyle demands
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with employers hoping to keep them happy
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some companies are changing their
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policies to adapt to the times offering
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more perks and flexibility REI the
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apparel retailer gave up their
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headquarters building in favor of
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creating satellite offices so that
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people could go to work but go to work
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in a smaller office that would be closer
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to their home LinkedIn is leaving the
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office behind for good the networking
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website says most of it's 16 000
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employees will be allowed to work
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remotely full-time the crowdfunding
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platform Kickstarter says it's gearing
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up to test a four-day work week the
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popular dating app Bumble closing its
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offices this entire week to give its
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staff a break Nike they just gave a week
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off to their employees so that their
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employees can really recharge yes
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finally
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finally people it's great that companies
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are starting to be a little more
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flexible and you know who deserves the
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most credits
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Spirit Airlines they were way ahead of
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the curve on this yeah the guy who
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cleans their airplanes he's been working
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from home for years
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and you know what sort of sucks what
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sort of sucks about this thing is how
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it's all the white collar jobs that are
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getting more flexible because I know
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anyone in any job can get burned up
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don't get me wrong but I would love to
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see the stuffs of Kickstarter and Bumble
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try to explain how burnt out they are to
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a group of coal miners in like West
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Virginia
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we had this one customer who just would
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not verify his email I mean how was your
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day
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Carl died
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yeah so you totally get it I will say
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though the one company we really can't
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afford to lose employees is go fund me
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like they better make the jobs more
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flexible we kind of GoFundMe employees
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quitting American Healthcare depends on
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it so look
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at the end of the day anytime humans
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experience a massive life change it
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changes what they expect from their work
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and these changes could be anything
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having a kid getting divorced losing a
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loved one and the pandemic has done that
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to everyone in different ways hell it's
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even done that to me like I thought I
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was going to host The Daily Show forever
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but no I don't know
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I mean I heard there's a job opening for
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a guy with a badass mustache to make
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cocktails and I think I might be
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interested
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