Heigh Ho — Work and Wellbeing

<p>Today’s AI-assisted conversation is based on my post, "A Nation that Catches Workers Before They Fall," about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which was an inflection point in the arc of American worker...

<p>"Organizational solutions" are gaining traction in conversations about employee wellbeing. </p><p>Organizational solutions entail changing how work is done. Enjoy this AI-assisted conversation about one example of an...

<p>This AI-assisted conversation takes a deep dive into Bob Merberg’s excerpted presentation, given to a group of employees around the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, about mental health stigma.</p><p>Unfortunately, for...

<p>Change the work, not the worker.</p><p>This lively AI-assisted conversation takes a deep dive into the basics of job characteristics, motivating job potential, job design, and job crafting. It’s based on a recorded...

<p>This experimental AI-assisted two-person conversation is based on the Heigh Ho article, Teenage Workland: Taking stock of teenage worker wellbeing (in words, numbers, and music), which includes the chart the podcast...

<p>Something different: This episode is a conversation that dives deep into a mash-up of two Heigh Ho articles...</p><p>When Civility Policies Run Amok-accino</p><p>and</p><p>Ambiguous Civility Policy Burns...

<p>(Subscribe to the Heigh Ho newsletter at heighho.substack.com.)</p><p>Get a look from "the seat" as Muni driver Mc Allen describes why he loves his job and San Francisco and public transportation in general.</p><p>Mc...

<p>The job stress of city transit operators, especially bus drivers, has probably been studied more than any other occupation. Along with other jobs in the transportation industry, bus driving is often cited as one of...

<p>Gazing out over Lake Erie from the Cleveland waterfront, you’re likely to see commercial and recreational watercraft. You’ll see white-capped waves and, in winter, some ice floes. But you may be in the dark about...

<p>In 1955 British naval historian Cyril Northcote Parkinson published in The Economist an article about bloated government bureaucracies, stating:</p><p>“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its...

<p>You'll have a new world opened for you as you listen to comments by Dustin — a Texas-based long-haul driver — about pay, work schedules, and life on the road.</p><p>Dustin also shares his perspective on work/life...

<p>Rob Baker, author of Personalization at Work, and Bob Merberg explore job crafting, where a worker tailors their job-related tasks, relationships, and thoughts to optimize how it fits to their strengths. The...

<p>Have you noticed business media banging the drum about workers’ willingness to accept less pay in exchange for certain benefits?</p><p>The business world’s insistence that satisfying jobs can only come at a financial...

<p>You’re invited to eavesdrop as Nikki Reynolds of Inspired Wellbeing Solutions and I have a no-holds-barred conversation about unpaid domestic work — which includes tasks like caretaking, cooking, cleaning, laundry...

<p>Unpaid domestic labor, also called unpaid work, is time and energy expended within a household or family for the benefit of its members. It places disproportionate burden on women, with implications for emotional...