How Do We Work?: Recent Episodes
Magda Pecsenye
In this episode, Magda talks with Shanice Telusnor, her co-worker working the polls for elections in the city of Detroit, about why they do it and what the experience is like.
In this episode, Magda talks to civic technologist and UX designer Cyd Harrell, who is dedicated to a more inclusive, more capable, and better coordinated civic tech movement.
In her new book, A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide, Cyd explains what civic technology is, how it rules our daily lives, and how we can all become more conscious of how we interact with civic technology.
In this episode, Magda talks with Emily Benson, an academic who focuses on career progression, about how women have been particularly hard-hit by job loss and career stress during the pandemic, and how the next phase going into the next academic year will likely be even worse for women.
In this episode, Magda and selling expert Tiffany Noel Taylor talk about the relationship of risk to reward when people are employees and when they work for themselves, and how we all calculate fear and risk differently.
Magda is joined by communications consultant and work-from-home advocate Maya Geryk to talk about what working from home well and managing from home looks like, why working from home has been so difficult and chaotic during the pandemic, and how companies should focus on one strategy to keep workers home rather than many, less reliable contingencies for returning to the office.
In this episode, Magda talls about how failure and grace are essential parts of how humans work, and how we need to fix the way we've been managing teams and our families during this pandemic.
School districts across the country have rushed to "online learning" in the face of pandemic-induced closures, but this misguided pivot is doing a disservice to every party involved. Classroom teachers are ill-prepared to migrate their skills online, students are having great difficulty in adjusting to isolation, and exasperated parents are caught in the middle.