The Work Week - After Hours

Steve and Shane discuss the growing noise around unemployment and if stimulus checks are hampering hiring and much more.  They discuss what shifts covid-19 have forced in their own lives professionally and personally. As Steve puts it, a Workquake has happened, and it's time to discuss the aftershocks of Covid-19 and how to use this time to create a better workplace.

In this episode, Steve and Shane pull back the layers on the rapidly changing workforce post-Covid-19. They discuss the Facebook and Google employees saying they would rather work from home than go back in the office for a $30k raise and much more. 

How businesses like Google, Facebook, Tesla, and others qualify candidates are changing rapidly. The need for education has never been greater but the need for a degree is diminishing. Steve and Shane discuss how this is impacting the workforce and what it means for the future of work.  

Recently a few of the tech world's biggest companies enacted policies essentially banning the discussion at work around politics and social issues. Steve and Shane peel back the issues around this and look into why these policies might work and might not work. We think it is important to note that social issues like racism, bigotry, social injustice, inequality, and inequity are not politics. Steve and Shane both strongly believe that a path forward to eradicate these awful things happening to people on a daily basis deserves the space to be discussed so that those unaffected can understand and learn why empathy around these issues is so powerful.

In today's world, someone is applying for a job they have never seen while buying a house they have never seen while buying a car they have never seen while dating someone they have never seen, that graduated from a university they never saw. Shane and Steve dive into the world of sight unseen and the behaviors and drivers of this new way of doing things.

From NCAA basketball to Silicon Valley the "employee" is becoming more informed and aware of better opportunities and causing people to look for a situation that treats them best. Things change, jobs change, coaches change, is it time to start embracing the change?

The Suez Canal disaster rocked the global economy. Steve and Shane dissect how every part of life has Suez Canal moments and what that means, what we can learn from them, and what we can do to mentally prepare ourselves for those unforeseen moments of crisis.