Managerial Set Hasn't Caught on to the Great Resignation

During my first job in media in the late 2010s, I was a glorified PowerPoint assembler on a magazine’s marketing team, where we spent our days figuring out what kinds of stories and topic areas corporate brands liked to put their advertising next to. One of the most popular themes was what we slickly called “The Future of Work”—a catchphrase cribbed from the marketing and MBA-swinging circles invested in forecasting all the exciting ways corporate life would change amidst peak millennialification of the workforce. We knew advertisers loved the idea of fashioning themselves as part of this revolution, and I still remember how I’d decorate those PowerPoints with stock images of ultramodern office spaces and stylish, suited figures in carefully varied skin tones. It never occurred to me, or my colleagues, or these brands, to wonder if the real future of work might actually look like something far more radical. Read Full Article »