Have you watched the WFRN’s Big Ideas Video Series yet? If not, you’re in for a treat. Below is a list of brief (15-20 minute) videos that powerfully illuminate work-family challenges and identify compelling solutions that lead to improved life quality, enhanced capacities to provide care, increased productivity, and greater social justice.
There is a lot of debate and discussion about work-life these days, such a return-to-work mandates, overwork, and the impact of AI at work and at home. This series is designed to center these debates in the best research as well as to bring the best big ideas into mainstream discussion.
Presenters are leading academic researchers, policy scholars, and business consultants. The videos are also ideal for use in college courses and can help to orient viewers to the promise of family-responsive practice.
- Brigid Schulte – Over Work: How to Live A Better Life
- Cali Yost – Why We Need to Reimagine How, When and Where Work is Done Together
- Ellen Galinsky – Skills for Success in School, Work and Life
- Subha Barry – Decisions That Define Us: The Ripple Effects of Inclusion
- Scott Schieman – NOT MY NECESSARY EVIL: 10 Bad Vibes About Work
- Kim French – Three Lies We Tell Ourselves About Work-Family Conflict
- Alejandra Ros Pilarz – Work-Family Balance Begins Before Childbirth – Work-Family Policies Should Too
- Yang Hu – What Can We Learn About Care From AI?
- Ariane Ollier-Malaterre – Tech Imaginaries: How We Think and Feel about Technology
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter – Think Outside the Building: Four Challenges to Bridging the Work-Family Divide
- Heejung Chung – Flexibility Stigma: Why We Think Remote Workers Are Slackers
- Jarrod Haar – Studying Work Loneliness Across Time
- Ameeta Jaga – Why Policies Must Recognize Care Realities