Coronavirus Career Limbo

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4.6 • 782 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Is the Covid-19 pandemic messing up your career plans? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Scott Galloway, a professor at NYU Stern School of Business. They talk through what to do when you’ve been laid off with a promise that you’ll be hired back eventually, your goal of moving into management has stalled, or your employer’s inflexible work-from-home policy is forcing you to look for other jobs in a difficult market.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.9	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.9	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.3	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.3	We don't need to let the conflicts get us down.
0:17.8	That's where Dear HBR comes in.
0:19.9	We take your questions, look at the research,
0:22.5	talk to the experts, and help you move forward.
0:32.8	Today we're answering questions from listeners who are in career limbo as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
0:39.0	Our guest is Scott Galloway, a professor at NYU Stern School of Business. You can also hear him on
0:44.4	the Prof G Show and Pivot Podcasts. Scott, thanks so much for coming on. Thanks for having me,
0:49.5	Allison. So it is hard to make a personal pivot in the middle of a pandemic, right?
1:01.0	Actually, I wonder if it's easier though, because it gives you time to think about what it is you want to do with your life. Have you been exposed to sickness or the prospect of sickness?
1:04.0	So I actually think a lot of people are probably going to come out of this with a disproportionate number of pivots, both professionally and personally.
1:11.2	It's the time to reflect and sort of take stock that we all have. Is that what you're arguing?
1:16.3	Well, crises have a tendency. I see COVID-19 not so much changing the future as accelerating it.
1:21.8	And I think we're seeing in China more divorce filings. And also when you see tens of millions of people filing for unemployment,
1:29.4	a lot of them are going to use that as an excuse or a fairly strong signal that they should be doing
1:34.7	something else.
1:37.6	Dear HBR, due to the coronavirus pandemic, I've been temporarily laid off from a telesales role
1:44.1	with a family business. Before the layoff, I'd been temporarily laid off from a telesales role with a family business.
1:45.7	Before the layoff, I'd requested to work from home, but that was refused on the grounds of
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