Quitting Mid-Crisis (Bonus)

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🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Are you leaving your organization during a critical time? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Shirli Kopelman, a negotiations professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. In this bonus episode, they talk through what to do when you’re planning to give notice during the coronavirus pandemic and can’t train your replacement.

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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, talk to the experts, and help you move forward.
0:32.5	Today we're bringing you a bonus episode on resigning from your job during the coronavirus pandemic,
0:37.5	and we're bringing back our expert guest from episode five on pay injustices.
0:42.1	Shirley Copelman is a professor at the University of Michigan's Raw School of Business.
0:46.4	She also wrote the book, Negotiating Genuinely, Being Yourself in Business.
0:50.6	Shirley, welcome back.
0:51.5	Thank you. It's really great to be here.
0:53.6	Shirley, people always obsess over when. It's really great to be here. Shirley, people always
0:54.7	obsess over when the right time is to give notice and try to be very strategic about it. Does
1:01.4	that standard playbook go out the window during a crisis? It's interesting because there's a disruption,
1:07.3	right? And so there might not be a conventional at the moment for anything,
1:12.2	which opens up some opportunities. Is it hard to make big decisions about resignations,
1:18.9	new jobs, etc., in times of such great uncertainty, though? Of course. It's going to be a lot more
1:25.6	stressful. So a smooth transition is something that I think people will be wishing for and not necessarily experiencing at the moment.
1:37.5	All right. Let's go to our question. Dear HBR, I find myself in a strange situation. Before the COVID-19 crisis, my husband accepted a
1:46.4	transfer across the country for work, so I was planning on resigning from my job. The pandemic has
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