Episode 6: A Call for Accountability And Action - How does that show up in Norway vs America vs Australia (Part 2)

This episode is part II of the last episode, episode 5.

We continue our discussion about the millennials and gen z workforce asking for accountability and making a collective call for action. For many of us, COVID has either exacerbated or created mental health issues and stress levels that we hadn’t had or noticed before. There is a stigma around mental health problems especially in the relationship between employees and employers given it is often a place of work performance. This calls for more development of emotional intelligence and psychological flexibility amongst leaders and the work culture in organizations. But numbers show that people are still stressed and anxious due to the pandemic and that a significant amount of the younger workforce believe that their companies have done a poor job in supporting them. In addition to the stress and mental health problems, we’re battling, we’re still faced with other societal inequalities that too often show up in our personal lives leaving many to rethink our values on wealth distribution and discrimination because of our backgrounds. As people call for accountability and change, we don’t often know what we want to change into. Are we asking for more salaries, competitive employment benefits, regulations, labor laws, etc?

Meryn and I have been fortunate enough to experience different societal structures and organization cultures across the US, Australia, UK, and Norway. We’ve enjoyed the laws to protect the benefits of employees in Norway, but we also see the fast-changing landscape of market-driven organizational changes in the US and in Australia. Join us in on our discussion!

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Google’s Manipulated Ad Auctions, Microsoft Buys Activision Blizzard, and the Danger of Billionaires, Pivot Podcast, 2022

Deloitte Millennial Survey, A call for accountability and action, 2021

Credit Suisse Research Institute, Global Wealth Report, 2021 The World Inequality Lab, World Inequality Report, 2021 Bregman, Rutger

Utopia for Realists. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2017