Episode 5: Cancel Culture and a Call for Accountability at the Workplace - Does It Help? (Part 1)

Over the past weeks and months, we’ve been traveling around to meet old friends around the world. Valerie has been in the US, UK, Canada, and Norway while Meryn has been in Norway and Australia. We reflect on our encounters and conversations we have with our friends of different perspectives and share the contrasting movements across countries and continents. From those encounters, we are reminded of how difficult it can be for many of our peers, who are busy building a life (as one does in their late 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s), to deal with all the emerging social and climate challenges of today. It can be easy to underestimate ourselves to tackle big systemic problems that seem impossible like climate change and social injustices, but we’ve also witnessed collective action in many ways that have progressed us further every day. One of them is cancel culture, a powerful yet dangerous modern form of boycotting and ostracism, for better or worse. While cancel culture has its pros and cons, the call for accountability is spreading towards the corporate world where millennials and gen z are taking these values to the workplace for the better. Of these values, we discuss the key topics of concern such as climate, business in society, mental health, systemic racism, health in the workplace, and stress (exacerbated during COVID).

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