Two years into the pandemic, it's time to rethink what jobs mean, says economic sociologist Adina Sterling. "People are really tired."
The pandemic revealed that for too long, too many women have lived their lives on a tightrope, balancing multiple, conflicting demands, says Stanford scholar Adina Sterling.
And it’s come at a price: Recent data has shown that women have shouldered the burden of pandemic-related job losses. To retain and bring women back into the workforce, companies need to consider employees as whole human beings, with lives and loved ones outside of work, Sterling says.
Sterling, an associate professor of organizational behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, is an economic sociologist and organizational theorist who specializes in studying the way firms and labor and product markets interact and the implications of these interactions on organizational behaviors and career outcomes. She leads the Equity by Design Labopen in new window at Stanford GSB.
“ We need to move away from an efficiency and the bottom-line model, give workers more power, and design better jobs.
Adina Sterling
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