TED英文演说-大流行给我们上了工作、生活和平衡的4堂课英文演讲稿.docx

第 第 PAGE 1 页 4 lessons the pandemic taught us about work, life and balance 大流行给我们上了工作、生活和平衡的4堂课 00:10 Ive spent the last couple of years traveling around the world giving talks to big corporations and little bitty start-ups and lots of leadership teams and womens groups, and what Ive been talking to people about, Ive been trying really hard to convince people that we can change the way we work. 00:25 But every time I do a talk, somebody comes backstage or follows me offstage and says, You know, Im so inspired by what you say. Its so great, it makes so much sense. But we cant. We cant because were regulated. We cant because our CFO says we cant do it. We cant because were in Europe. “We can’t because we’re a service industry.” We cant because were a nonprofit. And then last year came the pandemic. And the pandemic changed everything all over the world. 00:57 Service people started realizing that they had to suit up and wear masks and take temperatures and wash their hands. We had to start standing six feet apart in lines. We started working from home. We started working virtually. And we started learning all kinds of things because we had to. All that muscle around innovation and flexibility and creativity that we didnt think we had, we had all along. And we now have realized that we can. 01:28 So what have we learned? I mean, what did we learn right away? First of all, we learned were not family. The family is the toddler walking around behind you in the Zoom call with the pet. The family is somebody needing their diaper changed. The family is making sure youre taking care of your mom. Thats your family. This is your team. And weve also learned that that separation between family and work has become this balancing act. And that when we used to say, Well, this is my work home and this is my family home, and those are two completely different things, for many of us, its exactly the same thing. Youre no longer at home and at work. For many of us, work is at home