Per My Last Email

In this episode, Kaila and Kyle dig into and debate the most overrated and underrated work perks, and how to make the most of the ones you’re probably overlooking. Summer Fridays? Education credits? Unlimited PTO? You might be surprised by some of their controversial takes.

00:00 Intro

00:14 Reviewing the Morning Brew company party

05:09 Kaila’s party strength vs. Kyle’s party strength

06:53 Are company parties a good work perk?

08:42 Underrated work perk #1

10:28 Underrated work perk #2

11:37 Underrated work perk #3

14:15 Underrated work perk #4

15:04 Underrated work perk #5

16:18 Overrated work perk #1

18:35 Overrated work perk #2

21:57 Overrated work perk #3

24:45 Overrated work perk #4

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Each week on Per My Last Email, Morning Brew’s resident career experts Kaila and Kyle – whose careers have collectively spanned the corporate, government, nonprofit and startup sectors – debate the trickiest challenges in work life, and share tactics on how to overcome them. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app!

In this episode, Kaila and Kyle list the most annoying and the most appreciated qualities in a coworker. Plus, how to make the most of those good qualities and navigate the grating ones.

00:00 Intro

01:08 Coworker pet peeve #1

06:02 Coworker pet peeve #2

10:15 Coworker pet peeve #3

12:50 Coworker pet peeve #4

15:23 Coworker green flag #1

19:19 Coworker green flag #2

21:00 Coworker green flag #3

23:23 Coworker green flag #4

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Each week on Per My Last Email, Morning Brew’s resident career experts Kaila and Kyle – whose careers have collectively spanned the corporate, government, nonprofit and startup sectors – debate the trickiest challenges in work life, and share tactics on how to overcome them. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app!

In this episode, Kaila and Kyle discuss how AI is starting to impact how we communicate with one another at work. There are both obvious and subtle ways in which the technology is affecting how we speak, and Kaila and Kyle have some strong feelings about it.

00:00 Intro

00:18 The problem

04:04 How we got here

09:41 The inciting concern about how we talk to chatbots

13:05 Another communication heuristic that has been altered by AI

15:56 How using AI can be corrosive to work relationships

21:11 The linguistic tip-offs that signal something might have been written by AI

23:35 Another way that AI is changing how we speak

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Each week on Per My Last Email, Morning Brew’s resident career experts Kaila and Kyle – whose careers have collectively spanned the corporate, government, nonprofit and startup sectors – debate the trickiest challenges in work life, and share tactics on how to overcome them. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app!

In this episode, Kaila and Kyle dig into the unexpected ways in which work impacts our mental and physical health, and provide some tactics for how to avoid some of these health risks whether you work remotely or in an office.

00:00 Intro

02:22 Remote work and unhappiness

09:28 Kaila’s hot take on remote work

11:27 Tactics to avoid the pitfalls of remote work

16:00 The impact of work on our physical health

18:55 The thing impacting our health more than sitting all day

22:08 Why going into the office (vs working remotely) might be healthier overall

24:13 Middle Manager-itis

29:54 Per My Last Policy

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Each week on Per My Last Email, Morning Brew’s resident career experts Kaila and Kyle – whose careers have collectively spanned the corporate, government, nonprofit and startup sectors – debate the trickiest challenges in work life, and share tactics on how to overcome them. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app!

In this episode, Kaila and Kyle are joined by Tech Brew’s editor Saira Mueller to discuss current and emerging tech trends—from AI to surveillance technology—and how they’re impacting the workplace, and what we can do to improve our own work environment with them (or in spite of them).

00:00 Intro

01:39 How AI use has trended in the workplace

11:14 The AI software that has most impressed Tech Brew’s editor

12:24 The tech trends that have emerged with RTO (return to office)

15:33 Surveillance technology

18:47 The other reason companies use surveillance technology

21:44 Technology backlash and how to unplug

29:54 Game: Signal or Noise

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Each week on Per My Last Email, Morning Brew’s resident career experts Kaila and Kyle – whose careers have collectively spanned the corporate, government, nonprofit and startup sectors – debate the trickiest challenges in work life, and share tactics on how to overcome them. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app!