Life/Life Balance with COO Hannah Kreiswirth
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Life-life Balance Over Work-life Balance with Hannah Kreiswirth\\xa0
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Episode 222: Show Notes
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In most companies, the role of the chief operating officer is not directly concerned with employee wellbeing, satisfaction, or recruitment. This is not the case with AREA 17, where COO Hannah Kreiswirth makes it her priority to ensure that the employees are happy. Join us to find out why Hannah does this (people make the company), and how she ensures employee contentment.\\xa0 Hannah explains the difference between jobs that are just jobs and those that are someone\\u2019s life, as well as why life-life balance is a better concept than work-life balance. We touch on the debate around remote work and returning to the office, and what companies can do to create a space that empowers employees to be the person they want to share. For all this and so much more, tune in today!
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Key Points From This Episode:
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- Welcome to Hannah Kreiswirth, COO and partner at AREA 17.\\xa0
- How Hannah moved from the film industry to publishing and finally to AREA 17.\\xa0
- Finding the company for you: identifying those that care about the same things you do.\\xa0
- Using storytelling in the interview process, from both a recruiter and a candidate\\u2019s point of view.\\xa0
- The pros and cons of \\u201cSome jobs are jobs\\u201d and \\u201cSome jobs are life\\u201d.\\xa0
- Why the distinction between \\u201cLife-life balance\\u201d and \\u201cwork-life balance\\u201d is an important one to make.\\xa0
- Why flexibility is key in creating a work environment that benefits all parties.\\xa0
- What companies can do to empower people to design a work-life that is best for them.
- AREA 17\'s values, and what Hannah understands by them.\\xa0
- Why Hannah, as a COO, has focused on people.\\xa0
- The debate around remote work vs office work, and balancing the two.\\xa0
- How Hannah feels about the virtual work experience.\\xa0
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Tweetables:
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\\u201cI found myself engaged in the Internet and realizing that that is a space where storytelling and sort of social history is happening as we speak.\\u201d \\u2014 @hannahteak [0:02:18]
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\\u201cThere\\u2019s that trope of \\u2018work to live\\u2019 versus \'live to work\\u2019. My view is that both of those are a bit wrong because work is inherently a big part of all of our lives unless you\\u2019re so privileged to not need to do that at all.\\u201d \\u2014 @hannahteak [0:08:09]
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\\u201cIt never occurred to me that having a focus on people wouldn\\u2019t fundamentally be what a COO\\u2019s job is. Because at the end of the day, to me, our business doesn\\u2019t exist without our people and that\\u2019s something that has been central to who we are from day one and 19 years later.\\u201d \\u2014 @hannahteak [0:21:33]
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