. >> reporter: no matter with a we wear said is harvard business about school professor arthur brooksw much more productive people are when they meet in person. when you are meeting with someone on zoom. my idea is 95% chance they are actually not paying attention to you. they are playing solitaire on the computer. >> and he said, don't under estimate the benefit of normal human contact. urihood saying you are a lonely person goes up 60-70% points. it's good, commuting is bad, and loanliness is worse. >> reporter: the concerns are that just sort of practical things. you know, like what is the etiquette in the office when you return to work? how do you greet somebody? >> yeah. i know, and we will find that out so there's basics that we know. wear pants. for example. that's a good one. you know, i can probably live without shaking hands. but i can't live without direct eye contact. >> we are all feeling rusty and wobbly as we enter whatever this new normall be. >> reporter: so it's not just me? >> no absolutely not. in fact a good number of us said this psychologist are anxious and drea

the author, arthur brooks, writes that, quote, if you've ever wanted to chuck up everything and just r joins us now. he's also a professor at harvard. it was an interesting read what's the message, arthur, that you want people to take away from this? >> well, i teach at the harvard business school and we try to organize everything according to the things you think about least but are most important what everybody is talking about is what they missed before the pandemic they want to go back to and all the things they hate from the pandemic that they don't want to go back to the opportunity is all the stuff you didn't like from before that you don't want to go back to and the things you want to keep from the pandemic so we need to have a strategic plan for our lives make a list of the stuff you hated from before. you know, the unproductive relationships at work. the people you hung out with just by inertia. if you're finding you're not hanging out with certain people, maybe you hated your book club but you did it for ten years, make a list of that stuff and don't go back to it. this is

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arthur brooks is a professor of management practice and host of a podcast the art of happiness with arthuro returning to normal. collect your data, make a list of things to leave behind and make a list of what to keep. why? >> nice to see you, dana. one of the things that everybody is talking about right now in the wayneing days of the coronavirus epidemic of all the stuff they missed from the do and the things they don't like about the academic. you should think about the things you don't miss from before and that you are planning or could make a plan to not return to and the things that you actually like from the epidemic that you want to keep. most people hate the epidemic especially the sickness and loss but there are certain things about our lives and relationships that we've been able to build we might like. collect the data. what is the toxic relationships you don't want to go back to? what are the hassles and things maybe you can change your life and avoid going forward? what are the ways you have learned to live that you like and making those two lists. you really, really can come

. >> reporter: no matter what we where, says arthur brooks, we need to go back. >> it is pretty amazingh more productive you are when you're meeting somebody. when you're meeting someone on zoom, 95% chance they're not paying attention to you. they're playing solitaire. >> reporter: and don't underestimate the benefit of human contact. >> your work capacity goes up 60%, 70%. there is no traffic, loneliness is bad, but commuting is worse. >> reporter: how do you greet somebody when you return to work? >> we will find that out. there are some basics that we know: wear pants, for example. [laughter] >> that's a good one. i can probably live without shaking hands, but i can't live without direct eye contact. >> reporter: we're all feeling a little rusty, a little wobbly as we enter whatever this new normal will be. so it is not just me? >> no, no, no. >> reporter: in fact, a good number of us, says psychologist ellen hendriksen, are anxious and dread going back to the office. >> social anxiety is driven by avoidance, and we have all been avoiding our normal social lives. >> reporter: you co

he's a columnist and podcast art of happiness with arthur brooks and the subject of the 2019 documentary film the pursuit. full disclosure professor brooks is a senior fellow at the abigail adams institute. richard wolf is the professor of economics emeritus at the university of massachusetts amherst. he's currently a visiting professor at the graduate program on international affairs at the new school university in new york city. the recent publications include economic theories, the keynesian and mark seah and the sickness is the system when capitalism fails to save us from pandemics or itself. that is the most recent 2020. professor wolf has also taught economics at yale university, city college of university of new york and paris. professor wolf's weekly show economic update is a syndicated for radio stations nationwide and is available for broadcast free speech tiki among other networks and for full disclosure professor wolf harvard college class of 1963. professor wolf will go first and will speak for about 15 to 20 minutes and professor, it's all yours. first of all, thank you to

he is a columnist for the atlantic, host of o'podcast art of happiness with arthur brooks and subject of the 2019 documentary film, the pursuit. and full disclear sure professor brooks a senior fellow at the abigail adams institute. richard d. wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the university of massachusetts amherst. he is a current -- current lay visiting professor at the graduate flame international affairs, at the new school university in new york city. his recent publications include contending economic theories, neoclassical and marxism and the sickness is the system, when capitals fail to save us from pandemics or itself. that's most recent 2020. professor brokes taught economics at yale university, the city college of new york and the sorbonne in paris. parole wolff's weekly show, economic update is sinned indicated over 70 radios stations nationwide and available for broadcast on free speech tv. in full disclosure professor wolff is harvard college class of 1963. professor wolff will go first, and will speak for 15 to 20 minutes and professor it's all yours. under. >

i was like, that notion that people want to work, and i'd like to believe that, and, you know, arthur brooksy's point and i was saying, well, i hope that's true, but this does -- this does not sound like that's true. >> not at all. it's not at all. i mean, maybe when the benefits roll over, yes, but no, the work is nothing versus the income people -- who wants to work if you can get it free? i mean, i think anybody who thinks that is not trying to find employees i need about 22 employees. and it is just really, really hard to find anyone steady if it's dignity of work, we treat people -- you know, we did a lot of work about how to treat people and i think that we -- we try to -- it's like costco we try to do more than everybody and it just doesn't matter the dignity of work, take that off the table. it's the benefits are just too great versus working why would you give up all those benefits just to work for $18 an hour it makes no sense. no economic sense. >> jim, the other issue you're facing in restaurants and businesses everywhere, is higher input costs, everything from chicken to just ab

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