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Would you want your child to work here?

4 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker urges listeners to pause and reflect on their own workplaces by asking a simple, personal question: would you want your child to work there or for you? The speaker suggests that a negative answer may stem from factors such as meaningless work, excessive stress, or other undesirable conditions. He then emphasizes that every employee is someone’s child, spending more waking hours at work than with their families, thereby framing workplace decisions as moral responsibilities toward these individuals.

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For those who are listening, I want you to think about it for a moment. Think about the places you work. Would you want your child to work there? Would you want your child to work for you? And if your answer is no, maybe because, yeah, the work is not meaningless. Or maybe there's too much stress. Or maybe there is, whatever it is, if the answer is no, or maybe know this, that every person who's working for you or working with you is somebody's child. They are spending more of their waking hours with you than they do with their families, with their spouses.