America needs more people working in home healthcare, and we need them quickly. With the U.S. elderly population doubling from 40 million to 80 million Americans in the next 20 to 25 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is predicting that “personal-care aide” will be the fastest growing job category in the next decade. There is just one problem: Working in home healthcare is unpredictable, under appreciated and underpaid work. This week, Chip and Caroline explore the fragmented market of home healthcare by speaking with entrepreneurs trying to fix the system and workers trying to make a living within it. Seth Sternberg, the CEO of Home healthcare startup Honor, joins Chip and Caroline to discuss why he thinks scale — and thinking of caring for the elderly as a bi-partisan issue — could solve the problem.

Will Caregivers Save The Economy?

Leaders across tech are convinced that diversity in the workplace — that big issue that you can’t go anywhere without hearing about — will be a non-issue within five years. The problem? Very few are doing anything to make that prediction come true. This week, Chip and Caroline discuss the results of LinkedIn’s latest diversity in tech survey, which found that despite the seemingly daily revelations about sexual harassment in tech, venture capital, entertainment and politics, how both investors and founders are treating these issues is largely unchanged. New America CEO and President Anne-Marie Slaughter joins them to bring more context to the results and share her take on how heightened media attention on abuse can benefit the American workplace.

Does Tech Have a Woman Problem? Not If You Ask

When we talk about the current realities of work and how it’s changing, there’s one thing we can all agree on: to survive, learning new skills — or switching jobs entirely — will likely be essential.  And as daunting as that prospect may sound, this isn’t the first time the American worker has had to adapt to get ready for the workforce of the future. With that in mind, what lessons can we learn from the Great Recession to help everyone rebound more quickly?  This week, we hear from Amy Goldstein, a staff writer at The Washington Post and the author of Janesville: An American Story. Her book focuses on the closing in late 2008 of the oldest-operating GM plant in the country and how workers in the area fared in the five years that followed. One of her findings is that workers who went through retraining programs often ended up worse financially than those who didn’t. Chip and Caroline dig in to what went wrong and what lessons can be learned.

The Town That Tried Retraining Itself

Welcome to Hello Monday – a show where senior editor at large Jessi Hempel investigates how we’re changing the nature of work, and how that work is changing us. What does work mean to us? Should we love what we do? How do we make sure we still have jobs tomorrow, and that they’re good jobs – jobs we feel good about?  Each week, Jessi will talk to featured guests who have navigated layoffs, company collapses, evaporating industries, and emerged from these transitions happier and more successful. We'll infuse these interviews with reporting from LinkedIn managing editor Caroline Fairchild to unearth and present lessons that apply to our own careers.

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For Hello Monday's first episode, host Jessi Hempel goes deep with the “Late Night with Seth Meyers” host on how helping writers helps the show, getting things wrong in order to get them right, and how he evolved from a Saturday Night Live cast member into the host of his own show.

Episode 1: Seth Meyers On Nurturing Talent

This week's episode of LinkedIn Editorial’s new original podcast, Hello Monday, features Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love. Host Jessi Hempel talks with Elizabeth about when to choose a job over a career, the secret to unleashing creativity, and the importance of not trying to make something for everyone.

Elizabeth Gilbert On Careers Versus Vocations

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