But as business animals, we are highly likely to agree on it’s the commercial thing to do. We spent a decade basically saying, 'cool, it's the right thing to do' or 'it's the moral thing to do.' Well, the fact of the matter is you and I, as people, we may never agree on the right thing to do because we're from different backgrounds, we're from different geographies. In the beginning, when this conversation started circa 1990, there was so much conversation. Today, on this special episode, I have a more personal conversation with journalist and fellow Morgan Stanley podcast host, Sonari Glinton, about our own roles and experiences around equity within the economic landscape. And the second one, I would say is looking at diversity through the wrong lens. Carla : Welcome to Access and Opportunity. I'll tell you, there are two things that I think we need to focus on. In 2013, at age 50, Harris became vice president of Wealth Management and co-head of the Multicultural Client Strategy Group at Morgan Stanley. They like being in the context of being able to ideate with other people right there in the moment.īut I think if you say you can never be home again, you're going to have a real problem because what we proved last year is that you can produce in an extraordinary way from home - and without any guidance … There was no one that told you, you have to work between these hours and those hours … That’s what I think companies need to get their heads around is trust that people will continue to deliver… I do think that there are people who really like being in the office. Harris: You know what I believe? It's not that they want to stay at home forever, but they want the opportunity to be able to be at home sometimes. Carla Harris is a renowned international public speaker and is also a Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley. I thought it would be half, but I got the whole room. I asked a show of hands of who loves remote work.

How are you all doing with remote versus in person? Are there any differences you're seeing? Do women like it remote at home better? I did a speech to the Mortgage Bankers Association a couple of weeks ago. Brzezinski: I'd like to apply this to some of the realities that you might be dealing with in your own office.

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