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Robert Williams Oral History, 2021/02/22

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Title (Dublin Core)

Robert Williams Oral History, 2021/02/22
Mini oral history with Robert Williams, 02/22/2021

Description (Dublin Core)

This interview is with Robert Williams who speaks about how working from home during the pandemic had some positive impacts.

Recording Date (Dublin Core)

02/22/2021

Creator (Dublin Core)

Matthew Williams
Robert Williams

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

audio interview

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Technology
English Labor

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

online work
benefit
fuel
time
Hackettstown
New Jersey

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

silver linings prompt

Collection (Dublin Core)

Over 60

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Curatorial Notes (Dublin Core)

Erika Groudle
Corrected media file order, docx is same as pdf, made public. EG 05/07/2022

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

02/22/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

03/22/2021
05/05/2021
05/07/2022
08/02/2022
08/03/2023

Date Created (Dublin Core)

02/22/2021

Interviewer (Bibliographic Ontology)

Matthew Williams

Interviewee (Bibliographic Ontology)

Robert Williams

Location (Omeka Classic)

Hackettstown
New Jersey
United States of America

Format (Dublin Core)

mp4 audio
mp3 audio

Language (Dublin Core)

English

Duration (Omeka Classic)

00:02:03

abstract (Bibliographic Ontology)

This interview is with Robert Williams who speaks about how working from home during the pandemic had some positive impacts.

Transcription (Omeka Classic)

Matthew Williams 0:04
Okay. Hello, my name is Matthew Williams, and I am a graduate student intern with the COVID-19 Archive at ASU. The date is February 22 2021, and the time is 5:55pm, and I'm speaking with Robert Williams. I want to ask you a question about your pandemic experience but before I do, I would like to ask for your consent to record this response for the COVID-19 Archive. The COVID-19 Archive is a digital archive at ASU that is collecting pandemic experiences. Do I have your consent to record your response and add it to the archive with your name?

Robert Williams 0:45
Yes you do.

Matthew Williams 0:47
Thank you. First, can you tell me your name, age, race and where you live?

Robert Williams 0:55
Okay. My name is Robert Williams. And I'm 67 years old. I live in Hackettstown, New Jersey, and I identify as white.

Matthew Williams 1:09
Thank you, I'd like to ask you a quick question about the pandemic. So, we have experienced a lot of changes in 2020, and many have been negative and disruptive, but perhaps it's not all bad. What's one positive thing you've experienced during the pandemic?

Robert Williams 1:25
I think it proved without a doubt that if your job will support it, you can work from home. So that'll cut way back on any kind of commuting, both in time, fuel usage. It'll cut way back on, on people being away from their houses for long hours. So I think that that is, that's a positive thing from COVID.
Matthew Williams 1:51
Excellent. Thank you. I appreciate your time today, and I hope you have a good rest of your day.
Robert Williams 1:57
Okay. Thank you very much. You have a good day as well.

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This item was submitted on February 22, 2021 by Matthew Williams using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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