It was confirmed today that Prince Harry now has a job. He is the Chief Impact Officer at a Silicon Valley startup called BetterUp which provides “coaching and mental health services” to corporate clients. The Wall Street Journal first reported the news:

Harry’s bio has already been addedto the leadership team page:

Prince Harry's BetterUp bio

Chief Impact Officer… what does that mean? Per CNN, Harry is “expected to have input into product strategy decisions and charitable contributions, and advocate publicly on topics related to mental health”. BetterUp’s CEO, Alexi Robichaux told the WSJ that this is “a meaningful and meaty role”. Part of which will likely include public relations? That would fit into the “advocate publicly” part of the job description. Few people have his name recognition, his reach, his ability to walk into any room, access any media outlet, every camera. BetterUp is likely counting on that to raise its own profile – after all, you’ve now heard of them, because Prince Harry is working there. To say nothing of the new business they might attract now that people have a way to actually get one step closer to Prince Harry. Not all clients, obviously, will have contact with BetterUp’s Chief Impact Officer but the possibility is still there…if, that is, you and your company connect with them for their services.

因此，在担任英国王室高级成员的一年后，哈里王子和梅根·马克尔（Prince Harry）和梅根·马克尔（Meghan Markle）做出了一些严肃的举动：与Netflix和Spotify打交道，巩固了Archewell的计划，在年度电视节目中与Oprah洒了所有茶- 现在这是哈利和他的新工作……他的第一个真正的工作？从某种意义上说，作为皇家的工作，这是一项工作，但这是我们大多数人都理解工作的工作，就像在获得实际的常规薪资一样，扣除了税款，要求福利，参加健康和安全会议，名片印刷…

Business cards!

I know tech people like to do things digitally but in my experience, people still do business cards. And Prince Harry’s business cards will read “Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex”. LOLOLOLOL. I’m not laughing at him, I’m laughing at the reaction of people getting his business card. What do you do with business cards, be honest? Like, sure, maybe you have a folder and you tuck them away or you take down the information in your phone/email contacts and you recycle?

这不是什么将发生在哈尔王子ry’s business card. Nobody’s tucking that sh-t away. If anything they’ll be taking a photo of it and sharing it on the group chat. He needs to be judicious with the distribution of this business card.

Realistically, I can’t imagine post-pandemic that Harry will be clocking in every day. Even if you’re not Prince Harry COVID-19 has disrupted what the workplace looks like, and will look like, going forward. Once people have been vaccinated, and the pandemic is declared over, there is no “normal” the way “normal” was before. Already businesses are reorganising for a permanent remote working setup the way it’s been over the last year where possible. And Harry’s job as Chief Impact Officer is probably something he can do remotely, save for the occasions where he has to attend major board meetings etc and make appearances. And company retreats? Imagine Harry participating in an icebreaker exercise?

Oh and the office Christmas party.

Harry and Meghan at the office Christmas party! When drunk Phil from accounting comes to them and wants a selfie.

It’s a lot of firsts for Harry now. Given what he’s said in the past, the way he almost daydreamed about being unroyal and having the experience that unroyal people have, all of this must be a total trip. You know those rom-coms when the prince gets amnesia or something and has a fish-out-of-water experience living among commoners? That’s literally Prince Harry now.