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The Pandemic Has Exposed the Fallacy of the “Ideal Worker”
Recent research out of Iceland, for example, had more than twenty-five hundred participants, many of them in desk jobs, try a four-day workweek.
Cal Newport • It’s Time to Embrace Slow Productivity
We live less and less of our lives in the same temporal grooves as one another. The unbridled reign of this individualist ethos, fuelled by the demands of the market economy, has overwhelmed our traditional ways of organising time, meaning that the hours in which we rest, work and socialise are becoming ever more uncoordinated. It’s harder than eve
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.
The Economist shared interesting data from Slack showing how nights and weekends are becoming a lot more common thanks to a combination of blended boundaries and now never-ending parental responsibilities.
Venture Desktop • Economic Oceans and an Alternative Trade Route
The 8-hour work day, weekends, time off—hard-fought and won by the labor movement!—seem to have been triumphs for human health and well-being. Why should we assume that stopping here is right? Why should we assume that less work was better in the past, but less work now would be worse?