In some of my recent conversations about the pandemic and future of work, I’ve argued that our mass live-streamed work-from-home reality TV / social experiment has revealed just
Brigid Schulte points out A new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research about “Gender Inequality, Work Hours, and the Future of Work:” Technological innovation through machine
A friend recently asked me how much things like our embrace of overwork and the M-curve in women's employment (the phenomenon of women dropping out of the workforce
Claire Cain Miller, who writes some great stuff about work and family for the New York Times, has a piece about mothers and medical practice: Medicine has become
When writing The Distraction Addiction and Rest, I could never shake a certain uneasiness with both projects: my concern that the self-help genre lets corporations and culture off
The Atlantic has an article arguing that our belief that you should be passionate about your work has the unintended effect of discouraging women from working if they
Flexible working hours are good, right? The give you a greater degree of control over your own schedule, so you can take time off to pick up the
