Forbes on the global burnout epidemic
Edward Siegel writes in Forbes about a set of surveys that reveal the extent of burnout in workplaces worldwide: New surveys underscore an essential reality about today’s workplace
It’s not just humans who benefit from working less
One of the things that everyone I talk to in SHORTER (US|UK) advises is to focus on your core work, and cut down on open-ended or low-margin commitments.
New report on women’s working hours finds that women are working more hours (you won’t believe what happens next)
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
Long hours, weekends and mental health
This 2018 episode of the Life’s Work podcast has an interesting brief conversation about the impact of working long hours and weekends on mental health? UCL researcher and
The magic trick of workism
Derek Thompson writes in The Atlantic about how workism, "the belief that work is not only necessary to economic production, but also the centerpiece of one’s identity and
Insecure overachievers
For some time, I've talked about why overwork has become the new normal, even for people who are fairly economically secure, or who have lots of control over
Adam Smith disliked overwork
https://www.flickr.com/photos/askpang/5500538580/in/photolist-9o4Gu5 Adam Smith's tomb, Edinburgh The report from The Mix about its four-day week had a quote from Adam Smith that "the man who works so moderately as
New studies on physician burnout
The Washington Post has an article on two new studies looking at physician burnout. One looks at burnout among young doctors, while the other underscores how challenging it’s
“It was really unfair that we were being pushed out of the business that we love… because some other people long before us had constructed a system that was broken:” elite restaurants are taking rest seriously
https://www.flickr.com/photos/askpang/5504032913/in/album-72157626196419985/ A few months ago, I came across an article about an Edinburgh restaurant that shifted to a four-day schedule. A couple days ago, I saw the article
Working late “just makes people think you’re inefficient”
Ruby Anderson explains how “Dutch Culture Taught Me to Be Brutally Honest,” and relates this anecdote from a friend about attitudes to working hours: “I had a Dutch