How to structure employment so workers are more creative, productive, and happier.
Topics include:
- What percentage of employees work at home due to the pandemic
- How many hours per week do men and women work in both paid employment and unpaid caregiving
- How workers have been allocating the time saved by not commuting
- Why the economy would still prosper if we worked only four hours per day
- What is the cult of efficiency
- What is the difference between leisure and amusement
- Why employers reward busyness at work
- How work can be more satisfying and create
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Show Notes
Mental health: C-suite struggles in the pandemic by Rachel Ranosa—Human Resources Director
Deep Work (Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World) by Cal Newport
In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell—Harper's Magazine
Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving by Celeste Headlee
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle translated by Robert C. Bartlett and Susan D. Collins
Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
The Art of the Siesta by Thierry Paquot
When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency by Roger L. Martin
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