Is full-time work bad for our brains?
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#2of course it is, if you hate it
but if you only watch tv outside of work, i suggest not quitting
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#3To counter-act the click-bait title, here's the basic gist of the article, summed up by Carol Black, one of the people interviewed on the subject:
“The most important thing about work is that it should be ‘good work’. If it is good, it does not matter whether full-or part-time.”
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#4legalized ageism anyone?
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#5Stretching 2 hours of work into an 8-9 hour day through meetings and sneaky Reddit/hn usage is certainly bad for our brains. But this is the norm as long as managers interpret productivity as butts in seats.
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#6legalized ageism anyone?
???
What's being made legal here that was previously illegal?
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#7This is why companies need to be "results driven" vs "face-time driven".
"What did you deliver this week? This month? This quarter?", should be the only relevant question in the workplace, managers included.
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#8Absolutely. How can a society flourish when people are spending all their time for someone else? Full time work leaves little time for your health, family, friends, pets, and so on.
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#9This is why companies need to be "results driven" vs "face-time driven". "What did you deliver this week? This month? This quarter?", should be the only relevant question in the workplace, managers included.
I always wonder what percentage of corporate America's time is spent looking busy or alt-tabbing between a spreadsheet and solitaire when the boss walks by. If you could quantify it I bet the amount of waste is staggering.
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#10This is why companies need to be "results driven" vs "face-time driven". "What did you deliver this week? This month? This quarter?", should be the only relevant question in the workplace, managers included.
That doesn't matter. It will just lead to an increase in workload until you don't manage to finish all your tasks.