A Failed Soviet Experiment Offers A Warning To Today’s Burnout Generation

nepreryvka (“continuous workweek”), weeks would now be five days long, and days off would be staggered. You might rest on day one, while your spouse rested on day three and your parents on day four. The idea was that this would let factories run continuously, with the side benefit of preventing church attendance or family gatherings. Even though th

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I often only feel I have worked enough if, at the end of the day, I am bone-tired and wrung out. The team who designed the original Macintosh computer wore T-shirts boasting WORKING 90 HOURS A WEEK AND LOVING IT! This could be the insane slogan for our professional class. Many of us have built our identities around working to the point of exhaustio

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“ resisting the pull to work endless hours is as much about keeping ourselves able to sustainably do the work [...] as it is about leaving space in life for other sources of fulfillment.”

Guardrails on the work day — on the work week! — make it possible for you to do the work for longer . Not longer hours, but, like, longer in life . It makes passi... See more