My friends and I all happily logged into our email addresses from our crappy little apartments, checking in after hours from the used sofas where we watched The Hills and Rock of Love, using the laptops we’d bought in college. We competed to be the first to arrive at the office and the last to leave, marking our productivity by the time spent in th

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Burnout is an indicator that something has gone wrong in the way we organize our work. But as a concept it remains lodged in an old paradigm—a work ethic that was already dubious in America’s industrial period, and now, in a period of extreme inequality and increasing precarity across once-stable professions, is even harder to credit.