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The Five-Day Workweek Is Dying
As Fried expands: Very few people work even 8 hours a day. You’re lucky if you get a few good hours in between all the meetings, interruptions, web surfing, office politics, and personal business that permeate the typical workday. Fewer official working hours helps squeeze the fat out of the typical workweek. Once everyone has less time to get thei
... See morefrom Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
This sudden interest in workplace experimentation is both welcome and needed, as much about how we work in the knowledge sector today is ossified into tradition and conventions, some of which are arbitrary and some of which are borrowed from different, older types of work. The proposals making waves at the moment, however, feel somehow insufficient
... See morefrom Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
Wonderful analogy