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The Pandemic Has Exposed the Fallacy of the “Ideal Worker”
- So the ideal worker norm — this is a term coined by Joan Acker. The ideal worker norm is the idea that adults today should be fully committed and entirely devoted to their jobs and their employers — available at a moment’s notice, unencumbered by external responsibilities that might diminish from their ability to perform their jobs well.
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Caitlyn Collins on The Ezra Klein Show - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-caitlyn-collins.html?showTranscript=1
Output per worker increased by almost 300% between 1950 and 2018 in the U.S. The standard American workweek, meanwhile, has remained unchanged, at about 40 hours.
This paradox is especially notable in the U.S., where the average work year is 1,767 hours compared with 1,354 in Germany, a difference largely due to Americans’ lack of vacation time.
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