Time On Our Side: Why We All Need A Shorter Working Week

We live less and less of our lives in the same temporal grooves as one another. The unbridled reign of this individualist ethos, fuelled by the demands of the market economy, has overwhelmed our traditional ways of organising time, meaning that the hours in which we rest, work and socialise are becoming ever more uncoordinated. It’s harder than eve

One last thing that is also missing is something that’s to some extent missing in biology, too. But it’s certainly missing in economic thinking, and that is time. I mean, literally, time. That is, that time is speeding up. Time was very different when Mr. Smith wrote his book or when John Keynes wrote his book. Time is completely different now. It’

Forty hour work weeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes—train and sprint, then rest and reassess.