Why having a bad job is worse for your health than having no job at all
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Why having a bad job is worse for your health than having no job at all
“Could there be anything more demoralizing than having to wake up in the morning five out of 7 days of one’s adult life to perform a task that one secretly believed did not need to be performed—that was simply a waste of time or resources, or that even made the world worse?.” This was asked by the anthropologist David Graeber a few years ago in a... See more
Vittorio Pelligra • Frontiers | Searching for meaning in a post-scarcity society. Implications for creativity and job design
A recent study conducted by McKinsey and Lean In, for example, which surveyed more than sixty-five thousand North American employees, primarily from knowledge sector jobs, found a significant increase in those describing themselves as feeling burned out “often” or “almost always.” A subsequent Gallup poll showed that American workers are now among
... See moreCal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Jobs where employees encounter high expectations and low control have been shown to lead to symptoms of depression. • Depression-like symptoms are painful. When people feel bad, they use distractions to avoid their pain and regain a sense of control.