work sucks, i know

“We used to think that our jobs were these things that should give us fulfillment professionally and completely,” Chapman says. “That’s very much the monogamy model.” For members of Gen Z like Chapman, that model’s grown outdated, particularly in the flexible world of online work and within the fluid organizational structure of decentralized

Resenteeism: staying in a job you’re fundamentally unhappy in due to concerns of job security or a lack of better options, and starting to actively resent it and make everyone aware of that fact.

Americans have tripled the time spent in meetings since 2020, data from Microsoft’s suite of business software show—leaving less time for the casual interactions that social scientists say foster happiness at work.