Rethink Work

Changing how we think about work

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  • faviconLos Angeles gave families $1,000 a month in the biggest basic income pilot in the country, reporting positive results for the recipients. Participants reported fewer housing burdens, better food security, safer home situations, and were more likely to secure full-time work than remain unemployed [2024]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: UBI   
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    Country: US   
    Source: Business Insider    

  • faviconSleeping in the office is making a comeback? Elon Musk would approve – but what about having a life? There is a wider belief there that asserting your right to leave, leisure and a life outside work is a duty, not a self-indulgence, since these were hard-won, historic social gains [2022]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Leisure, Worker Rights   
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    Source: The Guardian    

  • faviconWhat Will Leisure Mean to Us in the Future? It may require significantly transforming our deeply ingrained biases holding a life of work above all things else, and setting ourselves free to enjoy a more active, stimulating form of leisure, comprising the work we as individuals are driven to do [2023]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: How to be Human, Leisure   
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    Source: Farsight    

  • faviconWhy Americans Care About Work So Much – Workism is rooted in the belief that employment can provide everything we have historically expected from organized religion [2023]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Mental Health, Workism   
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    Source: The Atlantic    

  • faviconOur Only Imperative is to Achieve – Philosopher Byung-Chul Han argues in ‘Burnout Society’ that a cult of individual achievement has led to mass burnout and depression across society. Resisting burnout is simple, but easier said than done: we must slow down, and rediscover how to think [2023]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: How to be Human, Mental Health   
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    Source: Philosophy Break    

  • faviconWe think of it as an individual problem, but burnout is the result of conditions in workplaces, workplace culture. And it’s a result of society and the view that we have of how work plays a role in being a good citizen, being a good person and so on [2022]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Mental Health, Workism   
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    Source: NPR    

  • faviconAlmost half of Dell’s full-time US workforce has rejected the company’s return-to-office push. Close to 50% of Dell’s full-time workers in the US have opted to stay remote, even when that meant giving up the chance of promotion, a punitive policy Dell implemented to get employees back in the office [2024]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Remote Working   
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    Country: US   
    Source: Business Insider    

  • faviconThe workers have spoken: They’re staying home. Companies might want people’s rumps back in office chairs, but according to a recent Gartner report, 48% of employees say their company’s mandates prioritize what leaders want rather than what employees need to do good work [2024]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Productivity, Remote Working   
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    Source: Computerworld    

  • faviconBurnout is a structural issue, built into the dysfunctions of the industry. Burnout is made out of individualism, and meritocracy, and doing too much with too little. It is built on the idea that if we skip a meal and work more hours, we might finally get ahead [2015]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Mental Health   
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    Source: Independent Blogs    

  • faviconWords indicating labour in most European languages originate in an imagery of compulsion, torment, affliction and persecution. It seems that despite the progress, work doesn’t bring relief from poverty, but it’s rather a confirmation that humanity is destined to suffer needlessly and endlessly [2013]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Protestant Work Ethic   
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    Source: The Guardian    

  • faviconUBI, at its heart and in its philosophy, upholds the idea of social justice by acknowledging that everyone deserves a decent quality of living, regardless of socioeconomic status. By ensuring that every person receives an unconditional basic income, UBI supports people’s inherent worth and equality and ensures that no one is left behind in the quest for a fulfilling life [2024]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: UBI   
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    Source: Independent Blogs    

  • faviconIn a world of Covid, rampant social media mobs, rising ideologies, increasing risk of nuclear war, AI threatening some sort of hockey-stick growth curve, the rise of working from home is a rare bright spot mainly because it allows people to spend significantly more time with their families [2023]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Remote Working   
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    Source: The Intrinsic Perspective    

  • faviconClassical Music’s Burnout Addiction: The unhealthy practices in music education that prime young musicians for failure from the beginning – particularly the belief that burnout-inducing schedules offer an accurate representation of the professional world, to see if they’ll crack under the pressure [2023]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Mental Health   
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    Source: Various    

  • faviconThis world is built on the idea of work being an individual status point and symbol of success, which is meant to give unique meaning to our lives. Burnout is what happens when work no longer provides us with these things [2022]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: How to be Human   
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    Source: Farsight    

  • faviconBurnout is not a thing inside us that has gone wrong. It’s the relationship between our ideals for work and the reality of our jobs. To counter it, we need to make work less central to how we understand our lives and spend more time with our families, communities and enjoy more leisure time [2022]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Leisure, Mental Health, Workism   
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    Source: Welcome to the Jungle    

  • faviconThe Surprising Effects of Remote Work: Working from home could be making it easier for couples to become parents—and for parents to have more children [2023]
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    Topics: Remote Working   
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    Source: The Atlantic    

  • favicon“We’ve created a society where we fear boredom and we’re afraid of doing nothing,” says psychology lecturer Dr Sandi Mann. But in trying to avoid boredom, we miss out on its benefits. When we’re bored, we daydream, and that has been linked to creativity [2024]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Leisure, Mental Health   
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    Source: BBC    

  • faviconIt may not be that the 4-day work week revolutionises our minds as much as it might revolutionise our schedules. It will take more to truly disconnect ourselves from the impetus to work ever more or from the view that leisure’s purpose is to recuperate or distract from work [2023]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: 4 Day Week   
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    Source: The Guardian    

  • faviconBurnout culture is deeply rooted in our belief that work is “a means not just to a paycheck but to dignity, character, and a sense of purpose”. Burnout culture has persisted because we cherish these ideals about work. We fear losing the meaning that work promises [2022]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Workism   
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    Source: Various    

  • faviconIn a ground-breaking public attitudes study, the Fairness Foundation has unveiled striking insights into the web of factors influencing the health and well-being of people in Britain. One of the most significant revelations from the study is the pervasive impact of work on people’s health across age groups and income brackets [2023]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Research   
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    Country: UK   
    Source: New Statesman    

  • favicon‘The new normal’: work from home is here to stay, US data shows — While the number of people working from home surged in 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic, peaking at around 60% during lockdown, people started returning to work in 2021. But then the number of people doing remote work started to stabilize
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Remote Working   
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    Source: The Guardian    

  • faviconThe concept of a guaranteed basic income might seem novel or neoteric, but it dates back to 1795, when Thomas Paine suggested a “national fund” should pay every adult a “ground rent” of £10 a year until the age of 50. Earth is “the common property of the human race”, he argued, so everyone has been collectively dispossessed by “the introduction of the system of landed property” and was entitled to compensation
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    Topics: UBI   
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    Source: The Guardian    

  • faviconBeyond the Grind: Envisioning a Society Valuing Leisure – Stuart Whatley’s compelling argument for reviving the leisure ethic in modern society, contrasting our work-centric lifestyle with historical perspectives that valued free time and intrinsic pursuits
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    Topics: Leisure, Workism   
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    Source: Gear & Grit    

  • faviconAs America’s attitudes toward religion have continued to shift, it was perhaps inevitable that Americans would now worship at the altar of work instead. There’s a word for seeking such validation, identity and community in your career: workism [2024]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: How to be Human, Workism   
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    Country: US   
    Source: The Week    

  • faviconReversing the wealth transfers trend from young to old through Universal Basic Income offers a promising solution by redistributing wealth more equitability, stimulating economic growth, and promoting social cohesion [2024]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: UBI   
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    Source: Independent Blogs