Articles from Harper's Magazine | Rethink Work

The Age of the Crisis of Work — No less than the state, work makes promises to its subjects. Our culture has scripts about what makes work worthwhile, not just necessary; not a burden to be endured but an important component of a flourishing life. And increasingly these scripts do not play out as written [2023]

In: Good life

Topics: How to be Human

Source: Harper's Magazine

The Spy Who Fired Me — In industry after industry, this data collection is part of an expensive, high-tech effort to squeeze every last drop of productivity from corporate workforces, an effort that pushes employees to their mental, emotional, and physical limits [2015]

In: Democracy & Power

Topics: Mental Health, Technofeudalism

Source: Harper's Magazine