Articles from NPR | Rethink Work

You aren’t lazy. You just need to slow down — The idea of laziness has been effectively and expertly wielded to make people feel unproductive and unworthy. It’s a lie, and a trap that makes us believe there’s always more we could be doing — at work, in our relationships, at home — and that worth is productivity [2021]

In: Good life

Topics: How to be Human, Productivity

Source: NPR

We 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

Source: NPR