work
We build organizations on assumptions that seem natural, even inevitable. These pieces show what happens when you look closely at five of them: that abundance means cheaper goods rather than better work, that hierarchy makes teams effective, that our workload reflects what’s necessary, that good conversations require agreement, and
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This Labor Day, let's look beyond traditional definitions of work and money. While we celebrate workers, we might ask: what if work included all the unpaid labor that sustains families and communities? What if we organized our lives around meeting basic human needs rather than earning paychecks? Thi
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John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by the end of the century, technology would have become so far advanced that developed economies would have a 15-hour workweek. What we got is pointless work.
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Long hours deplete our ability to make good choices and make it harder to fit in a full night of sleep. As a result, workers are less productive, less healthy, even less ethical.
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research shows that it doesn’t always meet expectations.
Work and the workplace
Yo trabajo por la mañana, cuando el soporte biológico del escritor mejor funciona. Al lado de una ventana que da a un patio interior que se llena de luz y por el que oigo cantar a las vecinas, a los pájaros, incluso al perro. Porque por la mañana todo es
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The good people at 37signals incorporate change into the work they do and the schedule they follow by taking inspiration from the change in seasons. Call it organic management? CEO Jason Fried [twitter @jasonfried] writes about it at NYTimes.com.