The 9-to-5 Lie

People do not work as much as they claim (not even close).

Good article here on WorkLife about how most knowledge workers in one survey said they work about four hours/day or less, especially if they’re hybrid.

If you’re doing quick math at home, that means a lot of well-compensated “knowledge” workers are probably working 20–24 hours/week and getting paid for 40, which makes already-affluent white, middle-class executives pout like teenage girls who got cut from Varsity Volleyball. It’s comical to watch these things unfold and claim “adulthood” is even a reasonable way to describe life.

This obviously has a lot of different repercussions and I won’t go through them all, but I will say a couple of quick things here and there: