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:
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