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Working more hours
We expect the evolution of work to provide more opportunities for people to thrive and enjoy their careers.
In 1930, Milton Keys predicted that technology would be so advanced in the future that we would work only 15 hours a week. Although he was wrong, we should consider whether the extra twenty hours most people put in each week has anything to do with enjoyment or our passionate relation to our jobs and careers.
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Fun has surprising benefits
There is a positive relationship between how much fun you have at work and how prosocial, ethical, and altruistic you are with your colleagues. So even if fun doesn't increase your performance, it increases your desire to be friendly and avoid being a toxic colleague.
Organizational program...
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Work and fun didn't always mix
Research shows that over 75% of college-educated workers expect passion to be a key ingredient in their career choices.
Yet, throughout human history, work was mostly work, and enjoying it was an exception. For example, ancient Greeks and Romans regarded work as something to give to slaves....
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Differences in the degree to which people need fun at work
Assuming we all want to work in places that are entertaining or amusing is misguided.
- Millennials and Gen Xers tend to score higher on individualistic traits, which predict more hedonistic and self-indulgent work environments.
- Extroverted and agreeable individuals desire fun w...
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Love for the work does not always equal performance
Research shows that loving your job improves your creative performance at work by nine percent.
Similarly, there is at most a nine percent overlap between how much you love your job and how well you perform at it. Those who love their jobs may be terrible performers, and those who are miser...
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Past predictions about the average working hours
Nearly a century ago, British economist John Keynes predicted this generation would only work 15 hours a week.
In 1890, workers worked an average of 60 hours per week. By 1890, the average working hours dropped to 37. However, by the 1970s, the downward trend of working hours had turne...
Exploring the abolition of work
- In 1885, socialist William Morris proposed that in the factories of the future, employees should work only four hours a day.
- In 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that advances in technology would lead to an age of leisure where people might work 15 hours a week.
- Since the e...
The rise in the average working hours: contributing factors
The rise in average working hours a week can be related to three serious issues:
- We celebrate "being busy."
- We worry about losing our jobs in the current economic climate.
- We use devices that make us always on.
The rise of kn...
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