Work Less: New strategies for a changing workplace

✍ Scribed by Jon Peirce

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✦ Synopsis

"Peirce tells the intriguing story of the battle for shorter hours ... and why now is finally the moment for a breakthrough that would give us all more of the precious gift of time." — LINDA McQUAIG, journalist and author
You can't have a healthy economy with an unhealthy work force. Work Less proposes ways to reduce work hours and keep workers happier, healthier, and more productive.
Recent years have revealed just how stressed out many workers are. While the trend to longer hours has been developing for several decades, the trend's effects have been aggravated during the pandemic by the growing use of Zoom and other new technologies for meetings with clients, customers, and co-workers.
Exhausted and fed up, today's workers are starting to insist on shorter hours and greater flexibility as to where they do their work. There is growing consensus that the forty-hour week, the norm since the 1940s, has outlived its usefulness. And there is an urgent...M.F

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