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You lose your freedom, your motivation, your soul, and in exchange for control over your life, your company often gets little more than a show of work.
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028 |
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When people have high demands and high control, their life can be hectic but manageable. They figure out what needs to be done and when.
|
034 |
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As opposed to being a way to make work suck less, flexible work arrangements actually reinforce the status quo. In fact, flextime can make life suck more.
|
044 |
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When you’re giving Sludge or receiving it or anticipating it you’re not contributing to work or to your life.
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054 |
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…if you have to think about it in terms of one side having to win… The employee wins. The employee gets their life back, their sanity, and their sense of self-worth.
|
082 |
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…the status quo makes us masters of the white lie. But there is something deeper going on here, something that gets back to the idea that your job owns your time.
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099 |
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…many managers would rather have their employees in the building during traditional working hours doing nothing than out of their sight and being productive for their own lives.
|
101 |
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You owe [your employer] your work; you do not owe them your time. You do not owe them your life.
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178 |
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…people have to demand a better way of working and living. No one is going to give this to us.
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179 |
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…by living mostly desk-bound sedentary lives, we expend too little physical energy and grow progressively weaker. Inactivity takes a toll not just on our bodies, but also on how we feel and how we think.
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005 |
