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Birth, bull job, death: Why we need to change the way we work
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By: Andrew Anthony
Our unsustainable work habits need to change, says anthropologist James Suzman in his new book, Work. By Andrew Anthony. Work is one of those words we use with such regularity that we rarely consider its meaning.
For most of us, it s just something to which we have to devote a large percentage of our time so we can live a satisfactory life.
If there are about 112 waking hours in a week, on average we spend more than a third of them working. For commuters, it s probably closer to a half. And with the omnipresence of email, the internet, Zoom and all our other digital paraphernalia, the shadow of work seems to grow ever longer.