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America’s fever of workaholism is finally breaking

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Productivity has fallen, and experts are puzzled. I’m not. We’re all just tired

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Work, Work, Work – So a Few Can Be Rich

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Experts once predicted that Americans would face excess leisure time (2015)

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Workers deserve the right to disconnect (2021)

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In Praise of Idleness (1932)

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A monk’s guide to office life

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The Frustration with Productivity Culture

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Farmers always worked from home

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Hate Your Job

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The Abolition of Work (2002)

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We Don’t Need to Work So Much (2015)

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Better technology means higher expectations, which creates more work

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In Praise of Idleness (1932)

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Parkinson's Law: Work expands to fill available time

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Workism Is Making Americans Miserable

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The radical idea of a world without jobs

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Why are Adults so busy?

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Would a Work-Free World Be So Bad?

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Why do we work so hard?

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You really don’t need to work so much

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Why do people waste so much time at work?

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Why Do We Play Video Games That Feel Like Work?

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Why is everyone so busy?

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The Art of Not Working at Work

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How did we get so busy?

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"Niksen": The art of doing nothing

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Dispatches from the farm upstate

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