Jobs
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What motivates people to work hard? (Or: Productivity and Frederick Herzberg)
Imagine a man sitting across from you. He has brown wavy hair, kind eyes and a…
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How To Get a Job As a Generalist
I’ve had various people write to me following the release of my TEDx video earlier in the…
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Long Working Hours Are Making Australians: Unproductive, Mentally Ill, Physically Ill
Research indicates working more than 48 hours a week is associated with significant declines in productivity,…
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The Systematic Mistreatment of Casual Workers
* This is an article written by Chloe Byrne, featuring quotations from myself and others on…
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South Korea is Shutting Down Computers to Stop Overtime Work, We Should Too
Recently, the South Korean government announced that they will be automatically shutting down government computers to…
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What Will The Jobs of the Future Look Like?
My book Essays in AI looks at the future of traditional work and the upheaval about to…
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We Should Have a 15 Hour Working Week (Says an Economist from 1930)
By 2030, Keynes wrote, we should all be working 15 hours a week at full time…
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What happened to the 15-hour workweek? Productivity gains went to the top 1%.
In 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that technological change and productivity improvements would eventually lead to…
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On the Future of Pointless Jobs, the 9-5 Work Day and the Robot Revolution
When we see the world through the lens of how things currently are, it is almost…
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An Entitlement Complex, or Gen Y’s Quest for Meaning?
In the late 1950s, Frederick Herzberg conducted surveys on what we now term “The Greatest Generation,”…
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