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What motivates people to work hard? (Or: Productivity and Frederick Herzberg)

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Imagine a man sitting across from you. He has brown wavy hair, kind eyes and a broad smile. […]

Joshua Krook November 17, 2020 Economics

How To Get a Job As a Generalist

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I’ve had various people write to me following the release of my TEDx video earlier in the year. The […]

Joshua Krook October 23, 2019 Economics

Long Working Hours Are Making Australians: Unproductive, Mentally Ill, Physically Ill

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Research indicates working more than 48 hours a week is associated with significant declines in productivity, more mistakes […]

Joshua Krook February 27, 2019 Ideas

The Systematic Mistreatment of Casual Workers

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* This is an article written by Chloe Byrne, featuring quotations from myself and others on casual work […]

Joshua Krook June 13, 2018 Business

South Korea is Shutting Down Computers to Stop Overtime Work, We Should Too

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Recently, the South Korean government announced that they will be automatically shutting down government computers to stop overtime […]

Joshua Krook April 10, 2018 Business, Economics

What Will The Jobs of the Future Look Like?

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My book Essays in AI looks at the future of traditional work and the upheaval about to hit the […]

Joshua Krook October 22, 2017 Books, Ideas, Philosophy

We Should Have a 15 Hour Working Week (Says an Economist from 1930)

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By 2030, Keynes wrote, we should all be working 15 hours a week at full time wages (not […]

Joshua Krook October 22, 2017 Business, Economics, Ideas, Philosophy

What happened to the 15-hour workweek? Productivity gains went to the top 1%.

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In 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that technological change and productivity improvements would eventually lead to a 15-hour […]

Joshua Krook October 8, 2017 Books, Ideas

On the Future of Pointless Jobs, the 9-5 Work Day and the Robot Revolution

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When we see the world through the lens of how things currently are, it is almost impossible to […]

Joshua Krook January 23, 2015 Uncategorized

An Entitlement Complex, or Gen Y’s Quest for Meaning?

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In the late 1950s, Frederick Herzberg conducted surveys on what we now term “The Greatest Generation,” those who […]

Joshua Krook December 10, 2014 Ideas, Philosophy, Politics
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