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June 6, 2023
Timothy Noah
The Real Reasons Why Workers Are Producing Less
Blame Covid over the short term, lousy wages over the long.
January 29, 2021
Apoorva Tadepalli
In Defense of Doing Nothing
The cultural impetus to hustle is built on decades-old political language. Why not try idleness instead?
March 17, 2020
Nick Martin
Against Productivity in a Pandemic
Why are we being told—by bosses, by fitness apps, by ourselves—to optimize this “new” time to get things done?
March 17, 2017
MagazineJacob Silverman
The Night Shift
The true cause of our sleeplessness epidemic.
November 14, 2014
Melissa Dahl
Don’t Waste Your Two Most Productive Hours
April 11, 2014
Sophie McBain
Why We Should All Be Working Less
December 14, 2013
Steven Poole
Against the Insufferable Cult of Productivity
September 2, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
Los Angeles is the Labor Movement's Great Success Story

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