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Elevate with Robert Glazer
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Is There a Solution to Burnout?
You wrote a New Yorker piece on the hot topic of burnout. And you actually argued that the solution of burnout is not the four day work week, but something you describe as slow productivity. Can you explain what your research found and why you think that's actually the correct solution to the problem? Yeah. I mean, the work week is relevant to an industrial context. It's very aimed at hourly style industrial work where the main knobs are how much work do I actually do and how much I get paid for it. Knowledge work, most of this is not relevant.
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