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Listen Again: Work, Play, Rest - Part 3

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Are We Using Burnout Too Much?

There's several forces that joined together to become this overpowering wave. When time is money, nobody can afford to waste it. It wasn't until the industrial age when we started getting paid based on time rather than task accomplished. I don't think our policy makers and corporate leaders are using burnout enough. The World Health Organization already said that we were headed for an epidemic of burnout before the pandemic.

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