The Constant State of Work

Butt: I was just amazed i was like, do i work like that? If i do, i'm not really doing anything. And it's signalling in the sense that you're signalling to your family that you're important by taking yourself out of that moment with them - which is almost inverse signalling. He says he sees a lot of manic switching and an attention deficit disorder when it comes to work. Butt: There are cultural issues about how we expect people to respond to messages from our phones at 11 p m or two a m; this creates 'virus of unhappiness' for us all.