In her new book, Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life, author Brigid Schulte says the pandemic triggered a workplace power struggle that will take years to resolve
When pandemic lockdowns hit in March, 2020, few anticipated that the intense disruptions to work would persist 4½ years later.back in the office. Earlier this month, the U.K. arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers announced it would begin location tracking its 26,000 employees by January in a bid to rein in working from home. PwC’s approach follows similar moves at Google, which started weighing attendance on its performance reviews last year.and conducive to work-life balance.
Schulte believes the way we work is a choice. She dives into promising case studies of people doing work differently. Many are doing so in countries that have developed guardrails – legislation limiting work hours, paid family leave policies, affordable child care and newer “well-being economies.” She spoke with The Globe and Mail.
Today, surveillance is coming back into play, with companies counting badge swipes and tracking people. It shows how we’re still in this very unsettled place. You report on hourly, low-wage workers, who have far less control over their schedules than white-collar workers. Research finds “time strain” has twice the negative impact on people as wages. Why?
That created an opening for a reimagining. What are we doing? What is the purpose of a nation, and how do we decide if we’re successful? Iceland began this pioneering well-being economy government movement. The success of a country should be the health of its people. It shifted their orientation toward quality of life and created this opening to change the way they work.
You urge finding an “enlarged sense of meaning,” beyond the meaning we derive from paid work. Time-use surveys find our volunteer hours are down drastically, as is time with friends. How did we get here?
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