We’re Waking Up A (Tiny) Bit To The 9-To-5 Lie And How Much People Really Work

And that’s a good thing.

Good article here on WorkLife about how most knowledge workers in one survey said they work about four hours/day or less, especially if they’re hybrid:

Nearly half of workers say they work 4 hours a day

If you’re doing quick math at home, that means a lot of well-compensated “knowledge” workers are probably working 20–24 hours/week and getting paid for 40, which makes already-affluent white, middle-class executives pout like teenage girls who got cut from Varsity Volleyball. It’s comical to watch these things unfold and claim “adulthood” is even a reasonable way to describe life.

This obviously has a lot of different repercussions and I won’t go through them all, but I will say a couple of quick things here and there:

1. The main thing going on here is meetings: As you rise up a “knowledge” work chain, you get called into more meetings, which can consume 4–6 hours of your day. Meetings can be productive and/or useful, but most of know that often they are not. There’s a weird perversion…