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Reef3  ·  3858 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Case For A 21-Hour Work Week

I also work in research, but I think the experience you describe applies to many areas of work. Flexibility and working when you are able, and not being forced to work when unlikely to do so or it is impossible accomplish anything meaningful. Being required to fit your work into pre-measured buckets isn't practical in many cases, sometimes the buckets would be overflowing and other times they won't be filled up all the way. The problem often seems to be the slightly empty buckets and not all the potential work being lost as overflow from the full ones. Hopefully that makes sense. The trouble is, this requires accountability and trust in employees that managers and HR departments find difficult.

Being able to take time off and not be forced to work rigid hours seems to be a better approach than simply working less. Ideally people should be hungry for work, they need to be enabled to do so in a fulfilling way.