Demanding bosses, impossible workloads, 24/7 email – no wonder many employees feel they have no time outside work to find loveThu 15 Apr 2021 05.00 EDTYoga brought her a sense of peace and started her journey of self-inquiry; eventually, she decided to bring those benefits to others by becoming a yoga teacher. She studied for more than eight years before qualifying. That was about 10 years ago; since then, she has been teaching in Oxford, her home town.At first, the work felt like a privilege, even though she was working a lot and not earning much. “There was a sense that, if you gave it...…Demanding bosses, impossible workloads, 24/7 email – no wonder many employees feel they have no time outside work to find loveThu 15 Apr 2021 05.00 EDTYoga brought her a sense of peace and started her journey of self-inquiry; eventually, she decided to bring those benefits to others by becoming a yoga teacher. She studied for more than eight years before qualifying. That was about 10 years ago; since then, she has been teaching in Oxford, her home town.At first, the work felt like a privilege, even though she was working a lot and not earning much. “There was a sense that, if you gave it...WW…

Marathe433/Wikimedia Commons Former Reply All co-host P.J. Vogt at Gimlet Media’s Brooklyn offices, in January 2016 The artisan and socialist famously identified three hopes that make work worth doing: hope of rest, hope of product, and hope of pleasure in the work itself. The last one and the first one are fairly self-explanatory, but the middle one is a question that still remains central to many of today’s creative workers. Will they, in fact, have any control over the thing they create?As workers at Gimlet Media, a narrative podcast production company based in Brooklyn and owned by the...…Marathe433/Wikimedia Commons Former Reply All co-host P.J. Vogt at Gimlet Media’s Brooklyn offices, in January 2016 The artisan and socialist famously identified three hopes that make work worth doing: hope of rest, hope of product, and hope of pleasure in the work itself. The last one and the first one are fairly self-explanatory, but the middle one is a question that still remains central to many of today’s creative workers. Will they, in fact, have any control over the thing they create?As workers at Gimlet Media, a narrative podcast production company based in Brooklyn and owned by the...WW…

Photo by Johan Fantenberg, courtesy of Flickr. Photo by Johan Fantenberg, courtesy of Flickr. May Day has a of worker unrest behind it, even if the United States doesn’t technically celebrate International Workers’ Day. The day first became a working person’s holiday after the movement for an eight-hour workday, in 1886, set off a strike wave that roiled the country. May 1 was the day the strikes kicked off, though it was the subsequent violence at Chicago’s Haymarket Square on May 4 that led to a and an international outcry over the execution of several labor leaders. COVID-19...…Photo by Johan Fantenberg, courtesy of Flickr. Photo by Johan Fantenberg, courtesy of Flickr. May Day has a of worker unrest behind it, even if the United States doesn’t technically celebrate International Workers’ Day. The day first became a working person’s holiday after the movement for an eight-hour workday, in 1886, set off a strike wave that roiled the country. May 1 was the day the strikes kicked off, though it was the subsequent violence at Chicago’s Haymarket Square on May 4 that led to a and an international outcry over the execution of several labor leaders. COVID-19...WW…