He’s taking back 1.5 of his 24 hours.

We all wish we had more hours in the day to do the things we actually want to do. So many of your waking hours consist of doing things for your boss, and that is nowhere near as fun as doing things for yourself. If you would rather look at a spreadsheet for an hour a day than have lunch with friends or read for pleasure, you’re a different breed of human. 

How can we make more time in the day when so much of it is filled up? For starters, you can wake up a little earlier and go to bed a little later, creating more waking time, but sleeping less can come at the detriment of your health. You can turn off your phone more, so that you’re not wasting your life scrolling through short-form video content, but who wants to do that? You’ve got to cut out something pointless if you want more time to yourself, and finding that time is truly harder than it looks. 

The employee in this story decided he would give himself more time in the day by modeling European employees, who work less and take more PTO, which means they work 1.5 hours less a day than the average American employee, who is pressured to have a sigma grindset by every boss and manager they’ve ever had since they were teenagers. This guy decided that if he wasn’t going to have more vacation time, he was going to create it himself.