‘Never hire anyone that’s looking for work life balance’: CEO under fire for LinkedIn ‘wisdom’

I’m going to come out and say it: Loving what you do (for work) is a luxury. But even if you’re a statistics enthusiast or a strategy geek, chances are you don’t want to spend all your time working. That’s where having a work/life balance comes in. The concept, to many, is pretty novel. It’s …
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‘Never hire anyone that’s looking for work life balance’: CEO under fire for problematic LinkedIn ‘wisdom’

I’m going to come out and say it: Loving what you do (for work) is a luxury. But even if you’re a statistics enthusiast or a strategy geek, chances are you don’t want to spend all your time working. That’s where having a work/life balance comes in. The concept, to many, is pretty novel. It’s …
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Exhausted Workers Fantasize About Abolishing the Five-Day Work Week

The five day work week seems pretty reasonable to us because it’s all we’ve ever known. And before there were laws that protected workers, everyone was unarguably worse off. So why should we complain now? Well, because it’s completely sensible to hope for a better world, where people don’t have to use what little free …
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People Debate Whether It’s Possible to Work Full Time and Still Have Time to Live

The ‘work-life balance’ platitude is pretty rich considering the fact that the average full-time worker spends the better part of each weekday at their job. Sure, there’s an extra handful of hours in the evenings to make dinner and maybe even do a few chores, but then that leaves a measly two days a week …
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‘Unpopular Opinion’ About Working Weekends Gets Roasted by the Internet

Another day, another terrible Twitter take. The state of how we work has been a major topic of discussion as the world attempts to return to normalcy as Covid-19 seems to be less of a threat for many countries. There have been many think-pieces and Twitter threads about working remotely and fair wages. Then there …
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