Factor in 8 hours for sleep, and that bring me to a sobering fact

Add in the 8+ hours spent at the office, which adds up to 11 hours per day. That’s 3 hours a day or spent getting to and from work. Then I would spend an hour driving back home at the end of the day. When I was working in the office five days a week, I used to get up at 6:30 AM, spend an hour getting ready, drive an hour to the office, and start work at 8:30 AM. We spend half our lives in a crappy office building Office work culture leads to pointless “ busy work.”.

We spend way too much time in the office.Here’s the thing about working 9–5 in an office The problem with the 9–5 office work structure In this article, I discuss the two steps to transform our concept of work getting out of the office and killing the 9–5 work structure. Spotify’s new Working From Anywhere policy is a massive leap forward towards creating a workforce that is more happy, productive, and content. Why can't workers have their cake and eat it too? Why can’t we have a steady 9–5 paycheck without spending most of our waking lives driving to or sitting in an office building? We can either choose a steady paycheck and an arbitrary and inefficient 9–5 office work structure or entrepreneurship, which grants the freedom to work when and where we want but is a stressful way to earn a living. I’ve always been frustrated by the trade-off we have been forced to make as workers. There is no greater example of this than the trend of how and where we work. They even went so far as to say they would support employees with a co-working membership if they chose to work remotely but still wanted an office.Īs I’ve discussed in the past, the pandemic has acted as an accelerant and pushed many trends in the economy forward a decade in the span of a year. Last week Spotify announced their “ Working From Anywhere” plan, allowing workers to choose to work at the office, home, or wherever they like.

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