Monthly Archives: August, 2007
Forty-Hour Workweek? (Part 2)
Also see: Forty-Hour Workweek? (Part 1) In yesterday’s post, I examined how the amount of time many of us are losing to our jobs is a lot more than we might have guessed. But what about the other side of it? How much time do we have on a typical weeknight when we are not [...]
Forty-Hour Workweek?
So, you think the standard work-week in the US is 40 hours, and everything else is our time, right? Think again. When you factor in smashing you alarm in the morning, showering, getting ready, driving to your place of employment, your mandatory lunch “break,” and driving back at the end of the day, your job [...]
Myers Briggs and Work
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a personality testing system that has been around for quite some time. While it is not as highly regarded in the psychology community as the Big-Five and has not shown as high a reliability as the latter (according to the wikipedia site) it does have some interesting points with regard [...]
Sedentary Workers
Where do people spend the most time being inactive? Here’s a hint for you: it is not in front of the TV after a day at the office. No, it’s actually AT the office. Many of us work 8, 9 or more hours a day and spend a great majority of that time just sitting. [...]
Optional Work
Here is a quick question for my readers to ponder: Imagine that you had enough money in the bank so that if you wanted to you’d never have to work another day in your life. What would you do? Would you continue the path you are on? Would you retire and move to Tahiti? Would [...]
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