Overtime 👩🏻💻👨🏻💻
"I put my heart and my soul into my work and have lost my mind in the process."
—Vincent van Gogh
> late to the resistance | clocked
We can measure educational achievement.
We can measure the economic impact of small businesses.
We can measure worker productivity at Amazon warehouses. 📈
- But science can't prove an obvious relationship between showing up late to work and showing up lazy to work.
That's because there is no meaningful correlation between laziness and tardiness.
Civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. was famously late to everything. President Barack Obama was routinely late while in the White House.
We're not just obsessed with proving ourselves by how well we can read a clock in America.
- We’re obsessed with humble-bragging about our overtime hours worked.
According to The Atlantic, America's tradition of overworking to impress others hurts more than it helps productivity:
>> "We mistakenly believe that more hours will always increase output while ignoring the clear evidence: The secret to being an effective worker is not working too hard."
Americans will brag on Facebook about being the most present of parents, the best of dads, the greatest of moms.
Then they'll brag a few hours later about being exhausted from working 80 hours a week.
How is there time for both?
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