Fierce Resources: Work to Live? Not Here, We Don’t

This week’s Fierce Resource was first published on the Bloomberg website and was written by Megan McArdle.

Work to Live? Not Here, We Don’t reacts to a recent article in The New Yorker titled, The Cult of Work, and adds that in addition to the common reasons why people have a hard time obtaining a work life balance, many jobs have become so specialized there is a larger penalty for handing off work to others.

“When people complain about work-family balance, they frequently complain that two people who each work 30 hours a week are paid much less than half as much as one person working 60 hours a week. Surowiecki notes that it’s more expensive to hire two people (benefits, desks, etc.). But that’s not the only cost. In specialized jobs, two people who are each working 30 hours a week may actually be much less productive than one working 60 — even if working 60 hours makes each of those hours much less productive than they could be.”

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