Are long hours the norm that should be celebrated? Or should we embrace AI tools that help boost productivity and give opportunities for better work-life balance? In the legal profession, thoughts like these often fly in the face of colleagues and overlords who say “if you don’t work on Saturday, don’t even bother coming in on Sunday”. For many, once boundaries have eroded “work is all that is left“.
“I have a friend who’s a serial entrepreneur and whose latest entrepreneurial venture, his tenth or eleventh, has proven to be ‘the charm.’…he’s never worked fewer hours in his life. And he’s very quick to brag about this. Which I find rare and refreshing. In my experience, when speaking to people about their jobs, for the most part workers in America do the exact opposite: they brag about how many hours they work, thumping their chests with pride harder and harder with each additional hour they work or are forced to work.”
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