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Thierry Nabeth

Meet the New Face of Diversity: The "Slacker" Millennial Guy -- HBR blog - 0 views

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    An important new study by Youngjoo Cha and Kim A. Weeden reports that the wage premium for "overwork"-working more than 50 hours a week-has risen sharply. In 1979, there was actually a wage penalty for overwork; but this turned into a wage premium after the mid-1990s. Because men tend to overwork more than women, the rising overwork premium raised men's wages more than women's, and has effectively erased the advantage women gained by increasing their higher education levels.
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    This mindset, created by the peculiar demography of upper-level management, is increasingly out of sync with most of the workforce. Younger men increasingly want schedules that work around family needs - just as women have been demanding for years.
Aurialie Jublin

The Complete Guide To Your Insane Working Hours | Fast Company - 0 views

  • “Because everyone demands instant gratification and instant connectivity,” says Goldman Sachs investment banker David Solomon, “there are no boundaries, no breaks.” Which translates into ridiculous hours.
  • So, together, the team came up with a solution: they started a job-sharing program where each person shared 20% of their job with another. That meant that subject expertise wouldn't be limited to a single person--and so if a fire needed to be put out, the job-sharing partner could jump in.
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    "WHY ARE WE WORKING RIDICULOUSLY LONG WEEKS? BECAUSE OF THE WAY WE MEASURE WORK, OUR CULTURAL HISTORY, AND HOW CONSTANTLY CONNECTED WE ARE. HERE'S HOW WE CAN FINALLY BREAK FREE."
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