The most indispensible jobs (in children’s books)
Spoiler Alert: PR and marketing aren’t on the list. So why are we so hysterical about checking our phones 24-7—even on the holidays?
CEOs pressure their executives to put in more time. In turn, executives pressure managers who then pressure their employees, with smartphones keeping us tethered to the office 24-7.
Meanwhile, big-box retailers are opening their doors on Thanksgiving because shoppers can’t possibly wait until midnight on Friday to start shopping.
Tim Kreider described this busyness trap in a recent column for The New York Times—a column that also inspired a PR Daily contribution from Melissa Johnson—in which Kreider describes “busy” as the default response whenever you ask someone how they’re doing, even if that busyness is a result of self-imposed deadlines and activities.
Meanwhile, “family-friendly” and “work-life balance” are no longer talked about in the modern workplace because of what Tim Kreider calls a “pretense of indispensability.”
According to Kreider:
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