Think Again: Why Americans are so burned out — and how to fix your work-life balance

再想一想:为什么美国人如此疲惫不堪——以及如何平衡工作与生活

Apple News In Conversation

2022-09-03

25 分钟
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This is an episode from our archives. It’s re-airing as part of our new series, Think Again, a guide to reimagining work, home, relationships, and more. How’s your relationship to your job? For a lot of people, work-life balance has felt far from perfect for a while. Apple News In Conversation host Shumita Basu speaks with Anne Helen Petersen about her book Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working From Home, coauthored with Charlie Warzel. It’s all about how we can adjust the role our jobs play in our lives and focus more time and energy on the things we care about the most. Below are excerpts from the interview.
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  • Hi there.

  • As you may know, over the past few weeks, In Conversation has been running a series called Think Again.

  • It's all about how to reimagine work, home and more.

  • Today, as part of the series, we're bringing you a special episode from our archives about our relationship to work.

  • Hope you enjoy it.

  • This is In Conversation from Apple News.

  • I'm Shemitah Basu.

  • Today, how to rethink the way you work.

  • How's your relationship to your job?

  • Does it feel healthy, sustainable?

  • For a lot of people, it got worse during the pandemic.

  • One survey in 2021 found more than a third of the men and nearly half of the women polled said that they often felt burned out at work.

  • Another poll found American workers are some of the most stressed in the world.

  • So what's going wrong here?

  • Burnout is a reaction to growth capitalism.

  • It is a reaction to feeling like you are unstable and don't have a safety net.

  • And the only way that you're going to find stability is by working all the time.

  • That's the journalist Anne Helen Peterson.

  • She thinks and writes a lot about work and our relationship to it, including why for so many people, your work has become your entire identity.

  • And I think that a way to, to glamorize working all the time is to say, I'm doing what I love, right?