The Workday “Dead Zone” is a Fake Problem

But let’s be very clear: those aren’t real problems. They’re problems with perspective — and indicative of an organizational structure that privileges the exceptional requests and convenience of those with power over the everyday needs of everyone else.

That might just sound like a workplace%2C but it also sounds like an unhealthy one: one where workers are less happy%2C where quit rates are higher%2C where burnout is a bigger problem%2C where it’s harder to excel or even just survive as a person with caregiving responsibilities%2C where having people scroll Twitter until their eyes burn because their brain can’t do anything creative is just “the way things are.”