From the article: The issue in this evolution is not how many hours you’re now asked to work but the volume of work you’re assigned at any one time...The centr

From the article: The issue in this evolution is not how many hours you’re now asked to work but the volume of work you’re assigned at any one time...The central goal of Slow Productivity is to keep an individual worker’s volume at a sustainable level. I wonder: is the expectation that young people work at a more frenetic pace part of the reason anxiety and depression trend up from adolescence until mid-adulthood?[1] If so, maybe we should rethink the idea that young people should be working at a faster speed. [1] "A slight trend for an increase in the severity of both anxiety and depression from adolescence to middle adulthood, and then a slight decline in older adulthood was found." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31190198/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31190198/