This is an interesting conversation. As someone currently experiencing the downsides of hustle culture… burnout. I was a little bemused to hear Steve had dropped to not a minute more than 40-45 hours per week. I guess that might be not much depending on your baseline, in my country you can’t compel a employee to work more than 37.5 hours per week. Paid breaks take that up to 40 hours. People often work more than this of course.
I get that downshifting is a relative term though it feels like much of this conversation was still embedded in an extreme hustle culture, so the new norms being suggested are still extremely busy.
That's interesting Mark. Where do you live? In the US, it's very common for anyone ambitious to be working upwards of 40-45 hours a week. 8 hours a day is seen as "the minimum" or standard work day for anyone with a job.
I agree that the term can be applied in the relative sense
New Zealand. The normalisation of hustle culture has creeped through many societies, including mine. My sense is that it is illness, it out of balance, from a deep sense of not enoughness. We have the NYTimes promoting micro breaks of 10 seconds! Cultural programming. Bless.
My sense is that we didn’t incarnate to prove our worth through over work. Where does self improvement, introspection, self care and spiritual growth exist in a society conditioned to work all of the time?
In a conversation about downshifting (less sure of what that means) working a “standard” number of hours is worth some curiosity.
This is an interesting conversation. As someone currently experiencing the downsides of hustle culture… burnout. I was a little bemused to hear Steve had dropped to not a minute more than 40-45 hours per week. I guess that might be not much depending on your baseline, in my country you can’t compel a employee to work more than 37.5 hours per week. Paid breaks take that up to 40 hours. People often work more than this of course.
I get that downshifting is a relative term though it feels like much of this conversation was still embedded in an extreme hustle culture, so the new norms being suggested are still extremely busy.
That's interesting Mark. Where do you live? In the US, it's very common for anyone ambitious to be working upwards of 40-45 hours a week. 8 hours a day is seen as "the minimum" or standard work day for anyone with a job.
I agree that the term can be applied in the relative sense
New Zealand. The normalisation of hustle culture has creeped through many societies, including mine. My sense is that it is illness, it out of balance, from a deep sense of not enoughness. We have the NYTimes promoting micro breaks of 10 seconds! Cultural programming. Bless.
My sense is that we didn’t incarnate to prove our worth through over work. Where does self improvement, introspection, self care and spiritual growth exist in a society conditioned to work all of the time?
In a conversation about downshifting (less sure of what that means) working a “standard” number of hours is worth some curiosity.