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White-Collar Work Is Just Meetings Now - The Atlantic

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The meeting-industrial complex has grown to the point that communications has eclipsed creativity as the central skill of modern work. Listen to this article 00:00 07:20 Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. This is Work in Progress, a newsletter about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems. Sign up here. The paradox of the modern white-collar worker is that she is simultaneously more and less alone than her analogue in any previous generation. On a given weekday, the share of the labor force working from home is roughly four times higher than it was before the pandemic. At no other point in modern history have so many workers spent so much time in a room by themselves during the weekday. But how much of that time is truly alone—in the absence of other people’s faces and voices? By some measures, our colleagues are with us more than ever, whether or not we’d like it that way. The share of the typical white-collar workday spe

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 7:20 This is Work in Progress, a newsletter about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems. Sign up here . The paradox of the modern white-collar worker is that she is simultaneously more and less alone than her analogue in any previous generation. On a given weekday, the share of the labor force working from home is roughly four times higher than it was before the pandemic. At no other point in modern history have so many workers spent so much time in a room by themselves during the weekday. But how much of that time is truly alone —in t

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