‘Busy’ is not a badge of honour

Working at a frenetic pace is a disease of the contemporary workplace. Boasting about it is positively perverse.
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The conversation is familiar to us all – you ask someone how they are doing and the response is ‘busy’. On the rare occasions your interlocutor isn’t implying they are stretched, they are likely to respond ‘I feel like I’m not doing enough’.

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Madeleine Dore
About the Author
Madeleine Dore is a freelance writer and founder of Extraordinary Routines, an interview project exploring the intersection between creativity and imperfection. She is the previous Deputy Editor at ArtsHub. Follow her on Twitter at @RoutineCurator