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# Returning to the Office and the Future of Work
- URL: https://werd.io/returning-to-the-office-and-the-future-of-work/
- Published: 2021-09-23T21:28:03.000Z
- Updated: 2021-09-23T21:28:03.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

"Wage labor can harm us in subtle and insidious ways, too. The American ideal of a good life earned through work is “disciplinary,” according to the Marxist feminist political philosopher Kathi Weeks, a professor at Duke and often-cited critic of the modern work ethic. “It constructs docile subjects,” she wrote in her 2011 book, “The Problem With Work.” Day to day, that means we feel pressure to become the people our bosses, colleagues, clients and customers want us to be. When that pressure conflicts with our human needs and well-being, we can fall into burnout and despair."

\[[Link](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/09/23/opinion/covid-return-to-work-rto.html)\]