How To Stop Working Long Hours

How To Stop Working Long Hours

Proven ways to free yourself from the hamster wheel

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If you’re reading this, it has probably dawned on you that long hours at work aren’t productive—in fact, they can be very counter-productive! Instead of seeing working late as a badge of honor, we have collected some titles that can help you understand how to break that toxic cycle and still be committed to your job.

How To Stop Working Long Hours

Proven ways to free yourself from the hamster wheel

It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
Reclaim your work-life balance
21 min4.0
How to Do Nothing
How to Do Nothing
Jenny Odell
Resisting the Attention Economy
19 min4.3
Less Doing, More Living
Less Doing, More Living
Ari Meisel
Make Everything in Life Easier
21 min3.7
168 Hours
168 Hours
Laura Vanderkam
You Have More Time Than You Think
21 min4.2
The 4 Day Week
The 4 Day Week
Andrew Barnes with Stephanie Jones
How the flexible work revolution can increase productivity, profitability, and wellbeing, and help create a sustainable future
25 min3.9
Do Pause
Do Pause
Robert Poynton
You Are Not a To Do List
18 min4.4
The No Asshole Rule
The No Asshole Rule
Robert I. Sutton
Building a Civilised Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
13 min4.0
Designing Your Work Life
Designing Your Work Life
Bill Burnett, Dave Evans
How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness at Work
23 min4.2
Four Seconds
Four Seconds
Peter Bregman
All the Time You Need to Stop Counter-Productive Habits and Get the Results You Want
15 min4.0
Big Feelings
Big Feelings
Mollie West Duffy and Liz Fosslien
How to be Okay When Things Are Not Okay
25 min4.2

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