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[Schulte''s] a detective in a murder mystery: Who killed America''s leisure time, and how do we get it back?Lev Grossman, Time


When award-winning journalist Brigid Schulte, a harried mother of two, realized she was living a life of all work and no play, she decided to find out why she felt so overwhelmed. This book is the story of what she discoveredand of how her search for answers became a journey toward a life of less stress and more leisure.
Schulte''s findings are illuminating, puzzling, and, at times, maddening: Being overwhelmed is even affecting the size of our brains. But she also encounters signs of real progressevidence that what the ancient Greeks called the good life is attainable after all. Schulte talks to companies who are inventing a new kind of workplace; travels to countries where policies support office cultures that don''t equate shorter hours with laziness (and where people actually get more done); meets couples who have figure

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      Publisher Picador USA
      Published 1 March 2015
      ISBN-13 9781250062383
      978-1250062383
      ISBN-10 1250062381

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      [Schulte''s] a detective in a murder mystery: Who killed America''s leisure time, and how do we get it back?Lev Grossman, Time


      When award-winning journalist Brigid Schulte, a harried mother of two, realized she was living a life of all work and no play, she decided to find out why she felt so overwhelmed. This book is the story of what she discoveredand of how her search for answers became a journey toward a life of less stress and more leisure.
      Schulte''s findings are illuminating, puzzling, and, at times, maddening: Being overwhelmed is even affecting the size of our brains. But she also encounters signs of real progressevidence that what the ancient Greeks called the good life is attainable after all. Schulte talks to companies who are inventing a new kind of workplace; travels to countries where policies support office cultures that don''t equate shorter hours with laziness (and where people actually get more done); meets couples who have figure

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