Take Back Your Time
Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America
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Career & Self-Development
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- How and why Americans are so overworked and have little leisure time
- How workers in other countries balance work and leisure
- How to gain more time and balance in your life
Why you should read Take Back Your Time
John De Graaf, a documentary film producer and writer, has collected 30 short articles by various experts on overworked, time-impoverished Americans who lack time for leisure and family life. Having pinpointed the problem, he shows the solutions - alternatives used to give people more leisure time in other industrialized countries. He demonstrates that a more balanced life is more healthy and more productive. De Graaf carefully organized the articles around different themes, beginning with identifying the issue and then showing what to do individually, in the workplace and in society as a whole. While many article collections suffer from being overly academic or repetitive, this collection is targeted to the general reader and the content is quite varied, so it doesn’t feel duplicative, even when writers touch on similar topics. getAbstract.com recommends this to all businesspeople, from harried top executives to their overworked assistants. And if you don’t have time to read it, you need it most of all.
About the Author
John De Graaf is co-author of the best-selling book Affluenza and a documentary television producer, who produced the popular PBS specials Affluenza and Running Out of Time. He is the co-chair of the Public Policy Committee for the Simplicity Forum, dedicated to making life simpler, and is the national coordinator for Take Back Your Time Day.
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