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The weekend effect : the life-changing benefits of taking time off and challenging the cult of overwork / Katrina Onstad.

by Onstad, Katrina.

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Work-life balance.

Quality of work life.

Work -- Psychological aspects.

Job satisfaction.

Quality of life.

Conduct of life.

9781443453448 (hc.)

9781443449250 (pbk.)

9781443449250 (pbk.)

First Canadian edition.

291 pages ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-291).

"The weekend - the once-sacred forty-eight hours of leisure - has been lost to overbooked schedules, pinging devices and encroaching work demands. Many of us are working more hours than we did a decade ago, and worse, we allow those hours to slide over seven days a week, giving us no respite to tune out and recharge. We don't need the research to tell us that this is hurting us. Our health is deteriorating, our social networks (the face-to-face kind) are weak and our productivity is down. It wasn't long ago that working less and living more was considered a virtue. So what happened? Journalist Katrina Onstad digs into the history, the positive psychology and the cultural anthropology of the great missing weekend. She follows people, companies and countries who are vigilantly protecting their weekends for joy, for adventure and, most importantly, for meaning. A search for the lost weekend and how we can get it back."--Provided by publisher.

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