Forget busyness. Forget multitasking. The new trend in the world of work – especially for younger workers – is slow work.
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#1. Burnout? Ha. Enter the era of “slow work.”
On TikTok, the #CorporateTok genre is growing fast. Scroll through the post, and you’ll find young employees critical of traditional workplace norms, workers resistant of back-to-the-office mandates…and advocates for the slow work movement.
The antithesis of busyness or multitasking, the slow work movement encourages workers to redefine what they see as productivity and embrace their creativity and goals to the fullest It’s not just TikTok, either: workers have leaned into new concepts like the four-day work week and bleisure as they seek to re-examine their relationships with work. Read more at the Financial Times.