Idleness Allows You To Turn A Situation

My Hope Is That Flexible Working And Varying Shift Patterns Will Give Workers A Taste For Idling And That They Will Gradually Demand Greater Reductions In The Length Of The Working Week.

Meetings, Clearly, Can Take Place Anywhere, And Wouldn't It Be Nice To See Your Coworkers Lounging On The Grass With Their Shoes Off?

I've Given Up Email. Well, Almost. At The Weekend I Set Up One Of Those Auto-reply Messages, Informing My Correspondents That I Would No Longer Be Checking My Emails, And That Instead They Might Like To Call Or Write, As We Used To In The Olden Days.

The Siesta Provides A Delightful Detour From The Working Day And It Also Has A Practical Value As Far As Productivity Is Concerned. Winston Churchill Had A Good Long Siesta Every Day During The Second World War And He Said It Was The Thing That Enabled Him To Cope With The Pressure.

A Conclusion I’ve Come To At The Idler Is That It Starts With Retreating From Work But It’s Really About Making Work Into Something That Isn’t Drudgery And Slavery, And Then Work And Life Can Become One Thing.