Time Confetti and the Broken Promise of Leisure
We have more free time than ever before, but it’s so sliced and diced that we feel more time poor than ever. Here’s how to notice and overcome the time confetti in your life.
Ashley Whillans is an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. She researches how people navigate trade-offs between time and money. She earned her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of British Columbia. As a Burke Global Health Fellow at Harvard, her ongoing research examines the well-being benefits of reducing the burden of unpaid labor among the working poor.
We have more free time than ever before, but it’s so sliced and diced that we feel more time poor than ever. Here’s how to notice and overcome the time confetti in your life.
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