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# politics
Today’s typical working hours are a result of politics, compromise, and ideology. Now, some experts are finally asking what science says is the perfect work week, and why.
# tech
Sometimes, jobs we're told are automated really aren't. They simply hide the humans making your request possible. And that's going to backfire when machines really do take over.
# tech
Futurists once dreamed of an automated, leisurely utopia. Our failure to live up to their visions is taking a massive toll on our health and politics.
# science
Science proves that open offices are the worst environments to work, offsetting their low price with huge hits to employee productivity and health.
# tech
Marissa Meyer appears to have learned nothing from her tenure at Yahoo and it clearly shows in her latest interview.
# politics
Baby Boomers are very upset with Millennials for trying to make work more meaningful and comfortable after watching them suffer.
# health
A study tracking the benefits of standing desks shows no difference in health outcomes between sitting and standing at the office.
# tech
The anger at Marissa Meyer has nothing to do with whether her employees will have to spend more time at the office and everything with why they're being corralled into their cubicles.