Stepsero: Navigating Modern Work

#97: The freedom to overwork

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For most of history, workplaces controlled people by telling them what they couldn't do. Today the control works differently, by removing all restrictions and letting people push themselves to their own limits. In this conversation, Mark Orlic unpacks what philosopher Byung-Chul Han calls "The Burnout Society" where individuals are both victim and perpetrator of their own exhaustion. We also…