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Take Back Your Time
Book

Take Back Your Time

Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America

Berrett-Koehler, 2003 plus...

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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Applicable

Recommendation

John De Graaf, a documentary film producer and writer, has collected 30 short articles by various experts on overworked, time-impoverished Americans who lack time for leisure and family life. Having pinpointed the problem, he shows the solutions - alternatives used to give people more leisure time in other industrialized countries. He demonstrates that a more balanced life is more healthy and more productive. De Graaf carefully organized the articles around different themes, beginning with identifying the issue and then showing what to do individually, in the workplace and in society as a whole. While many article collections suffer from being overly academic or repetitive, this collection is targeted to the general reader and the content is quite varied, so it doesn’t feel duplicative, even when writers touch on similar topics. getAbstract.com recommends this to all businesspeople, from harried top executives to their overworked assistants. And if you don’t have time to read it, you need it most of all.

Take-Aways

  • Americans work longer hours and more days than the citizens of any other Western industrialized country.
  • U.S. workers have little choice but to work long hours, or their employers will find other employees.
  • Those who work long hours lack family time and suffer health-threatening stress.

About the Author

John De Graaf is co-author of the best-selling book Affluenza and a documentary television producer, who produced the popular PBS specials Affluenza and Running Out of Time. He is the co-chair of the Public Policy Committee for the Simplicity Forum, dedicated to making life simpler, and is the national coordinator for Take Back Your Time Day.


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