(2017-04-30) A Growing Number Of People Think Their Job Is Useless Time To Rethink The Meaning Of Work

A growing number of people think their job is useless. Time to rethink the meaning of work

In a 2013 survey of 12,000 professionals by the Harvard Business Review, half said they felt their job had no “meaning and significance,” and an equal number were unable to relate to their company’s mission, while another poll among 230,000 employees in 142 countries showed that only 13% of workers actually like their job. A recent poll among Brits revealed that as many as 37% think they have a job that is utterly useless.

They have, what anthropologist David Graeber refers to as, “bullshit jobs”.