Meetings, Clearly, Can Take Place Anywhere, And

We Have To Wonder Whether Digital Technology, Rather Than Making It Easier To Communicate, Is Actually Doing The Opposite. We Now Sit Alone At A Keyboard, Firing Off Zeros And Ones Into The Ether. Offices Are Silent.

Working Is Bad Enough In The Winter, But In The Summer It Can Become Completely Intolerable. Stuck In Airless Offices, Every Fibre Of Our Being Seems To Cry Out For Freedom. We're Reminded Of Being Stuck In Double Maths While The Birds Sing Outside.

What I've Found In Working Less Is You Start To Get A Bit More Involved In The More Real Politics, Which Is Local Politics That Affect What's Going On In Your Own Community.

These Days We Seem More Bound To Our Bosses Than Ever Before. We Even Identify Our Own Selves With The Jobs We Do: "what Do You Do?" Is The First Question We Ask Each Other At Parties, As If A Job Title Could Express A Fundamental Truth About Our Personality.

What Seems Extraordinary Is That The Richest Countries In The World, In Terms Of Economic Output, Are The Ones Where We Work Hardest. You Would Have Thought That The End Of All This Innovation, Technological Advancement, And Financial Wizardry Should Be To Create Less Work, Not More Of It.