To tackle low productivity, we must fix our broken relationship with work

To tackle low productivity, we must fix our broken relationship with work
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Peter Griffin
If you feel like the end of the working year can’t come quickly enough, you aren’t alone.Computer maker HP recently surveyed 15,000 knowledge workers across 12 countries and found that just 27% of respondents felt they had a healthy relationship with their work. New Zealanders weren’t among those surveyed, but Aussies stood in as a reasonable proxy and the number for them was lower than the global average – a mere 22%.The upheaval of the pandemic led to an inevitable fixation on where we work. I can’t count ho...

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