Extreme Jobs: In this week’s feature segment, Paul Michelman speaks with Sylvia Ann Hewlett, co-author of the highly provocative “Extreme Jobs: The Dangerous Allure of the 70-Hour Workweek,” featured in the December issue of Harvard Business Review. Today’s overachieving professionals labor longer, take on more responsibility, and earn more than the workaholics of yore. They hold what Hewlett and co-author Carolyn Buck Luce call “extreme jobs,” which entail workweeks of 60 or more hours and have at least five of ten characteristics–such as tight deadlines and lots of travel–culled from the authors’ detailed research into the phenomenon. Indeed, what emerges from their research is a complex picture of the all-consuming career–rewarding in many ways, but not without significant danger to both individuals and society.
Extreme Jobs In Brief: In our HBR In Brief segment, we’ll explore some additional ideas from the HBR article.
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