The anti-work movement

Maybe this is happening to you, maybe it's a conversation you and some of your friends and colleagues are having, but there is a rethink about the purpose of work and how it is structured and operates.

With the rapid workplace changes throughout COVID, this sense of dissatisfaction is manifesting in ways beyond the great resignation - or whatever you prefer to call it. I know of people who have withdrawn from the labour market, are switching roles and organisation, are taking extended leave, or are now working for themselves. And that is only on the individual level.

There are organisations, like one subreddit (a forum in the online platform Reddit, devoted to a single topic) called Antiwork that has seen it's subscribers go from 100,000 in March 2020 to 1.7 million. This group says, "We're not against effort, labor, or being productive. We're against jobs as they are structured under capitalism and the state: Against exploitative economic relations, against hierarchical social relations at the workplace".

What's ONE THING you have noticed in conversations you're having about the purpose of work?