Bret Devereaux

An idea I hold completely seriously is that the right to reasonable entertainment during working hours should be a labor issue and would meaningfully improve quality of life for employees in a huge range of job types

Any cashier or employee who sits behind a counter for hours at a time should have the right to 1) sit 2) read a book. Anybody who does relatively menial or on-call work that involves sitting at a computer should be able to stream or listen to music/podcasts. Etc etc

Jobs where you perfectly well *could* read, or watch TV, or whatever else, and still accomplish your work - but are forbidden from doing so - are asking you to sacrifice potentially years of your valuable time to management's empty ideas about professionalism or productivity.