I saw an article float by a couple days back about how the bigger cause of workplace stress is not believing in what you're doing, rather than difficulty/quantity of work... ring any bells? Can't find it now.
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My impression is that most models of job stress/strain tend to focus on a ratio of demands to resources. Difficulty, quantity of work are demands; meaningful work is one form of resources.
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Good line of thought. Though I'd say meaning is more of a function of resources than a primary resource. Like a yield rate from attention or something.
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Lots of work makes one tired.
One rests and recovers.
Lots of meaninglessness is an entirely different and more long term corrosively degrading story.
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it's not graeber's bullshit jobs thing is it?
strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs
it might be in the news a bit because he turned it into a book that was published last year
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