Do We Have to Work?

A powerful reconsideration of our cultural relationship to work and workplaces, asking provocative questions about the role of work in our personal and collective lives. Tracing the massive shifts in workplace expectations and culture following the COVID pandemic, the onset of AI technology, evolving climate change conditions, and changing cultural ideas around compensation and benefits, author Matthew Taylor suggests we are entering a new era of work—one that may see many Americans working less, and prioritizing work less in their lives. How can we make work something generative and creative? How can we turn it from drudgery to creativity? How can we work not just less but also differently? These and many other pressing contemporary questions are explored in this thoughtful text. 

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