Culture
The 9-to-5 Is Gone. What Replaced It Isn't Exactly What We Asked For.
Forty years ago, most Americans left work at work. There was no after-hours email, no Slack ping at 9pm, no blurred line between the kitchen table and the conference room. Today's workday is more flexible than anything workers in the 1980s could have imagined — but flexibility and freedom aren't always the same thing.