Business | Bartleby
Work, the wasted years
Logging in, deleting emails, mistyping things. It all adds up
Few things are more depressing than estimates of how much time people spend on a specific activity over the course of their lives. You know the sort of thing: you will spend one-third of your life asleep, almost a decade looking at your phone and four months deciding what to watch on streaming services.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Work, the wasted years”
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