Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You Work

by Leslie Perlow

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Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow documents a Boston Consulting Group experiment with "Predictable Time Off" and argues that the always-on work culture emerged haphazardly, not by design — and can be undone the same way.

Published:: 2012
Pages:: 272

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