![Sign up for my FREE newsletter! - https://www.compoundeddaily.com/<br /><br />------<br /><br />#history #business #work <br /><br />Link To Our Other Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/HowMoneyWorks<br /><br />Written By: Sam<br /><br />Video Created By: <br />Svibe Multimedia Studio<br />Editor: Cardan<br />Media Gatherer: Andrea Rivas<br /><br />Footage Courtesy of: Getty Images<br /><br />Music Provided By: Epidemic Sound<br /><br />📩 Business Inquiries ➡️ sponsors@worksmedia.group<br /><br />-----<br /><br />The future of work is about to change. At least, for some people.<br />Over the last few decades, the 9-to-5 has been ridiculed for its dehumanising aspects thanks<br />to the iconography of cubicles, employee of the month portraits and office life. [1]<br />The image is now better nowadays, even with open plan offices and free Foosball tables!<br />That’s why for some, the 40-hour work week is a false reality, manufactured by exploitative<br />industries who base their reasoning on a society which no longer exists.<br />For others, it’s a sign of stability and prosperity which we should be thankful for now that<br />technology has become a great equaliser.<br />But whether you think the gig economy [2] will usher in financial utopia or economic<br />catastrophe, there’s one thing we can agree on: the 9-to-5 is a culmination of humankind’s<br />fusion with politics, economics and labour.<br />If you don’t know where it came from, you won’t know where the labour market is going.<br /><br />- Sources - <br /><br />1. https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/09/success/work-culture-9-to-5-curious-<br />consumer/index.html<br />2. https://hbr.org/2018/03/thriving-in-the-gig-economy<br />3. https://www.historyextra.com/period/ancient-greece/slavery-ancient-greece-life-<br />society/<br />4. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-13260-5_3<br />5. https://www.britannica.com/money/topic/serfdom<br />6. https://ruthjohnston.com/AllThingsMedieval/?p=125<br />7. https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Timeline-Industrial-<br />Revolution/<br />8. https://dudsonmuseum.vast.org.uk/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-factory-worker/<br />9. https://www.historyskills.com/classroom/year-9/year-9-child-labour-reading/<br />10. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/americas-company-towns-then-and-now-<br />180956382/<br />11. https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/henry-ford<br />12. https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/haymarket-riot<br />13. https://hbr.org/2020/07/a-brief-history-of-the-modern-office<br />14. https://melbourneinstitute.unimelb.edu.au/news/news/australians-happy-working-<br />from-home,-men-and-women-are-looking-to-upskill,-but-young-people-feeling-the-<br />pinch<br />15. https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/news-only-i-get-canceled-mrbeast-responds-<br />company-town-comparisons-buying-houses-employees-neighborhood](https://media.thebusinessprofessor.com/wp-content/plugins/youtube-feed-pro/img/placeholder.png)
#history #business #work
The future of work is about to change. At least, for some people.
Over the last few decades, the 9-to-5 has been ridiculed for its dehumanising aspects thanks
to the iconography of cubicles, employee of the month portraits and office life. [
The image is now better nowadays, even with open plan offices and free Foosball tables!
That’s why for some, the 40-hour work week is a false reality, manufactured by exploitative
industries who base their reasoning on a society which no longer exists.
For others, it’s a sign of stability and prosperity which we should be thankful for now that
technology has become a great equaliser.
But whether you think the gig economy will usher in financial utopia or economic
catastrophe, there’s one thing we can agree on: the 9-to-5 is a culmination of humankind’s
fusion with politics, economics and labour.
If you don’t know where it came from, you won’t know where the labour market is going.