The Way Not Working Isn T Working Summary

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Tony Schwartz, in “The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working”, considers the workplace culture of U.S. workers to be a negative approach to working. The reason being, he argues, the damaging aspects of working constantly and losing valuable sleep in the process. Schwartz condemns the sacrificing of emotional and physical well-being that workers commit in return of being successful in their workplace. Tony Schwartz takes the correct approach by informing workers of the value of sleep and dangers of going without it.
A worker may keep a mindset with a misconception of sleep being easier and just a discomfort in sacrificing. Although sleep is easier to surrender than other requirements to the human body such as eating, it is just as required to sustain

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