The Weekend Effect: The Life-Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork

Name: The Weekend Effect: The Life-Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork
Rating: 3.3333332538604736 (3 reviews)

Katrina Onstad

May 2017 · HarperCollins

3 reviews

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About this ebook

Encroaching work demands—coupled with domestic chores, overbooked schedules, and the incessant pinging of our devices—have taken a toll on what used to be our free time: the weekend. With no space to tune out and recharge, every aspect of our lives is suffering: our health is deteriorating, our social networks (the face-to-face kind) are dissolving, and our productivity is down. The notion of working less and living more, once considered an American virtue, has given way to the belief that you must be "on" 24/7.

Award-winning journalist Katrina Onstad, pushes back against this all-work, no-fun ethos. Tired of suffering from Sunday night letdown, she digs into the history, positive psychology, and cultural anthropology of the great missing weekend and how we can revive it.

Onstad follows the trail of people, companies, and countries who are vigilantly protecting their time off for joy, adventure, and most important, purpose. Filled with personal and professional inspiration, The Weekend Effect is a thoughtful, well-researched argument to take back those precious 48 hours, and ultimately, to save ourselves.

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3 reviews

John A Perazzo

April 1, 2024

Living in a leisure town and working in a leisure industry, this book is a helpful reminder to an old, old idea.

About the author

KATRINA ONSTAD is a multiple award–winning journalist whose work has appeared in the Globe and Mail , Chatelaine , the New York Times Magazine , the Guardian and Elle. Her critically lauded novels include How Happy to Be and Everybody Has Everything, which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award. Onstad lives in Toronto with her husband and two children.

KATRINA ONSTAD is a multiple award–winning journalist whose work has appeared in the Globe and Mail , Chatelaine , the New York Times Magazine , the Guardian and Elle. Her critically lauded novels include How Happy to Be and Everybody Has Everything, which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller...

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