More and more people are working from their own sofa, the coffee shop, or from one of the new flexible work centres with the look of a living room. This offers more freedom and autonomy, but demands more self-control and talent for organisation, and makes employees into "entrepreneurs within the enterprise". The pressure is increasing; many are dropping out, and not by choice. Burn-out is one of the symptoms of a performance-obsessed society. Fifty percent of today's jobs will become automated in the next 20 years. And it isn't just monotonous, purely physical roles that will be affected, but increasingly those of traditional knowledge workers, such as doctors, university professors and journalists.
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