How work became an inescapable hellhole

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Wired / Anne Helen Petersen / Sep 22, 2020

“All that digitally enabled flexibility really means digitally enabling more work—with fewer boundaries.” —SS

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Scire, Sarah. "How work became an inescapable hellhole." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 22 Sep. 2020. Web. 21 Mar. 2025.

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Scire, S. (2020, Sep. 22). How work became an inescapable hellhole. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved March 21, 2025, from https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/technology-has-created-a-nonstop-barrage-of-notifications-and-interactions-six-months-into-a-pandemic-its-worse-than-ever/

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Scire, Sarah. "How work became an inescapable hellhole." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified September 22, 2020. Accessed March 21, 2025. https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/technology-has-created-a-nonstop-barrage-of-notifications-and-interactions-six-months-into-a-pandemic-its-worse-than-ever/.

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