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simdhan_f's review against another edition
3.0
The narrative framing of the this book is the COVID pandemic and how it's forced everyone to rethink work. This wasn't clear to me when choosing the book and I think important to know going into it. Though a well written and thought-out read, I don't think I was the target audience for this book and as such it fell a bit short of my expectations. This is perhaps due to the fact that I work at an organisation that already does a lot of what was suggested here, and as an individual I hold a lot of the more progressive views shared (though to some extent, not that progressive at all). I was hoping for more novel ideas on how to make and lead this change, whereas this book is more about asking questions, getting individuals to start thinking about what they want from their lives.
This book is far more suited to those trapped in corporate megastructures or general capitalist hellholes. If you are finding yourself beholden to your job and getting no satisfied from your work, this manifesto challenges long held beliefs about how you relate to your work and how your work relates to the world, and how everyone can do better. Would defo rate this higher if I didn't already know and believe in a what was shared.
This book is far more suited to those trapped in corporate megastructures or general capitalist hellholes. If you are finding yourself beholden to your job and getting no satisfied from your work, this manifesto challenges long held beliefs about how you relate to your work and how your work relates to the world, and how everyone can do better. Would defo rate this higher if I didn't already know and believe in a what was shared.
naimaella's review against another edition
4.0
Absolutely loved this.
The most substantive and thought-provoking thing I’ve read about the future of work. Elizabeth Uviebinené emphasises that since work changed along with pandemic, which merely accelerated changes that were already underway, we’ve barely skimmed the surface of what the changing nature of work means for our lives. Instead of thinking about how work has changed, we need to think about why. This time represents a very unique opportunity to redesign and reimagine our work lives.
Uviebinené manages to beautifully articulate fragments of thoughts I’ve been having over the last few months. I really resonated with Uviebinené’s chapter on community in a time of remote working and how cities need to change to accommodate the increasing time we spend at home.
The most substantive and thought-provoking thing I’ve read about the future of work. Elizabeth Uviebinené emphasises that since work changed along with pandemic, which merely accelerated changes that were already underway, we’ve barely skimmed the surface of what the changing nature of work means for our lives. Instead of thinking about how work has changed, we need to think about why. This time represents a very unique opportunity to redesign and reimagine our work lives.
Uviebinené manages to beautifully articulate fragments of thoughts I’ve been having over the last few months. I really resonated with Uviebinené’s chapter on community in a time of remote working and how cities need to change to accommodate the increasing time we spend at home.
bookedupandbusy's review against another edition
4.0
The Reset looks at how we worked and lived pre-pandemic, and how we may reset our work, community and life culture, post pandemic.
This book is divided into 6 chapters: You, Culture, Business, Society, Community and City. It really highlighted changes in our world post 2020 and has made me reassess my own personal work-life balance.
I particularly enjoyed the chapters on how working from home and zoom meetings change our behaviours and the chapters on ‘burnout’. Elizabeth discusses how being busy was cool and how our routines made us over stressed and dangerously untested and how we are still experiencing burnout even working from home!
The discussions on work culture were eye opening. I always associated work culture with the freebies I received, however Elizabeth explains that culture should not be about what we get for free from companies, food, drink, lunches, haircuts etc. culture should be about how much a company personally invests in its employees.
I resonated with many of the themes in this inspiring book, including motherhood, women in the workplace and definitely that burnout. This book is both conversational and academic and a very easy read.
Elizabeth is the co-author of Slay In Your Lane & Loud Black Girls. I love her work and the fact that she is from Croydon!
This book is divided into 6 chapters: You, Culture, Business, Society, Community and City. It really highlighted changes in our world post 2020 and has made me reassess my own personal work-life balance.
I particularly enjoyed the chapters on how working from home and zoom meetings change our behaviours and the chapters on ‘burnout’. Elizabeth discusses how being busy was cool and how our routines made us over stressed and dangerously untested and how we are still experiencing burnout even working from home!
The discussions on work culture were eye opening. I always associated work culture with the freebies I received, however Elizabeth explains that culture should not be about what we get for free from companies, food, drink, lunches, haircuts etc. culture should be about how much a company personally invests in its employees.
I resonated with many of the themes in this inspiring book, including motherhood, women in the workplace and definitely that burnout. This book is both conversational and academic and a very easy read.
Elizabeth is the co-author of Slay In Your Lane & Loud Black Girls. I love her work and the fact that she is from Croydon!
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