Is working a nine-to-five still relevant?
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Daily grind: COVID-19 has sparked greater conversations about workplace productivity
The average employee spends eight hours, Monday to Friday, working away while watching the clock, hoping the sun makes its way jet-like speed back to the western horizon. Now than ever, it is evident that work as we know it will soon change, but what will this change look like, and when will it happen?
As a premise, work is as old as humankind. From the first technological invention, which was the discovery of fire when early humans sought ways to keep themselves warm and turned to friction to produce heat, humans have always proved to be industrious.
‘When you make peace withyourself, you make peace with the world’- Maha GhosanandaThis may come at a huge cost if not handled properly. What started off on Labour Day in Letlhakane this year, where Boko was in attendance when the militant lawyer-cum-trade unionist, Robert Rabasimane rebutted the President’s address in defence of the trade union has seemingly spiralled out of control. The issue is now creating a cat-and-mouse type of a...