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No One Wants 40 Hour Work Weeks Anymore. Everyone Wants to Work 4 Hours Per Week on a Laptop In Bali

The hidden side of the work from anywhere epidemic that millennials are falling for hook, line, and sinker.

Kele Mogotsi
The Startup
7 min readJun 11, 2021

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A millennial enjoying a digital nomad life on the beach.
Photo by Anna Shvets from Pexels

The idea of working a 40-hour workweek can cause a 20 to 30 something-year-old to run kicking and screaming to the far ends of the earth. We get gag reflex just from the notion of clocking in at 8am on Monday morning, grabbing a sandwich during a specified lunch hour, and joining the mad rush of commuters back home at 5pm.

Then, rinse and repeat for four more days till the glorious mini-escape of the weekend rolls around.

I’ll admit, even writing about it makes me a little nervous and uncomfortable.

The monotony? Routine? Job security and benefits?

These are unwelcome and oddly foreign ideas to many young professionals.

A lot of it isn’t our fault but to a large degree, we’ve traded in familiarity and comfort for income insecurity and adventure because we’re the generation that’s redefining abundance, happiness, and what it is to be a dreamer.

We want our vocation to be our profession. They’re no longer mutually exclusive.

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Kele Mogotsi
Kele Mogotsi

Written by Kele Mogotsi

An introverted attention-seeker and chronic continent-hopper. Rhymes with jelly.

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