Pointless jobs: the unbearable ennui of office life – in picturesNEWS | 17 December 2024Lawyerʼs office, New York, 1997
‘In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century’s end, technology would have advanced sufficiently that countries such as Great Britain or the United States would have achieved a 15-hour work week. There’s every reason to believe he was right. In technological terms, we are quite capable of this. Yet it didn’t happen.’ Read more about this image in The Observer’s Big Picture featureAuthor: Source