I’ve always been taken with the word “zeitgeist.” I remember hearing it for the first time when I was in college, wondering why I had never heard it before, and tucking it away because it was one of those perfect foreign words that said what no word in English did.
Language adapts to changing needs, and new terms are cropping up to describe the evolving workplace. As it happens, two reports will be released this week, from two giants in the field of life/work study, and they both coin phrases that may well become part of the lexicon.
The general message of both studies is that we spend far too much time at work, but the authors move beyond merely complaining and measure the downside not only to workers — particularly parents — but to business. That both groups independently examined the same territory and reached the same conclusions says something about what’s in the life/work zeitgeist.
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