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“It is in the air, this anti-ambition,” Noreen Malone observes in The New York Times Magazine,

in an essay arguing that as Covid-19 has prompted a broad reassessment of the value of work,

it’s been laid bare that a sizable quotient of white-collar workers hate their jobs. The sacrifices

necessary for career advancement, Malone suggests, are seen by a growing number as simply

not worth it.
 
A pre-pandemic linkage of personal value to work has been decoupled, Malone writes. As ennui

pervades and as the living room unhappily becomes an office, Malone suggests white-collar workers

are becoming more like their blue-collar kin: viewing their work as “just a job, a paycheck to take

care of the bills.”