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Gen Z and younger Millennials have a new way of framing the work/life balance.Earlier this year, Gabrielle Judge, a 26-year-old account manager for a tech company, made a TikTok video from her Colorado living-room talking about a phrase she’d coined: the “lazy-girl job”. “It’s not you being lazy or a jerk at your job,” she explained: it’s a job that pays your bills but gives you so much work-life balance you feel like you’re “operating in a lazy state”.
Examples of lazy-girl jobs, according to Judge, include any nine-to-five position that involves low-pressure tasks, a laidback boss, remote working and – crucially – a reasonable salary . No overtime, no weekend-retreat bonding, no kowtowing to a chief executive like Elon Musk who, in May, called working from home “morally wrong”.The New York Times
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