We are thinking about work and life the completely wrong way around, and it’s created a workforce that is—on the whole—overworked, disengaged, and apprehensive.

Microsoft, which collects data every time you interact with one of its products, tracked how long people around the world spend using their Teams software. They found that when many people shifted to logging in from home instead of the office, the length of the average workday increased by 13%, or 46 minutes, in the two years after the pandemic began in March 2020.

Instead of thinking about work-money-life, we need to flip so it’s life-money-work in that order, and anyone can do that by following three steps.

BY Tim Duggan