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Speaker 1: Another small gem to come out of the census is

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Speaker 1: that we are working less. Does that surprise he doesn't

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Speaker 1: remotely surprise me. I still connect, maybe foolishly, work with

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Speaker 1: success in the sense that attitude and life is everything.

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Speaker 1: People with the right attitude tend to be successful and workout.

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Speaker 1: They tend to get stuff done. They tend to have ideas.

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Speaker 1: They tend to be more upbeat, more into life, more active.

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Speaker 1: The malaise that this country's gone through as a result

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Speaker 1: of COVID is reflected in the various approaches to work

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Speaker 1: that have come out of it, i e. The fact

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Speaker 1: we don't like work. We want four day weeks, we

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Speaker 1: want not to come to the office anymore. We like

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Speaker 1: the unemployment benefit, we like the quiet quitting. There are,

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Speaker 1: in fact only two point six million of us in work.

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Speaker 1: Think about that for a moment. Half the country works,

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Speaker 1: half don't. That's not a lot of people raise the

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Speaker 1: money to pay for all the stuff we want. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: upon finding out that we work less, Good Old Radio

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Speaker 1: New Zealand who else went straight to the sort of

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Speaker 1: person you would expect to seize upon our approach to

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Speaker 1: work to have them as spouse. The idea that we

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Speaker 1: should in fact work less. Yes, they rang some academics,

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Speaker 1: people close to the away from the royal world to

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Speaker 1: tell us we should be working less. Not only did

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Speaker 1: they want us to work less, they profit the idea

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Speaker 1: that if we work less, our productivity might go up.

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Speaker 1: Ah productivity, the age old debate. Now, the simple truth

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Speaker 1: is we know we are not very productive as a

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Speaker 1: country and we want to improve that. So we've talked

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Speaker 1: about it literally for decades, and yet have we improved it? No,

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Speaker 1: we have not, And I can tell you for nothing,

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Speaker 1: working less does not productivity improve. There are, of course

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Speaker 1: smarter ways to work. Set the task, can get it

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Speaker 1: done less mucking around, fewer road cones and smoke os,

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Speaker 1: more digging the whole, that sort of thing. I was

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Speaker 1: going to say, I actually like work. Work is good.

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Speaker 1: You have to enjoy your work, of course, and for

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Speaker 1: many I think that's probably part of the productivity issue.

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Speaker 1: If you don't like your job, it's hard to do

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Speaker 1: more of it. But enjoyment is a choice, and certainly

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Speaker 1: for most what you do for a crust is in

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Speaker 1: fact a choice, and from personal experience, if you love

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Speaker 1: what you do, it's not actually work. And maybe if

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Speaker 1: we broke the mindset that work as a problem. Work

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Speaker 1: is bad, then we wouldn't be as unproductive, and they

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Speaker 1: might be able to find an academic who says we

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Speaker 1: should work more because it's good for you. For more

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