The Reddit discussion group “r/antiwork” is one of the site’s very biggest communities. The channel’s whopping 2.9 million members share a common frustration: the indignities they face at their jobs.

One of those intangible qualities that everyone talks about but few clearly define is work ethic. Yet we all know what it looks like when we see it, whether it’s a colleague tackling challenges ...

In Make Your Own Job, Erik Baker shows just how long Americans have scrambled to pile work on top of work—and at what cost. What is a “work ethic”? In its most common usage, the phrase connotes a ...

In Make Your Own Job, Erik Baker shows just how long Americans have scrambled to pile work on top of work—and at what cost. A woman moves to comfort a coworker who is slumped over her desk in despair, ...