Basecamp co-founder and CEO Jason Fried is speaking out against endless meetings, emails, being on call 24/7 and 80-hour workweeks. Nothing will change, he says, until people raise their hands and voices and demand: 'We need to have a life.'
Jason Fried considers time his most precious resource. He doesn't believe in to-do lists, endless meetings or 80-hour workweeks — what's now the norm for today's professionals.
Basecamp's approach seems to be working. The company will celebrate its 20th anniversary this year since Fried founded Basecamp as 37signals with Carlos Segura and Ernest Kim in 1999. The number of active accounts has doubled from 1.5 million to 3 million since 2014. More than 100,000 companies now rely on Basecamp's products worldwide.
"I don't think work is getting better. It's getting worse," he said."Too many endless meetings, emails, being on call 24/7 and 80-hour workweeks are driving people crazy. Employees are now too busy to think." Janice Marturano, founder of the Institute for Mindful Leadership, agrees. At CNBC's @Work + HR conference, the former vice president of public responsibility and deputy general counsel at General Mills said most people in this 24/7/365 world find it impossible to cut out all the distractions. The result? Bad decisions are being made across the board, and personal time and family life are suffering.
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