Talks from the Bio lab desk

  From the start of prehistoric man being on earth, they had to scavenge and find food for the day, and also provide themselves with shelter from various environmental hazards. However, did they ever stop to wonder if they suffered stress if they felt hungry? Tired? Overwhelmed? Or simply doubtful over the next meal? Maybe not, and they treaded on to the next hunt. In today’s age, the modern worker is expected to perform like software, from being scalable, always-on and infinitely optimizable. Beneath the productivity systems, motivational rhetoric, and digital tools lies something far less flexible, which at times, is not given much attention, which involves, the working person, is yet another biological organism shaped by millions of years of evolution. The tension between these two realities, tend to put cultural expectations of constant output and the physiological limits of the human body, as quietly becoming one of the defining conflicts of the future of work. This isn’t ...