From Office Space to The Office, the idea that our jobs consist of spending considerable time focusing on insubstantial work is common in popular culture. Do you feel like you're doing fake work?
The Lifestyle Ignition blog calls out fake work, or "work for work's sake", defining it thusly:
Fake Work (FW): A project or task that keeps one or multiple people busy yet has no productive value. It serves to keep an illusion alive that there is still something of productive value being achieved.
The post describes fake work as having crept into everyone's work day, at least to an extent. We'd like to think that Lifehacker readers all have fulfilling jobs in which they're never forced to do "fake work", but out of curiosity, we're wondering:
Give us your thoughts in more detail in the comments. Photo by Claire Schmitt.
Fake Work is Destroying America! [Lifestyle Ignition]