There are bad jobs, and then there are meaningless jobs. The latter are worse for your soul. So argues David Graeber, professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and author of the new ...

The British economist Joan Robinson once remarked, “The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all.” What kind of misery is it, then, if ...

Earlier this month, Politico published a bonkers story about Solomon Lartey and Reginald Young Jr., two former “records management analysts” in the White House whose $65,000-a-year jobs entailed ...

Inspired by David Graeber’s new book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, I asked a lot of people if their jobs were pointless. The answers I heard? Basically a bunch of resounding yesses. Here are 10 of them, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jack Kelly covers career growth, job market and workplace trends. Aug 13, 2019, 10:08am EDT Aug 13, 2019, 10:16am EDT This article ...

Let’s just get this out of the way: All jobs are bullshit jobs. Even if you’re a public defender or work for Médecins Sans Frontières, insofar as your labor is determined by a system of abstract ...

Not since Dilbert has truth been spoken to power in soulless work settings. But the cartoon character’s successor may be David Graeber. In 2013 he achieved viral fame with cubicle zombies everywhere ...

This week, I fought a draining battle with one of my employer’s many online systems. A 10-minute task stretched into days of back-and-forth emails, error messages ...