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How to be Idle
Is crushing office boredom a curse or an opportunity? Manuela Saragosa hears from one employee forgotten about at work, and from one man who's turned being idle into an industry.
Is crushing office boredom a curse or an opportunity? Manuela Saragosa hears from David Bolchover, a writer who spent years at major insurance firms with almost nothing to do all day, and Tom Hodgkinson, founder of the Idler magazine, on why being idle is so important to the creative process.
(Photo: A man relaxing at work, Credit: Thinkstock)
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