Work and Unemployment

Full-time workers spend at least a quarter of their waking life at work.¹ But sad to say, on average, they enjoy that time less than anything else they do. The worst time of all is when they are with their boss.² Even so, people hate it even more if they are unemployed. This is not just because they lose money from being out of work. They lose something even more precious—a sense of contributing, of belonging, and of being wanted. In this chapter we explore all these issues, focusing again on people under 65. We first look at unemployment