What Is A Job?

How home working is gradually altering the relationship between employee and employer

Allan Milne Lees
8 min readMay 5, 2023
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The weekly English-language news magazine The Economist is generally regarded as being the highest-quality news source available to those for whom English is either a first language or one they’re comfortable with. Its journalists are regarded as being far better informed and rather more intelligent than those working for other employers, and its current Editor is a frequent guest on highbrow webcasts, TV discussion programs, and various “in depth” radio presentations. I confess to a perverse fondness for the publication, in much the same way as a relative might have a fondness for a well-meaning but rather slow second cousin.

Journalists, by the very nature of their occupation, are so preoccupied with the proverbial trees that they never see the shape of the wood the trees comprise; this is true even of those working for moderately prestigious organizations. As such, I’ve generally found The Economist to take anywhere between one year to an entire decade to grasp the real significance of an event and adjust their conventional thinking to match the challenge presented. It’s nice that they get there in the end; it would be nicer if they weren’t quite so habitually slow on the uptake.

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Allan Milne Lees

Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.