{"product_id":"9781443449250","title":"The Weekend Effect : The Life-Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Weekend Effect\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Katrina Onstad\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA well-lived weekend is the gateway to a well-lived life. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Weekend Effect \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eshows us how by saving the weekend we can save ourselves.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe weekend—the once-sacred forty-eight hours of leisure—has been lost to overbooked schedules, pinging devices and encroaching work demands. Many of us are working more hours than we did a decade ago, and worse, we allow those hours to slide over seven days a week, giving us no respite to tune out and recharge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe don’t need the research to tell us that this is hurting us. Our health is deteriorating, our social networks (the face-to-face kind) are weak and our productivity is down. It wasn’t long ago that working less and living more was considered a virtue. So what happened? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Weekend Effect\u003c\/em\u003e, journalist Katrina Onstad, herself suffering from Sunday-night letdown, digs into the history, the positive psychology and the cultural anthropology of the great missing weekend. She pushes back against the all-work, no-fun ethos and follows the trail of people, companies and countries who are vigilantly protecting their weekends for joy, for adventure and, most important, for meaning. Readers of \u003cem\u003eThe Happiness Project\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAll Joy and No Fun\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThrive\u003c\/em\u003e will find personal and business inspiration in Onstad’s well-researched argument to re-frame our weekends. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“[A] thoughful, life-affirming work.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781443449250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41120718454990,"sku":"9781443449250","price":19.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9781443449250.jpg?v=1649995698","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781443449250","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}