Even the New York Times is wondering about the spirituality of work

…or so it would seem from an article that appeared there last Sunday:

Gallup regularly polls workers around the world to find out. Its survey last year found that almost 90 percent of workers were either “not engaged” with or “actively disengaged” from their jobs. Think about that: Nine out of 10 workers spend half their waking lives doing things they don’t really want to do in places they don’t particularly want to be.

Why? One possibility is that it’s just human nature to dislike work…..

I think that this cynical and pessimistic approach to work is entirely backward. It is making us dissatisfied with our jobs — and it is also making us worse at them. For our sakes, and for the sakes of those who employ us, things need to change.

Hop over there and see what you think. Do you agree with Barry Schwarz (the article’s author) that all of our work needs a higher purpose?…and that those a few hundred years ago who argued that work is mainly done for compensation have created our modern world where so many feel disengaged from our work?

(And then hop back here and tell us what you think, if you don’t mind.)