The Covid pandemic has focused a lot of attention on work – what we do, where we do it, how we do it and to some extent, why we do it. The concept of ‘bullshit jobs’ was popularized by an American anthropologist before the pandemic. Now a French researcher has revisited the concept, and argues that such jobs contribute to inequality.
“A bullshit job would be when you tell someone you have a job and the person in front of you doesn't understand. And then you try to explain and the person still does not understand,” says Nicolas Kayser-Bril, author of Imposture à temps complet: Pourquoi les bullshit jobs envahissent le monde (Full time imposters: Why bullshit jobs are taking over the world).
