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3 keys to meaningful work: an employer who cares about the environment, society and you

  • Written by Mehran Nejati, Senior Lecturer in Management, Edith Cowan University
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We spend, on average, about 90,000 hours at work.

Given this, most of us want work that’s more than just a source of income. We want work that’s satisfying, significant, valuable. Work, in other words, that is meaningful.

What makes any particular job meaningful is, of course, subjective. In the mid-1970s, though, economist...

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