In his amusing but all-too-real essay On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs, anthropologist David Graeber argues that an epidemic of made-up jobs is subjecting grave psychological harm on the populous.

Inspired by David Graeber’s new book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, I asked a lot of people if their jobs were pointless. The answers I heard? Basically a bunch of resounding yesses. Here are 10 of them, ...

It’s as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs for the sake of keeping us all working. Huge swaths of people spend their days performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to ...

Earlier this month, Politico published a bonkers story about Solomon Lartey and Reginald Young Jr., two former “records management analysts” in the White House whose $65,000-a-year jobs entailed ...

Many people dream of landing a good job, earning promotions and building a comfortable life. But one man believes that for many professionals today, those milestones no longer bring the sense of ...

Let’s just get this out of the way: All jobs are bullshit jobs. Even if you’re a public defender or work for Médecins Sans Frontières, insofar as your labor is determined by a system of abstract ...

Unfair or pointless work tasks are driving more employees to mentally check out, turning to the internet to cope with stress, sleepless nights, and next-day burnout, new research shows. The study, led ...