How would Dolly Parton capture the daily grind in 2022?Working 9 to 2, putting in a load of laundryMake the kids a snack, but deadlines are a quandarySlack and emails ding, they sound so unforgivingYou can’t get off Zoom — it’s your way to make a livingFor many remote workers, 9 to 5 has changed to something more fragmented. A typical schedule might look more like 9 to 2, and then 7 to 10. Then sometimes another five minutes, wherever you can squeeze them in.When the coronavirus upended the workplace in 2020, leaving roughly 50 million people working from home by that May, the workday as we knew it went through radical changes, too. Mornings became less harried. Afternoons became child care time. Some added a third shift to their evenings, what Microsoft researchers call the “third peak” of productivity, following the midmorning and after-lunch crunches. With 10 percent of Americans still working from home and some businesses embracing remote work permanently, companies are scrambling to adjust to a new understanding of working hours.“What we used to think of as traditional work — very sp …
