![]() In economic terms, he is a unit of negative output. One might reasonably describe Gavin (not his real name) as a deadbeat. ![]() To stop his laptop from going into sleep mode – lest his employers check it for activity – Gavin played a 10-hour YouTube video of a black screen. He would start at 8.30am and clock off about 11am. When the pandemic began, Gavin, now working as a software engineer, realised, to his inexhaustible joy, that he could get away with doing less work than he had ever dreamed of, from the comfort of his home. He would take an hour for breakfast, and two for lunch. His best-ever job was as a civil servant. When he worked in a pub, he would sneak out of the building and go to another pub nearby, for a pint. ![]() When he worked in a call centre, he would mute the phone, rather than answer it. I n every job he has ever had, Gavin has shirked.
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