The New Way to Know When You’re Done With Work

How to manage your time when ‘time’ has lost all meaning

Laura Vanderkam
Forge
Published in
3 min readJul 23, 2020

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Illustration: Justin Cassano

Back when “going home” was a thing we did after work, most teams had some sort of group norm for when was acceptable to shut down for the day. Maybe around 5 p.m., people started leaving, and the majority departed by 6 p.m., with a bump around the time the boss went out the door.

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Laura Vanderkam
Forge
Writer for

Laura Vanderkam is the author of several time management books including Off the Clock and 168 Hours. She blogs at LauraVanderkam.com.