Free time must differ from work so that work can resume effectively

Evidence

On the one hand one should pay attention at work and not be distracted or lark about; wage labour is predicated on this assumption and its laws have been internalized. On the other hand free time must not resemble work in any way whatsoever, in order, presumably, that one can work all the more effectively afterwards. Hence the inanity of many leisure activities. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 259

Categorization

• XREF: The mechanism of administered free time — directly portable to the reader’s analytic project on modern leisure. — connects to: Academic schedule flexibility masks ever-accessible unbounded work hours — Brooke Erin Duffy, (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love:…, 618