15 minutes a week… for a year 👀 do you think anyone at your job would notice? Leyla Kazim, a British BBC journalist, had a suspicion: her position at a technology company in London was no longer useful for anything. Instead of quitting, she decided to find out 😏
For nearly a year, she devoted barely 15 minutes a week to her actual work: answering the occasional email and pretending to make progress in meetings.
She spent the rest of her time planning, in meticulous detail in an Excel spreadsheet, a ten-month trip around the world.
No one in the office noticed anything. Not a single reprimand, not an awkward question. In 2014, she quit on her own, without any scandal, and kept the story to herself for years until she told it on her blog. That was the lesson: sometimes office work is more fiction than anything else 🙃