It begins with a short pause. You are between a meeting and a class, the laundry needs attention and your mind is too foggy for deep work, so you reply to a few emails, stretch, then return to a project.
This patchwork of work and life is not new, but a name has arrived: microshifting. It describes breaking your day into short, flexible work bursts instead of the classic uninterrupted eight hours.
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Microshifting is catching on because it promises a practical middle path between rigid office hours and chaotic multitasking.
Reports such as Owl Labs’ State of Hybrid Work (2025) found that about 65 percent of wo
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