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Is shirking just a smarter way of working? 假装是聪明的工作方式？ “Fudgelling”, I learned the other day, is an 18th-century word meaning “pretending to work when you’re not really working”, which goes to show it’s an age-old phenomenon. (There’s also the Italian phrase giacca civetta, or “owl jacket”, a modern coinage to describe the jacket slung over a desk chair, late at night, while its owner is enjoying la dolce vita.) 前几天我了解到“Fudgelling”是一个18世纪的单词，它的意思是“假装工作”，这说明这是一个自古便有的现象。（还有意大利短语giacca civetta或者是“猫头鹰夹克”，这是一个现代的词汇，用来描述夹克挂在书桌的椅子上，实指深夜时夹克的主人过着马切罗式的逃避生活） Today, with work demanding more of us than ever, it’s no surprise to witness the rise of extreme fudgelling. In a recent study, the academic Erin Reid spent time at an unnamed US management consultancy that exp plans to stay late, etc. She discovered that 31% of men and 11% of women found ways tects total devotion from employees: responding to emails at midnight, cancelling birthday plans to stay late,etc.She discovered that 31% of men and 11% percent of women found ways to “pass” as workaholics: they vanished from work without telling anyone, or made covert deals with colleagues so they could spend time with their families. | 
