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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.Programming.2025.5

It’s OK to Want to Have a Good Time

Authors: Luke Church and Mariana Marasoiu

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 134, Companion Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming (Programming 2025)

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We reflect on our decade or so of experience advising students, corporate teams and policy makers, many of whom really just want to have a good time at work and want others to as well. However, they seem to be embarrassed to say so, they dress their work in the mantle of productivity, and mostly damage it in the process. In this short opinion piece, we argue that it is long past time to say goodnight to Taylorism and ask what models of research aligned to something humane might replace it?

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Luke Church and Mariana Marasoiu. It’s OK to Want to Have a Good Time. In Companion Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming (Programming 2025). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 134, pp. 5:1-5:4, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{church_et_al:OASIcs.Programming.2025.5,
  author =	{Church, Luke and Marasoiu, Mariana},
  title =	{{It’s OK to Want to Have a Good Time}},
  booktitle =	{Companion Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming (Programming 2025)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:4},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-382-9},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{134},
  editor =	{Edwards, Jonathan and Perera, Roly and Petricek, Tomas},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.Programming.2025.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-242891},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.Programming.2025.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: productivity, happiness, Hegel}
}

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