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How to skip a year of work without anyone noticing

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 28, 2026
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Half an hour before her weekly check-in, Leyla Kazim would spend 15 minutes “knocking up a page of something,” fire off a couple of emails, and deliver her updates “in a convincing tone.” That was the entire work week. She’d been at the same London company for almost a decade, and for the last year of it, she did no real wor…

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