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A phenomenon is spreading, insidiously and imperceptibly: more and more things that employees used to do for you can now be "done" by yourself. Whether you check in at the airport using an app, make a bank transfer, buy a ticket at a vending machine or organise your work calendar, thanks to technology the trend is towards "Do it yourself! This development is sold to us as an advantage. But is that really true? No, says Craig Lambert. For him, on the contrary, the measure is full. It proves that this trend is really only at our expense and costs a lot of time - our time! And manpower to boot. Using everyday examples, he opens readers' eyes to how many areas of life have already been permeated by this shift. The dimension is striking. A book that awakens and calls for the time-consuming, and