In my own experience, a rush meant doing one repetitious task much quicker: processing checks, scrubbing plates, hauling trays.
I started to feel vaguely annoyed, and sort of bored-in-advance, at the repetitious task that lay before me after I had completed roughly 15 sun salutations.
Scientific management, such as time-and-motion studies, helped rationalize production processes by reducing or eliminating unnecessary and repetitious tasks performed by individual workers.
Although robots have aided manufacturing for decades, they've tended to be bulky systems that require precise setup to do large-scale, repetitious tasks such as welding or painting a car door.
Another aspect of gardening that is equally appealing, though somewhat less apparent, is the comfort that comes from its repetitious tasks and the sense of continuity of those rhythms.
The first phase of Foxconn's plans involves replacing the work that is either dangerous or involves repetitious tasks.
Rejecting the nascent women's-liberation movement, she nevertheless blamed sexism for the G.O.P.'s failure to fully embrace its most strenuous conservatives: The Republican Party is carried on the shoulders of the women who do the work in the precincts, ringing doorbells, distributing literature, and doing all the tiresome, repetitious campaign tasks.
Not just those of us doing repetitious or "mechanical" tasks will be replaced.
Skill discretion, measured by six items such as "keep learning new things', "can develop skills", "job requires skills", "task variety", "repetitious", and "job requires creativity", and decision authority, measured by three items such as "have freedom to make decisions", "choose how to perform work", and "have a lot of say on the job".
Some women — and men — find "repetitious, socially invisible, physical tasks" mind-numbing and stultifying; some don't.
The crux of her argument is as follows: The family — with its repetitious, socially invisible, physical tasks — is a necessary part of life, but it allows fewer opportunities for full human flourishing than public spheres like the market or the government.
