“I just realized that there was no amount of money that I wanted to keep working, to have someone be able to just dictate my time and have control over me,” said Erika Kullberg, 31, who quit her job as a corporate attorney in 2019 after long hours prevented her from spending time with a dying relative who eventually passed away.

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