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Originally Posted by Brutha  I think that separation is the wrong goal.
The goal should be that work becomes life. |
If you want to be on the clock 24/7, that's your business. But I don't believe that wanting to have time of my own, and to not have the use of my off-work time and significant choice of social network use decided for me, and other such matters necessarily are a fundamentally wrongheaded goal.
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Originally Posted by sbdiane It makes me angry and I've decided not to play the game anymore. From both ends. I don't work for them and I don't buy their crap anymore. |
If by "don't buy their crap anymore" means that you've abandoned the tactic of working to sustain mere consumerism, I suppose that's a noble goal. But generating income via work isn't something one might write off that abruptly, however--some expenditures (e.g. health care) aren't matters of mere consumerism.
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Originally Posted by silicon toad2000 Does work life separation exist? The hardarse in me says it's called retirement. Aside from that, the beauty about electronic devices is that they have an off switch. The work/life separation exists, it's a choice. Bluring those lines is not inevitable, it's a choice we all make. |
Are you stating that before the hours-creep of recent times, everyone was tethered to the workplace 24/7 until they retired?
As far as electronic devices go, this is much more a cultural than technological issue. The electronic devices (e.g. BlackBerries, I-Phones, etc.) are merely a tool. Encroachment of office life onto one's personal time can also come via entirely non-electronic forms of pressure (e.g. extreme peer pressure in the workplace for de-rigueur drinking and socializing with workmates in some parts of the world, or to never to leave the office before other specific individuals).