Posts Tagged ‘ work ’

Work vs Life II

January 14, 2011

I wrote a diatribe last year about work-life (im)balance and despite providing employees with tools like connectivity from their home pc, or laptops and BlackBerry devices, managers still do not (really) like employees working from home.  There is still a mentality that if your are not in your cubical after 5, you are not a hard worker. Incidentally, it doesn’t seem to matter if you are at your desk at 07:00…). Some managers try to promote it buy are caught between a rock and a hard place when their own boss frowns on it. I came across a similar discussion in…

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Work vs Life

July 13, 2010

In a departure from my usual diatribes about risk management, I had some thoughts on work-life (im)balance. Some argue that work-life balance is a misnomer. I read it should be called work-life management since there never is a balance. The best one can do is to manage each one.  A recent study by the Canadian Index of Wellbeing suggests that societies, workplaces and families have changed the way they are spending their work/leisure time and has identified trends with negative consequences:  –        Working adults are spending more time commuting between work and home. On a related point, people who travel…

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