I’m opting to use the Just Jot It January prompt today, which is “balance.”
A large company in our area used to promote the concept of work/life balance.
They don’t anymore.
Now it is work/life “integration.”
This seems to mean that the employee is supposed to squeeze the rest of their non-work life and responsibilities into gaps in their work life. It also means that work can lay claim to what used to be personal/family time, such as evenings, weekends, and vacation, expecting monitoring of work email and helping to address problems over the phone.
I don’t think this is good for the employees, their families, or the business. It’s easy for workers to burn out and that is not good for anybody.
Let’s try to get back in balance.
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So right. Balance in work life is better for productivity.
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It’s true. Just too bad that some of the powers that be don’t realize it.
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They should. It’s how they got where they are today.
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True. Many companies used to view their employees as an asset. Now, they often look at them as just part of the expenses.
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That regression.
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On top it makes an imbalance of employed and unemployed people which we often forget.
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It also leads to the idea that caretaking and volunteer work aren’t worth anything because one isn’t be paid to do it.
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Work will take over of you let it and the companies don’t care as long as they get what they want.
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Sadly, true.
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