“Not long ago only doctors were on call all the time. Now everybody is.”
“How many people can honestly say that they have never pruned their e-mails to put off tackling more demanding tasks?”
“Employees find it ever harder to distinguish between “on-time” and “off-time”—and indeed between real work and make-work. Executives are lumbered with two overlapping workdays: a formal one full of meetings and an informal one spent trying to keep up with the torrent of e-mails and messages.”
“None of this is good for businesspeople’s marriages or mental health.”
These important quotes are from a recent article in “The Economist” I urge you to read it and interpret it broadly… in other words, not just your smart phone, but all the screens you sit gazing at… oh, and if you are not a business person, this STILL applies to you. Click HERE to read the whole article.
Oh, I have “The Servant” ready in Netflix… you may hear more about it…