The life and work balance.
It really is the impossible dream and maybe we have been naïve to ever think we could achieve such a delicate state of affairs.
We didn’t even get close to it before the computer revolution arrived, so what hope do we have now when information is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
At the start of the digital age we were promised paperless offices, but we use more paper than ever.
It may be recycled paper, but it’s still double handling: reading an email or a PDF and then printing it out to read on hard copy.
The digital world itself never sleeps, thanks to devices that have made it more accessible than ever.
On their own, iphones and watches are brilliant, wonderful inventions, but when it comes to work they simply enable us to work more than ever.
Apple doesn’t give you instructions how to control the use of an iphone when you buy one.
[social_quote duplicate=”no” align=”default”]Naturally that’s the ultimate freedom – so long as you hand over your money, what you do with the phone is your business alone.[/social_quote]
And yet we must reflect on the need to control these devices, instead of them controlling us.
It is early days and we are only now starting to think about the consequences of this incredible new technology.
Especially about its impact on what used to be time that we devoted to family and community.
As the novelty and excitement of these inventions dies down a bit we should start the discussion about the need to turn off such devices for a certain time of the day; maybe even a whole day or two, God forbid.
It may help to remember that no matter what we are talking about, too much of a good thing is never good for you.
Balance on the other hand…
