Is your connectedness working against you?
Here’s a link to my blog post this morning as part of my day job at Monster: Become More Productive by Slowing Down.
The burning question: is our drive (obsession?) to stay connected “damaging our interpersonal skills, skewing our work/life balance, and limiting our creative thinking”?
I’m not trying to strike a technology-will-turn-us-all-into-distracted-and-unfocused-scatterbrains tone here, or in the Monster post. In fact, if I had that doomsday attitude, I wouldn’t have started this blog.
But author Steve Prentice’s arguments and recommendations that for “cooling down” make sense. My email inboxes don’t need to stay open all day. Taking a break for lunch is a good thing. Not fiddling with my phone while at the dinner table tonight will be helpful for my work/life balance.
After all, the tools of technology and new media are meant to help us do our jobs better and more efficiently. It’s only when we allow these tools to control us that we run into trouble.
So if cooling down actually makes us more efficient, more productive, less stressed, and clearer-thinking workers, I’m all for it.
How about you?
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August 13th, 2007 at 9:55 am
I have to admit, this is a tough one for me. I find myself skipping lunch most days of the week, and work follows me home through my personal professional pursuits. I also still struggle with the hour-by-hour (okay, I’ll be honest -it’s like every half our) compulsion to check my e-mail. All day long. It’s not that I don’t know the right answers, it’s just that putting them into practice is really difficult, especially for a relative new media newbie who wants to make a name for herself in a very competitive, always fluxuating world!