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Originally Posted by GGG
- shorter duration of actual periods of not being able to work. Even when knocked out with the Flu or something on most days you can do an hour or two of work without impairing recovery. So while you are too sick to come in and do a full day and too sick to attend meetings it’s rare that you are too sick to do anything.
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But this speaks to the blurring of the lines between private and company time that Lubicon raised.
We used to have a binary work-time/ home-time model. Lunch = away from work. Sick = away from work. Now it means “still working a bit while you’re eating lunch or between naps while nursing a cold.”
This is unhealthy. People need breaks and clear, bright lines. To shut work off completely from mind and body.
Or most of us do, anyway. The careerists who derive their self-worth from their jobs and career status seem to thrive on being needed all the time. No doubt they’re the ones fostering the culture of availability.