Imagine buying a sugar-sweetened ice cream and getting a message on the label that says: “Ten best weight loss tips.”
If you think one tip might be, “Leave the ice cream cone”, then you don’t think like Tim Cook, Apple’s boss.
Last week, Apple he announced its iPhones will soon have a “powerful tool” called Focus to effectively deal with a blizzard of bleeps and pings that can cause both to meditate and rest hopelessly. Users should be able to open Twitter if they are busy at work or do not speak to work emails on weekends.
Or he may be able to do something very useful: shut down a disruptive device or even eliminate his fun programs. If Apple liked it you wouldn’t do it, as it makes money from the App Store and sells iPhones. But you can see why it is so important to look like it is doing something to reduce digital disruption.
Work, work habits were always a problem before the epidemic and it has worsened since then.
We are in the midst of an “exhausting epidemic”, according to Jennifer Moss, a US labor expert who co-authored a study of workers in 46 countries last year. Many say the work is still growing, he he wrote in the Harvard Business Review. As one respondent said: “Emails start at 5:30 in the morning and do not end until 10 o’clock at night, because they know you are nowhere to be found. For single people who are not married it is very difficult, because you do not say, ‘I have to go and take care of my children’. ”
That statement is supported by government statistics in the UK showing people working from home last year put up six hours of unpaid overtime, compared with 3.6 hours for those who didn’t work from home.
Considering homework is not to be taken lightly, in other words because most employees want them, which leads to problems. Long hours of work kill thousands of people every year, the most dangerous organization in the world learning he said last month. Working more than 55 hours a week can be dangerous, she found.
Not surprisingly, governments around the world are facing increasing pressure to give workers something they say is not uncommon – the right to freedom of expression.
This is spreading faster than one might think, not just working a white collar. Police in the Australian state of Victoria recently won the right to suspend work associations said it was the first kind of legal union. People were “sick to feel they were working 24/7”, and needed the opportunity to rest and recover, the agency said. Too many messages from work were few or they could easily wait.
Ireland brought the right-wing system to extinguish itself in April and Canada is looking at the same thing, as in other countries.
This is good. Fearing that this may prevent other employers from changing the exaggeration. “It’s not just 9 to 5,” says Andrew Pakes, chief of research at the UK Prospect Union, which is pushing for the right to abolition. “It doesn’t mean people say, ‘It’s 5.02pm so I don’t answer emails’.” Nor does it mean a blanket, the size of which corresponds to all the necessary procedures.This is not the case in France, where the law requiring companies with more than 50 employees to negotiate a ceasefire agreement has been in place for more than four years.
Employees at the Orange telephone company in France should not respond to work messages on weekends, holidays or evenings – or during training, the spokesman said. In some companies, employees who are on vacation can spend the whole day doing what they missed without having to meet customers or in-house meetings, says Alex Sirieys, France’s chief of staff. FO-Com agreement.
Sirieys says not all expensive ideas are perfect. “It depends on the will of the CEO,” he told me last week. Success also depends on employees and managers simply communicating, adding, and implementing common sense, or logical reasoning. Either way, the ability to turn off always feels much better than before.
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