Disconnect For Your Own Good.

Products are a way to connect with - or disconnect from - who you are.

~ Emily Weiss

Do you work more than 39 hours a week? Your job could be killing you

- The Guardian

Long hours, stress and physical inactivity are bad for our wellbeing – yet we’re working harder than ever. Isn’t it time we fought back?

Technology was supposed to liberate us from much of the daily slog, but has often made things worse: in 2002, fewer than 10% of employees checked their work email outside of office hours. Today, with the help of tablets and smartphones, it is 50%, often before we get out of bed.

Some observers have suggested that workers today are never “turned off”. Like our mobile phones, we only go on standby at the end of the day, as we crawl into bed exhausted. This unrelenting joylessness is especially evident where holidays are concerned. In the US, one of the richest economies in the world, employees are lucky to get two weeks off a year.

You might almost think this frenetic activity was directly linked to our biological preservation and that we would all starve without it. As if writing stupid emails all day in a cramped office was akin to hunting-and-gathering of a previous age … Thankfully, a sea change is taking place. The costs of overwork can no longer be ignored. Long-term stress, anxiety and prolonged inactivity have been exposed as potential killers. Read further

24/7, isn't just about industrialisation: it's about the erosion of all distinction between day and night

~ Jonathan Crary

New French Law Bars Work Email After Hours

- FORTUNE

French legislator Benoit Hamon, speaking to the BBC, described the law as an answer to the travails of employees who “leave the office, but they do not leave their work. They remain attached by a kind of electronic leash—like a dog.”

A healthy work limit is 39 hours per week

People who work more than 39 hours a week are putting their health at risk, new research from The Australian National University (ANU) has found

"Long work hours erode a person's mental and physical health, because it leaves less time to eat well and look after themselves properly."

- ANU

Co-researcher Professor Lyndall Strazdins from the ANU Research School of Population Health said Australia needed to resolve some of the bigger problems that affect work and home life balance.

The research is published in Social Science & Medicine.

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