AllThingsD » work-life balance http://allthingsd.com Sun, 27 May 2012 01:54:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 No Balance http://allthingsd.com/20120408/no-balance/ http://allthingsd.com/20120408/no-balance/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 06:59:58 +0000 Eric Johnson http://allthingsd.com/?p=194143

So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.

– Sheryl Sandberg, in an interview for the PBS/AOL digital and broadcast series “Makers: Women Who Make America”

]]> http://allthingsd.com/20120408/no-balance/feed/ 0 In Other News, Employees Spend 25 Percent of Work Time Reading Stupid Surveys http://allthingsd.com/20080929/in-other-news-employees-spend-25-of-work-time-reading-stupid-surveys/ http://allthingsd.com/20080929/in-other-news-employees-spend-25-of-work-time-reading-stupid-surveys/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:00:08 +0000 John Paczkowski http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/?p=5787 Astonishing. The average prole spends more than 25 percent of his or her online time at work on personal activities. That’s the word from IT consultancy Voco, having apparently just discovered that the Internet, which essentially puts a concert hall, movie theater, TV, brokerage firm, shopping mall, garage sale and family/friend gathering on every employee desktop, can be–gasp–a distraction in the workplace.

Why, exactly, this is an issue in this age of “work-life balance” and ROWE (results-only work environment) isn’t exactly clear. As retail giant Best Buy (BBY) has proven, employee “presence” doesn’t always equate with “employee productivity.” Why shouldn’t workers be free to spend some personal time online at work if they’re meeting their goals?

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