How to Balance Your Life by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781741756463
Publisher: Allen & Unwin

rearranging your work time

As we’ve seen, one way of reducing the hours you work each week without having to even contemplate a decrease in pay is by increasing your productivity. Another is by rearranging your time. The traditional working day proceeds as follows. You wake up, get ready and then travel from home to work. When you get there you work. You have breaks during the day, including lunch, and when you finish, you travel home again. At home you eat, clean, rest, watch TV and then fall asleep. Ideally, you turn off the TV and go and lie in your bed before you fall asleep, but this doesn’t always happen.

Most people assume that this model of the working day is the one we must follow, but if you are trying to balance your life, it is worth thinking about whether there is a different one that could better serve your needs. In particular, there are two assumptions underlying the traditional model of the working day that are now outdated. One is that the only place you can work is at your workplace. We have seen how mobile phones, BlackBerrys and home and laptop computers have rendered this notion obsolete. The second assumption flows from the first, and it is that work needs to be done in one big chunk of the day, and not broken down into two or more smaller chunks. Of course when you had to be at your workplace to work, it was sensible to do all your work in one big chunk, perhaps with a lunchbreak in the middle, but now that work is more portable, we can look at other ways to structure the day.

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