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Always-on culture
We live in an ‘Always on’ culture. But we’re not all experts at multitasking.
We need to self-regulate our habits...
...if we want to manage our stress levels.
For example, have you ever had...
...to turn the car radio down so you can find where you’re going?
Or got your phone out to check the time...
...and instead checked all your socials, read an article, messaged a friend...
...and put your phone away...
...before realising you still don’t know what time it is? We’ve all done it. But the one common thing is technology. It’s everywhere.
And when we use it too much, we end up living an ‘Always on’ life. Think about it. We used to live at home and work at work.
We used to know the difference between socialising and having alone time.
But now the lines are blurred. We’re increasingly able to do what we want, when we want. So we often try to do everything.
Like video chatting with...
...colleagues around the country...
...while live-editing an online document and...
... moving money from one bank account to another...
to pay for the flight to Edinburgh open in that thirteenth browser tab.
Or was it the next tab over? Why is that tab shouting at me?
Oh the video call!
Sound familiar?
It can be hard enough being ‘Always on’ at work from 9-5. But when we work from home, the boundaries are completely removed. Many of us work beyond our hours and skip breaks because we think we have to.
It becomes all-too easy to feel like we need to be permanently visible to our manager.
And to worry that if we don’t respond to every message at any time of the day...
...we’re not doing enough..
And even when we manage to turn our work lives off...
...we’re still ‘Always on’...
...to other things.
As we probably know, this isn’t healthy. But now that we know more about ‘always-on’ culture, we can learn some coping mechanisms by watching module 2.