Work and Private Life
Work and Private Life
Introduction
In this essay I will be talking about work and private life. There have been significant changes to work and private life between 1990’s and 2010. This could be due to many factors such as technology, changes in law, improved way of working (Productivity and training) and intense competition.
Main body
Work and private life in modern times clashes in more ways than before. For example, one does not have enough time to concentrate on private life as much as work. New technologies such as Smartphone’s (Windows Phone, Blackberries, Android, Symbian Phones, Bada, and Iphones etc), laptops and other communication devices have made it easy for employers to be in contact with employees more ways than ever before.
The availability of this technology interferes more with private life and it gives work more priority over private life.
In the 80’s, Once an employee had finished their shift in the office or store, they had total freedom and time for their private life as there was very rare disturbances from work due to lack of technology.
In recent years, technology have made it possible for employers to contact employees and find out about certain tasks that employees have to complete in short amount of time, this creates a disturbances to an employee’s private life.
In my own experience working as Store Manager in Superdrug between 2005 and 2008, my blackberry phone supplied by head office had made it easy to be in contact with other managers and colleagues, in the meantime it was a headache because holding a blackberry meant I had to answer every single email, calls and other communications no matter what time of the day or night. It became harder and harder when I got married and later started having kids. This had put so much pressure on my private life that I just had to change my job and go to a different organisation. It was not like old days that once one had left the office they had nothing to do with
Introduction
In this essay I will be talking about work and private life. There have been significant changes to work and private life between 1990’s and 2010. This could be due to many factors such as technology, changes in law, improved way of working (Productivity and training) and intense competition.
Main body
Work and private life in modern times clashes in more ways than before. For example, one does not have enough time to concentrate on private life as much as work. New technologies such as Smartphone’s (Windows Phone, Blackberries, Android, Symbian Phones, Bada, and Iphones etc), laptops and other communication devices have made it easy for employers to be in contact with employees more ways than ever before.
The availability of this technology interferes more with private life and it gives work more priority over private life.
In the 80’s, Once an employee had finished their shift in the office or store, they had total freedom and time for their private life as there was very rare disturbances from work due to lack of technology.
In recent years, technology have made it possible for employers to contact employees and find out about certain tasks that employees have to complete in short amount of time, this creates a disturbances to an employee’s private life.
In my own experience working as Store Manager in Superdrug between 2005 and 2008, my blackberry phone supplied by head office had made it easy to be in contact with other managers and colleagues, in the meantime it was a headache because holding a blackberry meant I had to answer every single email, calls and other communications no matter what time of the day or night. It became harder and harder when I got married and later started having kids. This had put so much pressure on my private life that I just had to change my job and go to a different organisation. It was not like old days that once one had left the office they had nothing to do with
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