Work\Life balance - can get a bit tricky..

It used to be hard just because your mobile kept sending you work emails and text messages … but now, with COVID lockdowns and working from home, balancing your work life and private life just got more muddled. Even more so now that there are hosted phone systems and mobile apps that keep you connected to work every second of every day!

So how do you stop ‘being at work’?

Well, it’s hard. The expectation now is that you are available all the time. Spare time is now work time. And the onus is on you - stand firm… or demand more pay! In reality the work day is no different to what is was, it’s just now all at home. And there are other obstacles - kids, pets, .. feeding kids and pets, stopping kids and pets fighting… working out whose kids and pets are they anyway? All while managing a video conference where everyone can see how much you’ve let your housekeeping go .. or what series in Netflix you’re up to!

It’s becoming a different world, there is no real ‘off’ time anymore. Someone else is always winning the lottery.

Now you have to do what you’ve been telling the kids to do all the time - turn that thing off!