Do you take calls from your boss during dinner, or check your emails before throwing off the duvet? Watch out, you may be a victim of the new 24/7 work culture.
Recently, Professor Susan Greenfield, the 21st-century superbrain, revealed how infuriating she found the exhortation to ?chill out?. Firing off the latest salvo in the ?work-life balance? debate, she said: ?I wonder if Beethoven had work-life balance, or Shakespeare.? She went on to suggest that what we need is not to ?chill out?, but to have working lives that excite and stimulate us: ?To start from the assumption that work is different from life, and not part of it, that it is some chore that has to be kept in its box so you can go and talk to trees or whatever, that?s a wrong distinction, a wrong starting point.?
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