{"id":11284,"date":"2021-03-28T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T07:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11284"},"modified":"2021-03-27T18:51:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T01:51:40","slug":"it-may-never-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/03\/28\/it-may-never-end\/","title":{"rendered":"It May Never End"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/a-year-into-remote-work-no-one-knows-when-to-stop-working-anymore-11616751002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Year Into Remote Work, No One Knows When to Stop Working Anymore<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Workers are exhausted from nonstop working from home; many managers want to get everyone off the treadmill and breathing again<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0Chip Cutter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Actually Work...When You\u2019re Working from Home\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WqZiBugq4ts?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The daily alarm Katie Lipp sets isn\u2019t meant to wake her up. It reminds her to go to bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The employment attorney in Fairfax, Va., said she has tried a range of techniques to set boundaries while working long days from home running her law practice during the pandemic. Few measures work as well as the 9:45 p.m. alarm she started setting last month, though she admits to snoozing it occasionally to fire out one last email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou never feel like what you\u2019re doing is good enough, so you get stuck in a trap of overworking,\u201d Ms. Lipp, the mother of a 5-year-old, said. \u201cSleep is the difference. If I get like eight to nine hours, I can take on the world. If I have six hours of sleep, it\u2019s like the walking dead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A year into the Covid-19 era, many can relate. Employees say work-life boundaries blurred, then vanished, as waking life came to mean \u201calways on\u201d at work. Experts warn that working around the clock\u2014while slipping in meals, helping with homework and grabbing a few moments with a partner\u2014isn\u2019t sustainable, and employers from banking giant Citigroup Inc. to the software company Pegasystems Inc., are\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/citigroup-plans-for-hybrid-workforce-post-pandemic-11616519476?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\">trying ways to get staff to dial back<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/a-year-into-remote-work-no-one-knows-when-to-stop-working-anymore-11616751002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at WSJ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Wall Street Journal A Year Into Remote Work, No One Knows When to Stop Working Anymore Workers are exhausted from nonstop working from home; many managers want to get everyone off the treadmill and breathing again By\u00a0Chip Cutter The daily alarm Katie Lipp sets isn\u2019t meant to wake her up. 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