Work-Life blend (workshifting) in Forbes
Monday, October 22nd, 2012 Karen Ambrose Hickey, EditorIn Forbes and HBR.org, Ron Ashkenas, writes about Work-Life Blend, in the article: Forget Work-Life Balance: It’s Time for Work-Life Blend.
He writes:
“The reality for many of us these days is that our professional lives bleed into our personal lives. The boundaries are increasingly permeable and movable. We check our emails in the evenings and weekends. We delay or miss family events because we can’t leave the office. And when we do, we take our communications devices with us so that we can stay connected to work.
Focusing on work-life “integration” instead of work-life “balance” has at least a couple of implications: First (and the one that I like the most) is that we can stop feeling guilty about scheduling calls during our vacations or checking our emails at night; and by the same token not feel guilty about talking with our spouses, friends, and family members during work time.”
Last year, our Mobile Workforce Report discussed this trend, which we call “workshifting.” In a blog by our CEO called “Workshifting – Yes, No or Tolerated“, Evan Kaplan notes: “In the iPass Mobile Workforce Report we found that although 95 percent stated their employers encouraged or tolerated workshifting—40 percent [of mobile workers] would like to have an even more flexible work environment.”
Kaplan continues: “What we’ve found is that if your enterprise can successfully embrace workshifting, your employees will reward you many times over with deeper loyalty, improved productivity, and let’s not forget—greater profitability.”
Read the Forbes article here >>
Read the iPass Mobile Workforce Report on workshifting >>
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