The article discusses the shift in work culture where the traditional workday has become obsolete. According to Microsoft's report, many employees now start working as early as 6 a.m. and some continue into the late evening and weekends. While flexibility has its benefits, it has also blurred the lines of the workday, resulting in continuous working hours. The absence of boundaries has created expectations of immediate responses, overwhelming employees with the pace of communication. The article emphasizes the need for reestablishing clear boundaries for healthier work-life balance.
Flexibility over where and when we work has expanded into an infinite workday, with blurred boundaries, leading some to work at all hours, even weekends.
We now live in an infinite workday. Not because we lack flexibility, but because we haven't yet learned how to use it in ways that truly serve us.
The blurring of those boundaries is leading to an infinite workday in which we just don't have the signals anymore to stop working.
Without clear norms or personal guardrails, that freedom has stretched across the entire day. Too many of us are working all the time.
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