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Dec 13 2007 10:18PM EST

What Work/Home Boundary?

Good debate on Slashdot about whether mobile e-mail is obliterating the boundary between work and home.

I don't think there is any question: for me, laptops and mobile e-mail started erasing the work/home line four or five years ago, and it is completely gone now. I work most of the time from home. But the disappearing boundary isn't a one-way intrusion of work into life. It flows the other way, too. It's easier to take time out of the middle of the day to do something personal, and then make it up in the evening. But is that a better life? Hard to say. Sometimes I'd like to be able to leave work at an office.

Thought this Slashdot comment was particularly interesting: "The consequence is that I also don't work that hard when I'm actually at work.It's easier for me to justify randomly screwing around on the internet or working on personal coding/whatever at work because I wind up checking email and working over weekends to get things done. I think it's fair. They steal some of my free time, I waste some of their paid time."

Would love to get your thoughts.

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