{"id":97,"date":"2016-05-10T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2016-04-16T11:41:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T17:41:17","slug":"honoring-personal-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/honoring-personal-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring personal time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today the boss and your colleagues can reach you 24-7, at night, on vacation, at your kid’s soccer game.<\/p>\n

Technology has been seeping into off work hours for years and the problem is worldwide. Volkswagen AG recently passed a corporate-wide rule banning business emails between 6:15 am and 7 p.m. German employees love it.<\/p>\n

In the U.S. the issue has resulted in overtime lawsuits.<\/p>\n

Managers can solve the problem.<\/p>\n

* Build in predictability. Nancy Rothbard, a Wharton School management professor recommends spending part of Friday afternoon scheduling time to complete mandatory projects for the next week so you won’t end up doing them at night.<\/p>\n

* Schedule a 4 p.m. triage. Decide what your team should finish by the next day. Laura Vanderkam, author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast<\/em>, asks “If an evil villain cut the power, what would you still do?”<\/p>\n

* Use lunchtime for check-ins. Make social and brainstorming rounds while grabbing some food. That way you get interaction, but can still deal with anything that comes up before quitting time, Vanderkam says.<\/p>\n

Other experts, quoted in Bloomberg Businessweek, say the open configuration of offices is partly to blame because no one gets to concentrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today the boss and your colleagues can reach you 24-7, at night, on vacation, at your kid’s soccer game. Technology has been seeping into off work hours for years and the problem is worldwide. Volkswagen AG recently passed a corporate-wide rule banning business emails between 6:15 am and 7 p.m. German employees love it. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t