Re:Attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen (2022)
by generic92034 on Saturday August 26, 2023 @07:05PM
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> That anxiety only goes away if you have an environment that allows you to unplug. Systemic changes like requiring workplaces to allow employees to have "off times" seem necessary to remove some of the baseline anxieties many of us have.
Are there really so many employers requiring employees to be permanently on-call? I would only consider working in such an environment if they would be paying enough to retire in a few years.
Re:Attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen (2022)
by bornfreddy on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:06AM
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This. And do they really expect employees to answer e-mails outside of working hours? To me e-mail is "slow" communication - if you need an answer right now, use a different channel.
Re:Attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen (2022)
by milesvp on Sunday August 27, 2023 @12:20PM
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I suspect yes. You may not see it in your industry, but I see it a lot in the creative space. Anecdotally, I know there’s an expectation when working for a video production company that you are constantly available to react to clients. And that since much of the work is contracted to people who work odd hours, being a producer is an always on kind of job.
As for how common it is? dunno, but there was a very funny (sad?) music video that hints that this is fairly widespread phenomena, for young office workers. Quarter Life Poetry, “Circle Back”. One of the final scenes is the narrator being unable to get away from the grind even at home.
https://youtu.be/XXt1-qEjKlE?si=ps3iSQZBVYMweN83
edit: warning slightly crass
Re:Attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen (2022)
by generic92034 on Monday August 28, 2023 @01:13PM
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Software developer here, also doing development support work at times. Still, in the last 20 years it never happened that I got a call from work, despite emergencies being pretty common. As it should be, in countries with strong employee rights.
Re:Attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen (2022)
by ipaddr on Saturday August 26, 2023 @07:57PM
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When you don't pickup people stop expecting you to. Set your own expectations.
Re:Attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen (2022)
by tomjen3 on Sunday August 27, 2023 @12:17PM
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Thats an extreme example to me. I don't think I have ever had a phone dinner, unless we needed to show somebody a picture or take one (and both things are rare).
You can put your phone on a shelf and if somebody calls you, you can pick it up, or call them back later.
If you want to talk about kids specifically, then you'd need some way to alter the anxieties that affect them the most. Anecdotally, it seems like kids (teens especially) end up with lots of FOMO and loneliness. The only structural reforms I've seen suggested as solutions to those were much more drastic than the ones proposed for adults, like preventing teenagers from using social media at all.