In the past there was a thought that digitization and advancement would solve problems and people would have more free time. In practice, it caused us to work all the time. Digital accessibility, and proximity to devices has made us available, and workplaces expect us to be available all the time. In practice, the hours I spend at work have increased.
working hours in global projects:
In addition, if you are working on a global project, the difference in working hours around the world should always be available to employees whose working hours are in China or the Europe, and the difference in hours creates a situation where at any given time it is working time and emails are received and sent, and we need and are required to have our hands on the pulse.
With the corona, the transition to working from home strengthened the blurring between work time and the employee's free time, work began to be measured by definition of projects rather than by hours.
Freelancers experience the fluidity of hours in the most significant way where the working times are determined by the client (and usually the work has to be ready for yesterday) so that they move between intensive work and "holes" without work sequence. look at Employment Continuity
Employers have a tendency to create a position with global working hours and thus employ employees in overtime without pay
In the US especially, the work culture is very intense. There are several countries (france and Portugal) a working hours not to send emails after working hours to give the emploee the time to recover and have a life, in israel u have also some law but becuse the supervision never enforced its like the law doesnt exist and the companies alow themselves to create a long working hour colture.
When time equal money in our neo-iberal Capitalism decade - delicate things like our social connections are getting shaped by this giant forcesand it influent on the time we spend with our older-family, the time kids are in the digital and the list goes on.
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