The Alienation of the Striving Middle Class - BusinessWeek - The Diigo Meta page

• 14 Apr 09
  

  The madness of multitasking. Interesting book.

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  • In the coming years a company's success will depend on how well it helps employees integrate the domains of their fractured lives. 

     

     Conley says we blur our professional and private lives, mostly through the use of technology.
  • the intravidual

  • we have become fragmented. 

     

     Not everyone is so affected. Conley says that the elsewhere phenomenon strikes the younger members of this professional class more than the older ones, parents more than the childless, the urban more than the rural, and particular personality types more than others.
  • Things get more interesting when he points out that for the first time in history, the more we are paid, the more hours we tend to work.

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