'It’s great to relax in front of the big screen after spending the day looking at the medium-sized screen, before I retire to bed to look at the small screen until I fall asleep,' comedian and Taskmaster regular Rose Matafeo recently tweeted.
Our time is held hostage by tech difficulties, Zoom meetings that run into Zoom drinks, and emails appear round the clock even as the days blur together. Even WhatsApp messages and voice notes from friends and family now register somehow as the same thankless, technological admin.
An email exchange is even less obtrusive – though emails, too, seem to have ballooned in lockdown. 'We’ve lost the physical and temporal boundaries between home and work,' says Anna Cox, a professor of human-computer interaction at UCL; the solution is to create them. Make plans for after work, and set an alarm to go off 10 minutes before the end of your workday to ensure that you actually stop.
In her email signature, Cox invites her correspondents to reply only during their normal workday to 'reduce email overload'. If yours fail to get the message, and you find your private time continually interrupted by work comms, she suggests removing the relevant apps from your phone.
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