{"id":11610,"date":"2014-08-09T10:10:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T14:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=11610"},"modified":"2014-08-09T10:30:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T14:30:05","slug":"bring-your-life-to-work-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2014\/08\/09\/bring-your-life-to-work-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring your life to work day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Americans on average work too much, everyone else says–too many hours, too little time off, and a tendency to not use up what little downtime the contract might allow. We have a reputation for being acquisitive, obsessive, harried, and oblivious. I, for example, am writing this on Saturday morning, my day off. I’m not oblivious to the irony.<\/p>\n

Time is money, we say, and we “spend” it on the job. Hard work is a virtue much admired, along with dedication and ambition. They are synonymous with “getting ahead in life.” Give us a nice white beach and a little sunshine and what do we do?–fill in the mangrove and put up a time-share condo complex. Incorrigible.<\/p>\n

NCPR is no corporate cubicle kind of workplace, nor do I see myself as driven drone overtiming myself into an eventual heart-attack retirement–but I do put in more hours than I have to, and take off less time than I could.\u00a0I’ve used some of that time to think about the way we structure work. And I conclude that we make our workplaces as little like our lives as possible. The things around us are about work, the people around us are co-workers, the conversations are about work. The art on the wall and carpet on the floor all say work, work, work. Why?<\/p>\n

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Jamie–a great addition to any workplace, or life. Photo: Nora Flaherty<\/p><\/div>\n

This was brought home to me when the baby started coming to NCPR. Not my baby, but Nora’s across the hall. No matter. A baby at work becomes everybody’s baby. And when the baby is in the room, it’s magically no longer work; it’s life. Imagine how the dynamic of a board meeting or a negotiation would change with a baby or two in the room. There is a world of difference between sharing a project goal and sharing a life.<\/p>\n

Jamie, alas, has moved on to Maine Public Broadcasting with her mom, Nora. I doubt I’m the only one going through baby withdrawal around here. But I learned something from the experience. If I’m going to be taking the workplace back home with me, I need to remember to take my life into the workplace, too. Everything is a little more human that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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