Recently, Dynamic Business magazine held a lunch hosted by Blackberry. The topic – work/life balance and the role that smartphones can play to either help or hinder. I’m an iPhone user… so on this day I kept my beloved phone out of eyesight to not offend the event sponsors ;-)
My iPhone and are are like this (fingers crossed in solidarity) and I don’t know how I functioned before I had one. It’s my mini computer that allows me to manage my life and appointments, listen to podcasts, and synchs beautifully with my Mac (and has the coolest applications that make managing tasks and business easy).
But, back to the subject of work/life balance and smartphones. For me (and what is quoted in the article) work/life balance is something only we can manage – and that tools help (iphones, great online task management systems) but ultimately it’s up to us to focus our time on what matters. One opinion that was shared by many at the lunch – your work/life balance is not the responsibility of your employer.
You may work in an environment that is ‘flexible’ but the employers role is to ensure the business works for its stakeholders. Only you can determine the choices you make about how you spend your time. We sometimes think we have NO choice. Truth is we ONLY have choice. We are sometimes not willing to make the choices that support us most.
Dynamic Business | September 2009
Dynamic Business | September 2009
Dynamic Business | September 2009
