Are you a screen sucker?
Pull up the covers turn on the screen. According to Credant Technologies 25% of employees in Britain go to bed with their laptops, cellphones and BlackBerrys. 57% of those who work in bed work between 2 to 6 hours a week.
Good vibrations? Do you screen the very person in front of you to connect more strongly with text on a small hand held screen?
3 Disengaging Questions:
- How do you disengage to sustain engagement over a long period of time.
- How engaged do you get with the various screens in your life?
- Can you reside in the “white space” without trying to fill it?
I appreciate Elizabeth Perry’s drawing on Television with the sense of so much white space.
Are you relaxing into the white space of your life and honoring purposeful disengagement to achieve higher levels of intentional employee engagement?
Drawing Credit: http://www.elizabethperry.com/woolgathering/2009/05/television.html
These are powerful questions, David, that some people need to seriously consider. We can all benefit from being “unplugged” at some point.
Sybil:
Yes sometimes I think we need to screen our screens more than we screen people.
David
A few years ago, people were talking about “extreme jobs”–the kind where you were always on call and where your home hours weren’t insulated from the workplace.
Now it seems like everyone has an extreme job… And that undoubtedly encourages more burnout than positive engagement.
Debbie:
I guess we have gone to the extreme. Extreme is not a healthy word when I associate it with engagement. Thanks for you comment.
David