Management Issues is running an article about how senior executives in billion-dollar companies are dissatisfied with the work arrangements they have available to them now.
More than half (53 per cent) of those questioned said they have not achieved a satisfactory work-life balance and a similar proportion (46 per cent) felt that their work-life balance had changed for the worse over the past five years.
Compounding these work-life woes, six out of 10 complained that technologies such as the BlackBerry and mobile phone are further eroding the boundaries between work and personal life.
What will the answer be for these beleagured captains of industry? More flexible schedules for themselves, along with “quiet hours” during which their electronic leashes leave them alone. Of course, they will feel enormous amounts of Puritan guilt for wanting to do something other than work.
The answer to that will be to inflict brute force productivity gains on everyone below them in the company. If everyone else is made to work twice as hard for half as much, then guilt will be assuaged and the golf game can go on as scheduled…
Tags: productivity, Work Ethic
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