We have all heard stories of balding, old men in suits telling the future generation of their work force that when you’re at work your time is theirs. This mentality is old fashioned and, in my opinion, wrong. Would a company rather have a workforce of happy, enthusiastic 20-some year olds with a broad understanding of their field and current events or a bunch of unhappy, dull, old fashioned employees who constantly get mixed up in modern lingo?
I would like to believe that a company would rather have the former than the latter. Big fortune 500 companies limit employee access to modern, popular social media sites such as FaceBook and Twitter. These sites, and sites like them, are the future. When employees are able to access these sites they will most likely be happier, sure their production at work might take a hit, but they will make up for it at home… on THEIR time. Employees who have access to these sites will feel the need to make up the time they spent on sites like these regardless of what’s going on. It has been proven over and over again that time spent at the office is just a fraction of the time and effort dedicated to the job.
My father worked for major telecommunication companies and would be: out of the house before my siblings and I were ready for school, we’d be asleep when he’d arrive home, he’d be on a plane to New York (or other major cities) on the weekends. I’d say the time he spent in the office was only half of what he spent on the job when it was “personal time”. In his days there weren’t Internet sites like what we have today so there wasn’t anything for people to get distracted by.
Our generation needs to revolutionize the standards set upon us and find a way to set aside time for our needs, and our children’s needs. We need to take back personal time!
