as part of a larger socio-political agenda of the state (stress levels affecting healthcare budget, work demands detracting from family life and correspondingly population growth, etc), this new initiative filters down once again in the most legislated, most panacean of ways. case in point: staff can opt to go for a walk in the nearby gardens together - the option being a choice of dates, not a choice to walk or not.
and so personal life has been made more harmonious with work life through the implementation of additional work-organised activities which take away more personal time. maybe the implementers-that-be further intend that we transfer our daily-life activities into a work context - in which case we ought to spend more hours in the workplace running our errands from workstation portals, dating our colleagues at in-house restaurants, raising our kids in office creches, and living in en-suite serviced apartments.
we'd never have to leave work.
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yes. i was thinking of skipping the walk to go shopping with a colleague, and clocking that as part of 'work-life harmony'. the only thing stopping me from this in-your-face act of rebellion was the fact that the person in charge is also my friend. another aspect of work-life harmony i suppose?
yes, be careful of making friends or worse, dalliances with colleagues - might be deletrious to inner harmony.
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