OUR ADVICES – In the era of hyperconnection, the boundary between private life and work is blurring, with health and career risks.
Checking emails over breakfast or after dinner, answering messages from loved ones at the office, calls from colleagues at the weekend… For many employees, professional life regularly interferes with personal life, and Conversely. This growing confusion between work and the private sphere, linked to the constant stress imposed by smartphones and computers on a daily basis, has a name: the “blurring» or jamming in French.
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Although the term is recent, the phenomenon it describes is not new, especially among executives where the professional culture values working outside normal working hours and being constantly reactive. But the “blurring” has amplified since the pandemic, in a context of increased exposure to screens and the possibility of teleworking from home. Psychologists and companies are worried about the consequences on productivity and especially the health of employees with a risk of exhaustion…
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