Comments on: TGI Friday: too much weekend working? http://www.colin-beveridge.com/index.php/tgi-friday/ joined-up management for a joined-up world ™ by Colin Beveridge Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Twitter Trackbacks for TGI Friday: too much weekend working? | Fighting the Trillion Dollar Bonfire [colin-beveridge.com] on Topsy.com http://www.colin-beveridge.com/index.php/tgi-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-5626 Twitter Trackbacks for TGI Friday: too much weekend working? | Fighting the Trillion Dollar Bonfire [colin-beveridge.com] on Topsy.com Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:21:15 +0000 http://www.colin-beveridge.com/?p=1692#comment-5626 [...] TGI Friday: too much weekend working? | Fighting the Trillion Dollar Bonfire www.colin-beveridge.com/index.php/tgi-friday – view page – cached We all need to look at our work schedules and see if we are doing ourselves more harm than good, by slogging away seven days a week. As it so often seems — From the page [...] [...] TGI Friday: too much weekend working? | Fighting the Trillion Dollar Bonfire http://www.colin-beveridge.com/index.php/tgi-friday – view page – cached We all need to look at our work schedules and see if we are doing ourselves more harm than good, by slogging away seven days a week. As it so often seems — From the page [...]

]]> By: Clare Evans http://www.colin-beveridge.com/index.php/tgi-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-3599 Clare Evans Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:00:26 +0000 http://www.colin-beveridge.com/?p=1692#comment-3599 Totally agree. Many of the people I work with run their own business and weekend working can be a trap that's easy to fall into. It gets in the way of family and social life if you feel that you need to spend as much time as possible working in order to keep the business going or make ends meet but breaks and time out are just as important. I've seen too many people forced to take time off for illness and long-term stress due to pressure of work. Take at least one complete day a week off from work. No checking emails, no making phone calls, no catching up - just because. If you've got family, it's even more important to make sure you spend time with them - without being distracted by work. Clare Totally agree. Many of the people I work with run their own business and weekend working can be a trap that’s easy to fall into.

It gets in the way of family and social life if you feel that you need to spend as much time as possible working in order to keep the business going or make ends meet but breaks and time out are just as important. I’ve seen too many people forced to take time off for illness and long-term stress due to pressure of work.

Take at least one complete day a week off from work. No checking emails, no making phone calls, no catching up – just because. If you’ve got family, it’s even more important to make sure you spend time with them – without being distracted by work.

Clare

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