When sitting down to design one’s life happiness is a worthy goal. In today’s world our online life requires a large amount of attention and as such has a large influence on us, namely our happiness.
The question I’d like to ask is whether it is more likely to make you happy if you have one queue of e-mail messages that incorporates your work and personal life.
A pro argument could be made that by incorporating them you are creating a holistic smooth lifestyle. Such an argument is similar to advocating living near your workplace and having friendships with co-workers outside of the office.
An easy counter argument could be made that the workplace is a natural greenhouse of tension and by separating personal and business you are more likely to separate happiness from tension.
It seems to me that it would be easy enough to do experiments (maybe a month long) to find out how you’re affected. I doubt that the answer is the same for everyone, and it might not be the same for most people at all times.
If there’s a quickly changing situation at work or at home, this might mean that you want all your email in one queue.
If work or home is resulting in highly fraught email, you might want the non-fraught one as a refuge.
And you might have privacy concerns which mean that you absolutely don’t want the both of them in one queue.
A data point from me: I was much more stressed when I had my emails joint. I’d say that in the long run you want to have them separated even if you really enjoy your job.
When sitting down to design one’s life happiness is a worthy goal. In today’s world our online life requires a large amount of attention and as such has a large influence on us, namely our happiness.
The question I’d like to ask is whether it is more likely to make you happy if you have one queue of e-mail messages that incorporates your work and personal life.
A pro argument could be made that by incorporating them you are creating a holistic smooth lifestyle. Such an argument is similar to advocating living near your workplace and having friendships with co-workers outside of the office.
An easy counter argument could be made that the workplace is a natural greenhouse of tension and by separating personal and business you are more likely to separate happiness from tension.
Ideas?
It seems to me that it would be easy enough to do experiments (maybe a month long) to find out how you’re affected. I doubt that the answer is the same for everyone, and it might not be the same for most people at all times.
If there’s a quickly changing situation at work or at home, this might mean that you want all your email in one queue.
If work or home is resulting in highly fraught email, you might want the non-fraught one as a refuge.
And you might have privacy concerns which mean that you absolutely don’t want the both of them in one queue.
A data point from me: I was much more stressed when I had my emails joint. I’d say that in the long run you want to have them separated even if you really enjoy your job.