Comments on: The Current State of the Work-Life Balance Battle http://www.slowdownfast.com/the-current-state-of-the-work-life-balance-battle/ Brief Motivational Interventions Mirroring the Time-Limited Reality of Human Existence Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:11:54 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: David B. Bohl at ReflectionsCoachingLLC.com http://www.slowdownfast.com/the-current-state-of-the-work-life-balance-battle/comment-page-1/#comment-48 David B. Bohl at ReflectionsCoachingLLC.com Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:54:38 +0000 http://www.slowdownfast.com/blog/?p=139#comment-48 Ilyse, Absolutely! Not to get too dramatic here, but these "insulated cities" you refer to are starting to resemble the company towns of the late 1800s where residents were dependent on the support of a single corporation for their daily living needs - stores, schools, hospitals, and housing. Those company towns were set up for the same reasons these "perks" are being offered today - to make it easier not for the workers to spend more time on their personal lives, but to spend more time working. Ilyse,

Absolutely! Not to get too dramatic here, but these “insulated cities” you refer to are starting to resemble the company towns of the late 1800s where residents were dependent on the support of a single corporation for their daily living needs – stores, schools, hospitals, and housing. Those company towns were set up for the same reasons these “perks” are being offered today – to make it easier not for the workers to spend more time on their personal lives, but to spend more time working.

]]> By: Ilyse Shapiro http://www.slowdownfast.com/the-current-state-of-the-work-life-balance-battle/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Ilyse Shapiro Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:31:21 +0000 http://www.slowdownfast.com/blog/?p=139#comment-47 I couldn’t agree with you more re: today’s blog, “The Current State of the Work-Life Balance Battle.” Earlier this year, Fortune magazine ranked Google as its #1 company in the US to work for. I couldn’t believe it! How companies think they can pass off providing oil changes on your car, on-site restaurants and laundry pick up at work as providing work/life balance is amazing. All these firms are saying is that by providing these “creature comforts” they want you to work more hours in their little insulated city to the point where you don’t even see the light of day, let alone your own family and friends (or dry cleaner). I couldn’t agree with you more re: today’s blog, “The Current State of the Work-Life Balance Battle.” Earlier this year, Fortune magazine ranked Google as its #1 company in the US to work for. I couldn’t believe it! How companies think they can pass off providing oil changes on your car, on-site restaurants and laundry pick up at work as providing work/life balance is amazing. All these firms are saying is that by providing these “creature comforts” they want you to work more hours in their little insulated city to the point where you don’t even see the light of day, let alone your own family and friends (or dry cleaner).

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