Hi,
some time ago I remember reading an article on the BBC that many people nowadays are overflowed with information and because of modern technologies (Internet mostly) don't really stop working even after walking outside their workplace.

Because of this many suffer additional stress and generally have less time for themselves even on their free time.

I've myself made a strict line and it would have to be an emergency of national importance to get me to work after 5pm, or read work e-mail from home.

What about you, do you read your work e-mail at home?

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edit: Please do not move the thread to the 'About the members' section,
this is not about Sciforums members per se, but about modern working habits.

Sometimes.

Well, that's a yes. ;)

i'm in college, so i sorta live at work :)

Humm, do you work at your college?

work email?

sure,
in your case it's probably - Does not apply

I did receive a few work emails at home, but each case was to facilitate an office Internet access outage. Generally speaking, work emails remain at work. Matter of fact, recently I've started reading personal emails at work ;)

Here it makes little sense to bother with office correspondance at home; the resources required to action any request would be...at the office. I could go so far as to say that the majority of the work force in this country has similar email habits, although of course there's always the exceptions to the rule. I'd estimate roughly a 70%-30% split here; just an educated guess though.

Besides, my home PC is all about the fun.

Matter of fact, recently I've started reading personal emails at work ;)

That's where it starts, then your personal indulgence for email communication with other people will perhaps spread to chat rooms. Once there the works bandwidth will have a secure tunnelled connection being encrypted and re-rerouted through proxies to hide what conversations are being held. The eventually evolution from here is then the video conferencing connection, again tunnelled so any incriminating evidence is made garbled to the average user.

Before you know it one thing leads to another, a little bit of experimentation with a nearby tube of thermal paste, a scanner and a website where women flirt with loose men, you'll find yourself emailing certain revealing shots to your whole work email list with which then starts being applied to screen savers across the whole network.

Don't say it can't happen... if it does though you'll probably be a candidate for the television show "Big Brother".

Most people have a seperate work address and home address. In my case, I cannot access emails sent to the work address from home

My employer has set up that employees can check their work e-mail from a web interface.

Me too.

My employer has set up that employees can check their work e-mail from a web interface.

So your boss is promoting work at home. Better do it then....:D

Not really, we generally get to work in other countries a lot, where no work office is available.