Remember the 40 hour work week?
Today is Labor Day, our country’s only official celebration of the labor movement and the good people who brought us the 40 hour work week.
But these days, with so many technologies that connect us to our colleagues 24 hours a day and seven days a week, it’s common to receive and reply to e-mails from your boss or a client while you are sitting naked in bed.
Author and journalist Maggie Jackson has been writing about the effect of technology on families, relationships and human mind for more than a decade. She tells us how the greatest gift we can give each other today is simply our undivided attention.
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