Radio Programme: workaholics

In class, we've listen to a radio programme about people who work a lot and did many things at the same time and its effect on people, and their productivity.

We heard about a man named Joe who multitasked a lot: he made 2 phone calls while sending messages and checking his e-mails, he also typed e-mails while driving his car.
Personally, I think that multitasking can be useful in the computer for example. It helps me doing things faster and I save a lot of time I would have wasted if I didn’t do it that way. For example, I listen to music while chatting and doing my homework. Many people says that your work cannot be as efficient as if you do it without multitasking. But I think that it depends on each person and their way of managing things. I’m very used to doing it, so for me it’s more useful, instead of listening to music, then chatting and after that doing my homework, I save time and do it all together. But as I said: it depends on each person. Someone who is not used to multitasking may affect its productivity.

Another example is Christina, who didn’t use as much technology as Joe, but she had 2 cell phones: one for personal calls and the other to use it for her work.
In my opinion, I think it could be very useful to know weather if it is a personal one or form work. But many people do not do this because it’s a bit uncomfortable to carry around two cell phones everywhere. And besides, nowadays, technology is so advanced that the cell phone can identify the person who is calling.

In the radio programme they also talked about an experiment which consisted on working wherever and whenever people wanted as log as they finished. And the results were very good: people worked more than before! And I think this is grate because people know they have a deadline and they can administrate their time if they work at home and at any time they want instead of going all mornings at work and sitting in front of a desk.
I think it’s excellent or at least for me, because sometimes I’m not in a really good mood at the morning and I’m not very efficient. So what I’d do those days would be doing something else and in the afternoon when I’m better I do all the work I didn’t do before. Besides it’s much more inspiring to go to the park, seat on a bench and do you’re work, or sitting in a café while doing it rather than being behind your desk, always looking at the same thing, surrounded by the same things every single day.

To conclude I would say that although it is very important to be responsible at work, we must have an intermediate point were everything is not only work, because we also have an intellectual and familiar life to develop.
And to perform well at work, the person must have a balance. Anyway, this equilibrium is always the most difficult pint to find.