I always felt that California laws are much better then rest of the country as far as work/life balance is concerned like for example California was the first state to have a law called Paid Family Leave(PFL).
I'm very dissappointed to see a law which prevents lawsuits being filed against corporations for overtime payments, gives a clear/unprecedented powers to Corporations to expect people to work weekends and long hours without any legal recourse for employees.
Read the full article @ http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/26/175252&from=rss

posted at: 00:34 | category: /worklifebalance | permanent link to this entry

There is an article on Mercury news about the topic of Over time in high-tech industry @ http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_10357223
To any silicon valley person this is definitley one of the major concerns as software companies are becoming very demanding and at the same time the laws allow them a free ride to ask people to put in as many hours as they want.

posted at: 00:47 | category: /worklifebalance | permanent link to this entry

There is an article on Yahoo @ http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=Atm.KMBqoZ2JlyDnF3OMn2Z72PAI;_ylu=X3oDMTBiZ3MwbHJsBHBvcwM0BHRhYgMw/SIG=12koilksg/**http%3A//us.lrd.yahoo.com/SIG=118bjsg14/**http%253A//gmy.news.yahoo.com/v/9240050 which talks about 4 day workweek of 10 hours.
I strongly disagree with the benefits of this because I feel that it might work in the case of hourly paid workers but it is dangerous for software professionals(who are not paid by the hour) working in high-tech industry because i feel that this is just an invitation for employers to ask employees to work 40 hours in 4 days and then the weekends.

posted at: 03:45 | category: /worklifebalance | permanent link to this entry

I came across a very nice article about work-life balance in this 24x7 , always on , culture.
I don't know about others but in general I have seen an increasing demand from employers to be working in a 24x7 mode.The problem becomes more complex when your immediate team members or reports are distibuted in 3-4 timezones.
The problem becomes more complex for white collar jobs , who are considered as "exempt" and expected to work 24x7 without getting overtime pay etc.There is a nice Slashdot article about it .
And in this internet connected world it is very hard to draw a line between work and life.
We will see how future will shape up , my current belief is that we will be moving to a per hour basis, but time will tell.

posted at: 03:00 | category: /worklifebalance | permanent link to this entry