workin' monday through friday....

I just read an article about being reachable for your work all day long and how some companies have started to try to Change that.
Yes, those -let's be reachable all the time-, by mail and phone has become a big part and problem for many people.
We feel it is not healthy to think 24 hourse the day of our work. 
As much we may love it to be flexible and being part of the working team, we need our private time and time to rest, to think about other things.
It is not only a problem, when you have a family. Also as a single it can make your life unworthy, stress you out and bring you to the point where you start asking yourself- is it all really worth it?
Of corse most CEO don't think about that much, cos they have to be reachable all day long, even on holiday. 
We have become so use to this, that we forgot, that we are humans, not machienes.
Some companies in Germany have started around three, four years  ago to change the  habits of their Company.
Though it started through the "unions", it became more and more a success and policy of the work, to not interfere your holiday, to not send you e-mails after work, or when you're on holiday. They even use programs which can take away the e-mail and send it to someone who is on duty.
Sounds like a good start and now some people in politics have spoken out for making a law about the right to get your freetime. 
The reactions from other companies where like, they all work like this already, they don't need this.
Well, which it would be true.
Actually, just now such a law would be quite a good idea, even know, that this will be a challange to control, but those 24/ 7 thing has gone much to far. 
Just alone when I think about nursing, where many, far to many are expecting you to be reachable all day long, to be flexible no matter what, to drop your holiday and work instead, to work over hourse, no matter how tired you are.
You even get beat when you are not doing it or seemed to fail. We have mobiles next to us when we sleep for your call and then people call for nothing and never think about that you work in the day and need your rest and sleep. Your family won't be happy hearing a ring in the middle of the night for you. 
And then you won't get money for being there all the time. 
If you're lucky they give you time but when to take it, no one knows, cos mostly, there is no time left when you work as a nurse, a doctor or something similar in this area.
This is just an example. 
So what have we become to do this?
Why are we not changing this faster and harder?
Fear. It is. Mostly and not knowing that you have to fight for your own rights.
To many did this without saying no. The warnings where laughed out. Now we are in trouble, but have so hard to change not only the way we work, also what we expect of others. 
Our trust in life is less then two generations before. 
Yes anything can happen, bad and good, but we can't be there all the time for everyone. Call it faith or whatever, even though sometimes it's hard to take a situation but life is not getting easier this way or better or saver. 
Trust in life again. Take it as it comes. Even if it brings you big challenges.
How can you think that your life depends on other people? It only depends on you!
Make it or leave it, but stop telling other people are to blame.
Think about it and maybe  we come together to change the habit that we must have to be reachable 24 hourse.
 
LOVE & LIGHT