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Time to Go Home: Work-Life Balance Issues in Ethics - V. 8, N. 1 Winter 1997 Time to Go Home Long Hours Put the Squeeze on Workers and Their Families By Miriam Schulman A photograph in the morning paper shows a group of grown-ups coasting down a yellow spiral slide. Are they taking turns with their toddlers at the park? No, they are enjoying the office of the '90s — complete with amusements like slides to speed them from one floor of the building to another. Silicon Valley lawyers report that their offices supply them with catered dinners, and engineers' workplaces come complete with cots for their cubicles. Although these amenities are always presented as perks, they raise a question: Don't these people want to go home? Of course they do — but not without their cellular phones, fax machines, and modems just in case they have a free moment that might be filled with business. Full Article: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v8n1/timetogohome.html


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