Job stress and respite relief: Overcoming high-tech tethers

Abstract

Modem telecommunications technology is rapidly reducing our ability to go off-line. The above quotes illustrate the growing trend for jobs to expand into our personal space and time and to dominate our lives regardless where we may “be” geographically at any particular moment. An evening or weekend at home or a vacation from work that used to serve as an escape from relentless job demands have become merely a change in venue for the persistent