“To be permanently switched on is also to switch off to what takes time to be seen,” writes Cohen. “A lot of good ideas, as well as some of life’s deeper satisfactions, can get lost that way.” Cohen says companies are beginning to perceive these types of costs. Volkswagon isn’t the only one–Thierry Breton, the chief executive of Atos, the French information technology services giant, has said he plans to ban internal e-mail altogether from 2014. Breton says workers are wasting hours of their lives on internal messages at home and work. To read the entire article, click here. For more about the value of switching off, read Is it Time to Unplug? and Tech Support for the Hopelessly Connected, by Elisha Goldstein.
