Overview
As each year goes by, we find ourselves working harder and harder.\xa0 We spend more time at work, thinking about work, bringing work home with us.\xa0 Work now invades our personal life in a way that would have been unimaginable only a few years ago.\xa0 Remember when the media used to talk about having to educate people for leisure?\xa0 The very notion raises a bitter or incredulous laugh these days.\xa0 In the last twenty years there has been an unbelievable increase in the volume of things people are having to do and the stress that people are under.\xa0 High levels of overload have become the norm.\xa0 Especially since the collapse of the banks people are being told things like they have to work smarter, not harder and do more with less and that theyre lucky to have a job.\xa0 What keeps people awake at night is exactly this idea that they are lucky to have a job.\xa0 There is also the constant fear that no matter how well they perform, that the company could easily decide to dispense with them or move all the work to a cheaper economy (e.g. Eastern Europe, the Far East).\xa0 As a result people do work harder and harder, trying to show more and more willing.\xa0 This book wont stop organizations from moving their operations to cheaper economies.\xa0 But it will show that this hamster-on-the-wheel approach wont work and that there is an alternative. \xa0
