Turning off from the stress and pressure of work is becoming more and more difficult as we embrace new and better quality smartphones.

Just over three quarters regularly checked emails while on holiday this year, and 65 per cent actually spent time responding.

A huge nine in ten people admit they never feel fully switched off and instead worry about what’s happening at work all the time.

InTheNews.co.uk

Film from the era of true Public Service before the cancer of privatisation had taken hold. These British Transport Films (BTF) were made available, from the British Transport Commission’s offices at 25 Savile Row, London W1. for free loan to anyone who wanted to show them.

At Woodhead, a century-old tunnel is replaced by a new one. Farther north, Argyllshire is the scene of an experiment in co-ordinated road haulage service. At Whitemoor, Cambridgeshire, marshalling of goods wagons is being speeded by radio. In Bristol, bus operators are analysing the problems of congestion that apply to most modern cities. Between Calais and Dover, the Golden Arrow steamer, running into mid-Channel fog, is brought safely into harbour by radar.

Photographed by: Ronald Craigen
Additional Photography: James Ritchie
Assistant Director: James Garrett
Assistant Cameraman: Cyril Moorhead
Assistant Editor: Margot Fleischner
Music by: Temple Abady
Conducted by: Frederick Lewis
Written and Directed by: Michael Clarke
Produced by: Edgar Anstey

I began my journey into architecture through working for a conservation practice. Within months, I knew I wanted more so I embarked on a seven-year course to become an architect. I really wanted to be part of something great.

However, I was quickly disillusioned with what architecture schools actually perceive as architecture.

I’m not the only one who has found architectural education a bit of a mind boggle. With a lack of structural knowledge taught at universities, it is easy to see why we create so many terrible buildings. We were hardly taught anything about the progression in architecture or, for example, about how to create real homes that were comfortable.

In fact, I don’t recall one person studying or designing homes in our final year; the topic was “too small to count”.

A Guardian Professional by Louise Priestman.

The average person spends 14.5 minutes off-loading problems and gripes on friends and family when they get home from work, a survey found.

However, replaying our worries and whines helps relieve stress levels over the course of our working lives, the study claimed.

A poll of 2,000 people found that we are finding it increasingly harder to shed our worries after leaving the office.

via Daily Mail

A word like “retirement” implies that there are only backward looks, a separation from the world as it was. Instead of a dynamic week, broken up only by each weekend’s treasures, many conjure the week of the retired as a lake’s calm surface, with no need to stuff all errands into two days. How we spend our time may depend in part on who we were, but for those of us lucky enough to make the switch while healthy, our time is also determined by what we choose to do.

via Buffalo News