Redefining Horizons

H ealthy balance between work and personal life is a challenge most professionals have willingly given up on, happily or otherwise. Distinction between the two, has all but vanished, as work-related activities have pervasively invaded personal and family time. For many, home has become nothing more than a place for ‘homemade food’, wash, change and a nap on one’s own bed. Spending most of the twenty-four hours at workplace or at work, even though physically present at home, is now considered an indispensable ingredient for upward mobility on the coveted corporate ladder. Being expected to stay in office beyond working hours or regularly required to carry work home, is considered synonymous with one’s arrival amongst the ‘ reckonable ’ and ‘ indispensables . It signals one’s proximity to the fountainhead of power. After all, for the coveted ‘Ferrari’ one needs to embrace monkhood of work. Reckonable Performance Indicator Being present mostly at work place or seen engaged ...