Week 5

I found this week’s reading to be quite insightful into the future of time management. The points it raises towards the rise of technology and the struggle to find hours in the day is extremely relevant to us as graduates in 2016. The previous thoughts of technology acting as an aid in a worker’s time management was something almost everyone would’ve thought to be true. But as we look back onto how fast technology has advanced in the last 30 years and how fast the modern western world lives, it’s easy to assess how technology has created superhuman expectations of workers from their employers and from the pace that the world expects things.

The expectations from this broadens out to affect other areas and groups of people opening up the discussion of how time poverty affects today’s working women.  I found the way Barbara Adam has analysed this to be very robotic and analytical. She expresses the idea that there’s working time and leisure time. Where women become time poor in the modern age is where leisure time is concerned; with women’s ‘leisure time’ being grouped into the same field as spending ‘quality time’ with their children, leaving less time for actual leisure, undoing the work life balance for many. I think this is a pretty accurate analysis for lots of working women who become regarded as less professional for parenting reasons. It also helps us to consider the concept of work life balance in an age that offer so little time to spend quality hours in the day.