"For example, the place where I work is devoting a lot of resources to making things available online--customer records, business e-mail access, business documents, databases, etc. It makes it convenient if you're out of the office but also may lead to people spending time at home linked to the office...the workplace leeching its way into the home. Or, if you're on the road, time "after hours" spent linked to the company stuff." That makes sense, Tom. It forces people to rely on different strategies (often personally determined rules of behavior) to set limits on WORK, rather than relying on environmental cues. "Another aspect: With more discourse occurring online, with an often more terse and pointed manner, one argument is that manner of exchange (terse) may influence RW communications." That's certainly a possibility, though I know some people who are VERY long-winded in their emails. Also, SHORTER messages may encourage more intricate interaction among people by creating a more enmeshed exchange of ideas, rather than conversations that are dominated by long-winded people who talk a lot to people who mostly just listen.
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