{"id":2787,"date":"2016-04-17T15:50:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T07:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/17\/the-art-of-finding-work-life-balance-with-your-smartphone\/"},"modified":"2016-04-17T15:50:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T07:50:09","slug":"the-art-of-finding-work-life-balance-with-your-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/17\/the-art-of-finding-work-life-balance-with-your-smartphone\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of finding work-life balance with your smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ap_212119156888\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.3.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzE0LzUzL0FQXzIxMjExOTE1LjRjZDNjLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/cb8bc7cf\/9ef\/AP_212119156888.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=The+art+of+finding+work-life+balance+with+your+smartphone&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F16%2Fwork-life-balance-phone%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F16%2Fwork-life-balance-phone%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>After a long day of work, you probably find yourself curled up on the couch, binge-watching Netflix, and&#8230;scrolling through work emails on your phone.<\/p>\n<p>Smartphones offer numerous apps to tackle tasks quickly both inside and outside the office. Often, though, that comes at the expense of your work-life balance.<\/p>\n<p>Employees are accessible 24\/7 through their smartphone, creating many workplaces where you&#8217;re expected to be available to answer questions<i> all the time<\/i>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s probably not good for your health \u2014 and, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/01\/opinion\/sunday\/why-you-hate-work.html?_r=0\">as studies have shown<\/a>, not good for your productivity in the long run, either.\u00a0But your smartphone doesn&#8217;t need to be the antagonist to your after work zen. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/16\/work-life-balance-phone\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/gadgets\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Gadgets<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/shonda-rhimes\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Shonda Rhimes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/jobs\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Jobs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/careers\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Careers<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/business\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Business<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/pSxm_plmLC0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long day of work, you probably find yourself curled up on the couch, binge-watching Netflix, and&#8230;scrolling through work emails on your phone. Smartphones offer numerous apps to tackle tasks quickly both inside and outside the office. Often, though, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/17\/the-art-of-finding-work-life-balance-with-your-smartphone\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}