Word: decompressions
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...like exercising or relaxing with friends or family--or add greater stress to your body. Indeed, using many of our most cherished time-saving gadgets can backfire. Cell phones and mobile e-mail devices--to give just two examples--make it harder to get away from the office to decompress. Working from home may, in some cases, exacerbate the situation because it isolates employees while simultaneously blurring the line between work and leisure...
Okay, Dean Lewis. You’re right: Harvard students need to decompress more. But, let’s say that I actually do want to take your advice, and my idea of “unstructured” time well-spent is shooting the breeze with some friends after a long day of studying. The problem is, where am I to go on campus...
...developed by Microsoft, of all companies, and hacked by those enterprising programmers, DivX squishes movies down to fewer than 700 megabytes, small enough to fit on a CD. To watch a movie in DivX format, all you need is the DivX codec program, which tells your computer how to decompress the file, and a DivX player. You can download both player and codec for free on DivX websites such as www.gdivx.com and divx.ctw.cc...
...driven CEO, the mixing of work and play creates a beautiful sight: workers in front of their terminals into the wee hours. "I don't think there is leisure time anymore. New-media workers don't take time off and decompress; their idea of time off is playing Quake on the LAN [local area network]," says Steve Baldwin, co-author of the forthcoming book Netslaves...
...expert came on for five minutes (after rejecting a fake-leather binder offered to her by a staff member "to make you look more authoritative"). As soon as the show ended, guards whisked all the participants offstage and out of the building. "There was no chance for them to decompress or come back into the real world after what was an emotional experience," the guest recalls. "There was a real assembly-line quality. It was ruthless...