“I originally welcomed the mobile phone as it seemed to me that it would enable you to work from anywhere. On the mobile, who was to know if you were sitting on the branch of a tree or sitting in an office? But it instead had the opposite effect: instead of freeing us from the office, it allowed the office to take away our freedom.” IfsKnowsTreeEffectsOfficeSittingOppositesPhonesBranchesMobileMobile Phones Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“We have to wonder whether digital technology, rather than making it easier to communicate, is actually doing the opposite. We now sit alone at a keyboard, firing off zeros and ones into the ether. Offices are silent.” WonderTechnologyEasierOfficeOppositesSilentCommunicateDigitalKeyboardsFiringDigital Technology Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“When stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench. As the tedious mornings dragged on, how I would long for the lunch hour, when I would be able to escape the torture of the office and stroll over to the churchyard and into the comforting wooden embrace of one of its benches.” YearsLongWould BeAbleJobsHoursMorningOfficeYears AgoEmbraceStuckHatedTortureLunchComfortingBenchesTedious Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We're reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside.” EnoughSeemsCryOfficeSummerBirdWinterMathStuck Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That's not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in.” LongHas BeensDiesPeriodsOfficeSlaverySeriesListsBoredThings To DoBoredomThrownCircusOccasionalRacksReally Living Book:Brave Old World: A Month-by-Month Guide to Husbandry, or the Fine Art of Looking After Yourself Source: Brave Old World: A Month-by-Month Guide to Husbandry, or the Fine Art of Looking After Yourself
