"You need to be able to take small breaks from work before you’ll be able to take long breaks from work, Funt said. “Before you can go to the Bahamas for a week, don’t you first need to learn how to tolerate an entire elevator ride without checking your email?” she asked. Funt’s consulting firm teaches corporate clients how to incorporate “white space”—a less new-agey way to say mindfulness—into their busy workdays. She suggested taking 10 seconds of “white space” after you turn off your ignition in the company parking lot, or whenever you get an email that throws you off your game. I don’t doubt that stopping, breathing, and focusing on the present moment is helpful, even rejuvenating, in the middle of the workday. But if a 10-second pause counts as a break, aren’t we redefining break in the wrong direction? After all, if finding small pockets of “white space” throughout our workdays raises our productivity and prevents burnout, what incentive do our bosses have to let us take vacations?"
Where are we right now, as humans?
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