Friday, 5 May 2023

Pause - for Thought!

We expect so much from on-line mail

Such avalanches overwhelm;

Time was when letters, now called “snail”

Kept things neat - our hands on helm.


Must we respond – without delay?

Should emails all be saved “in case"?

When a quick delete sends them away;

Do we save trees when we efface?


The tension mounts, we work from home

Isolated behind screens

New on-line colleagues are unknown;

Time off henceforth the 'stuff of dreams'.

 

No wonder stress is on the rise

‘Burn Out’: a registered  disease

Is this way of working wise?

Give us back our Down Time please!

 

Is this way life has to be,

With strikes and riots for more pay?

What happened to those breaks for tea?

A.I., maybe, leads us astray!


(c) Poet in the woods 2023




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