Yet another example of wanton intrusion of personal space by employers coupled with the dubious goal of measuring performance. It is unclear what this passive monitoring achieves. It would be just as simple to render work devices inaccessible over the weekends so there is some space created between work and life. Similarly, incentives could be developed for focus on fitness and healthy lifestyle instead of non-stop monitoring by way of wearable devices. The elephant in the room is lack of focus on mental health. What could go a long way is finding ways to remove stigma associated with regular therapy - something everyone could benefit from. The idea is misbegotten, very easily gamed and abused. Needless to say, this is a very sad waste of resources by the institutions of higher learning noted as contributors to this research.
An expat desi friend and I were discussing what it means to return to India when you have cobbled together a life in a foreign country no matter how flawed and imperfect. We have both spent over a decade outside India and have kids who were born abroad and have spent very little time back home. Returning "home" is something a lot of new immigrants like L and myself think about. We want very much for that to be an option because a full assimilation into our country of domicile is likely never going to happen. L has visited India more often than I have and has a much better pulse on what's going on there. For me the strongest drag force working against my desire to return home is my experience of life as a woman in India. I neither want to live that suffocatingly sheltered existence myself nor subject J to it. The freedom, independence and safety I have had in here in suburban America was not even something I knew I could expect to have in India. I never knew what it felt t...
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