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Personal Tasks at Work: An Exploration

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Technology has changed the way that people work, socialize, and generally live their lives. Especially, technology has changed the way that those distinct parts of a person's life intermingle. Previous work has largely focused on different styles of work-life balance, and most of the industry contributions to this problem focus on preventing work tasks from leaking into one's personal life. However, little work has been done to investigate the ways that personal tasks impact the work day. We present the results of a survey of 93 employed people, as they relate to personal tasks that people do at work. We consider the context, consequences, and persistency of these tasks, and propose some design implications that could better reinforce the individual boundaries that people have between their work and personal lives.

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    CSCW '17 Companion: Companion of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
    February 2017
    472 pages
    ISBN:9781450346887
    DOI:10.1145/3022198
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    1. personal tasks
    2. productivity
    3. work
    4. work breaks
    5. work-life balance

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    • (2024)Bodywork at Work: Attending to Bodily Needs in Gig, Shift, and Knowledge WorkProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3642416(1-13)Online publication date: 11-May-2024

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