Finding Your Balance

摘要

Smartphones and ever-growing workloads have broken down the walls between home and office. Fortunately, architects are finding creative ways to manage their time.our request was simple: Tell us about your challenges with balancing work and life. Clearly architects have spent some time pondering this issue, because they responded to our email blast with passionate and insightful missives-hundreds of them. We heard from individuals Skyping at all hours with clients in China. We heard from an intern working nights as an Outback Steakhouse server to make ends meet. We heard from single moms juggling child-care pickup with client meetings. We heard about how the pervasive culture of long hours at many firms can be traced back to the all-but-mandated all-nighters in architecture school, and how the flailing economy and threat of layoffs only exacerbate the stress.