[摘要]五分之一的人每周在床上工作2-10小時。在這樣的一個世界中，不論何時何地，通過網絡參與商務會議，應答上午來電和信函似乎成為社交禮儀所必需。在床上用電子產品工作這種做法有毒。

1 in 5 of us spend between 2 to 10 hours per week working from bed.

五分之一的人每周在床上工作2-10小時。

There was an interesting article by Sue Shellenberger in The Wall Street Journal last year about the increasing amount of work being performed in bed. It has a lot to say about several things, including the increasingly international nature of even small business, as well as physical health and implications of omnipresent technology for personal relationships.

刊登在去年一份《華爾街日報》上的蘇·謝林博格的文章，獨到地關注了越來越多的人在床上完成工作這一趨勢。這一趨勢的形成因素屈指難數，涵蓋了商務信息化的加速、個人身體健康以及無所不在的電子科技發展對人際關系的影響等等諸多方面。

Ms. Shellenberger reports, "Researchers who study work habits say a new generation reared on mobile devices is increasingly accustomed to using them while propped against pillows, lying down, or in a fetal curl." For example, 500 workers out of 1000 polled by Good Technology, a mobile-security software company, say they read and respond to business email from bed. Another study of British workers discovered one in five employees spends between two and ten hours per week working from bed. Or, annecdotally, take Laura Stack, a Denver productivity expert, who has seen a doubling of clients who work from the sleep space.

謝林博格女士提出“靠在枕頭上、躺著、甚至播放胎兒曲......研究人們工作行為的學者指出當今這一代人愈發地依賴移動設備。”舉個例子，1000個博谷科技的員工中有半數人稱自己會在床上收發商務信函。另一項研究指出五分之一的英國員工一周會花2-10小時在床上辦公。或是一個更有趣的例子，勞拉·斯黛珂，丹弗的生產專家，了解到大多數客戶是在臥室完成工作。

There are a number of reasons for this. One prime reason is simply that we live in an increasingly "flat earth" world where business is a 24 hour a day proposition. In such a world it is sometimes de rigueur to communicate at odd hours by conference call or email. To fully service an international clientele with sensitivity and courtesy it may mean conveniencing your client's business hours, not your own.

出現這種情形，理由有千千萬。最首要的原因是我們所處的地球變得信息扁平化了，商務往來24小時不間斷。在這樣的一個世界中，不論何時何地，通過網絡參與商務會議，應答上午來電和信函似乎成為社交禮儀所必需。

Another reason is simply device addiction, an increasing phenomenon. Dan Sieberg, a technology reporter and ABC News contributor, wrote a book a couple of years ago called The Digital Diet in which he discussed his compulsive use of email, handhelds, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, iPhones, BlackBerries, etc. He wrote his book after finding himself taken over by technology in every aspect of his life. He states, "My wife had a nickname for me, 'Glowworm,' because my face was constantly illuminated by some sort of screen in bed."

另一個原因是人們對電子設備的沉迷，這個現象越來越普遍。科技記者以及ABC新聞的供稿人的丹西伯格在其幾年前的著作《數字飲食》中指出，人們似乎無法離開電郵、掌上電腦、臉書、推特、領英、蘋果、黑莓等等電子產品。他寫這本書的初衷是發現電子產品似乎占據了他生活的每一個方面。他強調說“我的妻子戲稱我為’發光蟲兒’，僅僅是因為當我在床上盯著屏幕時，我的臉在屏幕的燈光中熠熠發亮。”

The implication for relationships of this phenomenon is pretty obvious. It's not too sexy or conducive to any sort of intimate personal communication with whoever shares your bed.

這種現象所暗示的點十分明確，那就是這種做法對于和你同床共枕的人來說并不性感。

But perhaps the most deleteriouseffect of pillow technology on the bedtime entrepreneur is its simple physical implications. It's damn uncomfortable and leads to all sorts of aches and pains. Ergonomics experts particularly warn about the lumbar implications of multitasking for long periods of time in bed.

在床上用電子產品工作這種做法有毒，最明顯的體現就是身體上的損害。這尼瑪，既不舒服又會招來病痛。人體工學專家特別警告稱長時間的床上辦公會導致腰椎勞損。

Finally, technology enabled bedtime work encourages insomnia. Sue Shellenberger cites Russell Rosenberg of the National Sleep Foundation who says light from our screens suppresses the sleep hormone melatonin.

最后要說的是，這種做法還會導致失眠。蘇·謝林博格引用全國睡眠基金會的魯塞爾·羅森博格的話說就是：屏幕光源會導致睡眠褪黑素的減少，從而導致睡眠質量不佳。

My advice? Work where you work and sleep where you sleep and n'er let the twain interface. For, as William Shakespeare puts it in Macbeth:

我的建議？該在哪兒工作在哪兒工作，該在哪兒睡覺在哪兒睡覺，萬不能讓兩者有所牽涉。這里，引用莎士比亞在《麥克白》中所寫到的：

"Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care,

The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,

Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,

Chief nourisher in life's feast."

“無辜的睡眠連起了關懷的衣袖，每天的死亡，遍體鱗傷的苦工沐浴，還有給那些傷殘的腦袋涂的膏。大自然的主菜就是生命中提供營養的主食。”

[發布者：yezi]

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