Time to switch off and disconnect from the digital world
When I called psychologist, Patricia Murray was just back from a holiday abroad. One of her abiding vacation memories is of “men on the beach and at the pool talking shop and loudly giving orders on their phones while their families splashed about in the pool”, something which “entirely jarred with the surroundings of blue sky and easygoing chatter”.
This blurring of boundaries between work and holiday also spoiled the family fun, she says, because those making work calls were “not in the zone of relaxed holidays”, and tended to be “irate and short with the children”. How, Murray asks now, would the children remember that holiday?
