The Stress Mouse
January 14th, 2008 by Cali & Jody
We ran across this recent blog post about a new technology that would help people recognize when they were stressed at the office. We thought this was funny, and perhaps a little chilling, that people would turn to their mouse to tell them they were about to blow a gasket.
We have another tool you could use to tell you if you’re stressed—it’s called the human body. The fight-or-flight response is a robust but also well-calibrated tool for responding to external or internal stressors. In other words, when you’re stressed, you don’t need a computer to tell you. You need only acknowledge the misery that you’re already experiencing.
The bigger issue is how you respond to that stress. There are countless relaxation techniques that you can try, but the best thing you can do to eliminate stress is to remove the stressor. If you’re stuck in a rigid, inhumane work schedule, you can do all the deep breathing or desk yoga you want, but there is no substitute for having the freedom to live and work the way that suits you best.
We don’t need another workplace Band-Aid. We need the workplace to catch up with the times.
Love the sarcasm as I too have earned a degree from Condescension University!
Wow, I really loved your humor!
Cheers,
Ellesse
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3193480.ece
This technology takes employee distrust further than ever before and takes an alarming step to the Big Brother environment that “1984″ displays. Not many people I know would ever work under these conditions!!
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