Seems Office Nomads may have unkowingly placed our fingers on the pulse of this whacked-out, work-addled society. I noticed while perusing the New York Times that one of their top-10 most e-mailed stories right now is about this very subject.

“What’s going on now is insane,” he said, assuring me that he used the term intentionally. “Living a good life requires a kind of balance, a bit of quiet. There are questions about the limits of the brain and the body, and there are parallels here to the environmental movement.” (Dr. Levy coined the term “information environmentalism.”)

The commentary was written by Mark Bittman who describes his efforts to escape work by taking a true day off each week after years of bieng the kind of guy who checks his e-mail in bed at night and as soon as he wakes up in the morning. For the past six months though, come Friday night, he’s been shutting off his phone, his Blackberry, his computers, his TVs and even his MP3 players and disconnecting.

It’s a pretty interesting piece. Lines like, “…I realized that a 70-hour week was nearly as productive as an 80-hour one…” make it a great example of why we put together the last post on finding a work-life balance. I also have to say that I love two terms I learned in the article: “secular sabbath” and “information environmentalism.”

Thanks to Flickr user IamSAM for the use of the photo.