
“Please write in September,” such an automatic response is unlikely to cheer up those employees who have spent the whole summer at work. Perhaps the only consolation for them is the realization that vacations are not what they used to be. Today you rarely meet a person who is able to switch and forget about work for a week or two. Many people continue to read mail while lying on the beach. Probably everyone once shirked from work. Now employees are taking a break.
Everything was much easier before. It was easy to find out if Bob went on vacation from accounting - just check if he was present at his workplace. But at the same time, BlackBerry office phones, one of the main symbols of career success in the 2000s, were given out only to those who were ready to use them after 18:00.