{"id":8895,"date":"2025-10-28T16:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=8895"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:52:19","slug":"the-infinite-workday-and-ksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2025\/10\/28\/the-infinite-workday-and-ksa\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Infinite Workday\u2018 and KSA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This \u201cinfinite workday\u201d is becoming the norm. According to Microsoft\u2019s latest Work Trend Index, nearly 30 percent of employees check email late at night, while 40 percent are online by early morning. The average Saudi worker now faces a flood of 117 emails and 153 Teams messages daily, with interruptions every two minutes \u2014 a pattern that has blurred the line between work and rest.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3m4bfbp3h2c2p\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreifcb4l7xvqxvy72ep2msct4yudpzyuk3acscmqrjmuo2lt25nzlpa\" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode=\"system\"><p lang=\"en\">An interesting discussion on that work\/life (im)balance, and a suggestion that AI might help manage the information flow (although it might also put people out of work&#8230;)<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3m4bfbp3h2c2p?ref_src=embed\">[image or embed]<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gary R. Bunt (<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">@garyrbunt.bsky.social<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3m4bfbp3h2c2p?ref_src=embed\">28 October 2025 at 16:50<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This \u201cinfinite workday\u201d is becoming the norm. According to Microsoft\u2019s latest Work Trend Index, nearly 30 percent of employees check email late at night, while 40 percent are online by early morning. The average Saudi worker now faces a flood of 117 emails and 153 Teams messages daily, with interruptions every two minutes \u2014 a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,937,277,114],"tags":[85,279,55],"class_list":["post-8895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-ksa","category-saudi-arabia","category-saudi-arabia-internet","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-ksa","tag-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8896,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8895\/revisions\/8896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}