“My employer monitors my e-mail and internet usage at work and tracks my location through the GPS feature of my cell phone. I receive work-related text messages or voice mails almost every day of the week and often after normal scheduled work hours. These messages are often seeking information or making comments that could easily have waited until the next business day. I am frustrated that I always seem connected to work with little private time to pursue my own interests. What advice could you give me on how to manage the job stress of working in a technologically connected work environment? Is there any way I can capture some private time without making it appear to my employer that I’m not motivated to constantly improve my job performance? Also, under what conditions does my employer have to pay me overtime for such work?”
