A few weeks into Italy¡¯s first coronavirus lockdown in March last year, Andrea Pestarino started setting a 5:30pm alarm as a reminder it was time to turn off his laptop and go play football with his kids in the garden.
The 42-year-old innovation manager said the trick helped him strike a better work-life balance after his engineering firm¡¯s sudden move to remote work pushed him to spend longer hours glued to the computer screen.
¡°At the beginning switching off was difficult, as I felt guilty for being away from the office and this prompted me to do more,¡± Pestarino said by phone. ¡°I used to bring forward things that I could have easily done the next day.¡±
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