[rbourke]

Software engineers (and many other information workers) are lying to themselves if they think this is even possible (to segment).

Proof: a large number of breakthrough designs / problem solving occurs when I am in the shower, on the toilet, or lying in bed going to sleep... it has long been proven that information workers are solving problems 24/7 365.25 days a year - you are never paid 'by the hour' for your work - your brain is solving problems 24/7 non-stop.

Indeed, this is precisely why allowing staff to work from home and minimizing enforced 'attendance hours' works.

You want to blur the lines between work and life... quite simply because they are already blurred. It's like the infamous 80s/90s Waterfall SDLC - it's like trying to make the waterfall run uphill (all projects end up Agile in the end). So why fight the inevitable - you are only stressing yourself by doing that (as proven by the evidence in this article - the 'segmentation seekers' are trying to achieve the impossible!) - and it is medically proven that stress causes cancer, diabetes, heart disease... and death (2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine). Corollary to that: blur all of life and live healthy and happy, or attempt to segment and suffer stress and die painfully.