The stressful organization

• job (and hence) task protection

• ‘risk syndication’

  • get everyone committed
    • everyone gets the paper
  • ‘cover your back’
    • always ‘copy to all’

• always available

  • mobile ‘phones are always on - even on holiday

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Always available - person who always took phone on holiday but went to places where there was no signal - Nepal, Peru.

Always available - taking work home - one person printing out up to 200 e-mail messages to read on the train.