weisureとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

weisure (uncountable)

1. (neologism) The merging of work and leisure activities.
   • 2009, Dalton Conley, Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety:

     I call how we spend our time (I would say "free" time, but that would obscure the point that this once hallowed bounary has broken down) instrumental leisure or weisure (i.e., work かつ leisure combined), since the info-economy puts a premium on quk, shrt trms tht cn b txtd fst & rmmbrd easily.

   • 2010, Vincent R. Waldron, Jeffrey W. Kassing, Managing Risk in Communication Encounters, page 222:

     Workers choose the weisure lifestyle when they monitor the BlackBerry while on vacation or post pictures to Facebook between business meetings. The blending of leisure and work is a creative and ubiquitous lifestyle choice […]

   • 2015, Darrin Patrick, Amie Patrick, The Dude's Guide to Marriage: Ten Skills Every Husband Must Develop to Love His Wife Well:

     Sociologists have been throwing around the concept of weisure a lot in the past few years. Weisure, the blurring of work and leisure, was directed at the encroachment of work into rest.

   • 2018 April 13, “Let’s go out for a drink after work! The relation between leisure time spent with colleagues and employees’ life satisfaction”, in Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, volume 33, number 1:

     New communication technologies have enabled us to complete private issues during working time and vice versa, leading to phenomena coined as weisure.

参考

• business before pleasure