五分之一的人每周在床上工作2-10小时。

　　There was an interesting article by Sue Shellenberger in The Wall Street Journal last year about the increasing amount of work being performed in bed. It has a lot to say about several things, including the increasingly international nature of even small business, as well as physical health and implications of omnipresent technology for personal relationships.

　　刊登在去年一份《华尔街日报》上的苏·谢林博格的文章，独到地关注了越来越多的人在床上完成工作这一趋势。这一趋势的形成因素屈指难数，涵盖了商务信息化的加速、个人身体健康以及无所不在的电子科技发展对人际关系的影响等等诸多方面。

　　该睡觉时就睡觉！床上办公坏处多

　　Ms. Shellenberger reports, "Researchers who study work habits say a new generation reared on mobile devices is increasingly accustomed to using them while propped against pillows, lying down, or in a fetal curl." For example, 500 workers out of 1000 polled by Good Technology, a mobile-security software company, say they read and respond to business email from bed. Another study of British workers discovered one in five employees spends between two and ten hours per week working from bed. Or, annecdotally, take Laura Stack, a Denver productivity expert, who has seen a doubling of clients who work from the sleep space.

　　谢林博格女士提出“靠在枕头上、躺着、甚至播放胎儿曲......研究人们工作行为的学者指出当今这一代人愈发地依赖移动设备。”举个例子，1000个博谷科技的员工中有半数人称自己会在床上收发商务信函。另一项研究指出五分之一的英国员工一周会花2-10小时在床上办公。或是一个更有趣的例子，劳拉·斯黛珂，丹弗的生产专家，了解到大多数客户是在卧室完成工作。

　　There are a number of reasons for this. One prime reason is simply that we live in an increasingly "flat earth" world where business is a 24 hour a day proposition. In such a world it is sometimes de rigueur to communicate at odd hours by conference call or email. To fully service an international clientele with sensitivity and courtesy it may mean conveniencing your client's business hours, not your own.

　　出现这种情形，理由有千千万。最首要的原因是我们所处的地球变得信息扁平化了，商务往来24小时不间断。在这样的一个世界中，不论何时何地，通过网络参与商务会议，应答上午来电和信函似乎成为社交礼仪所必需。

　　Another reason is simply device addiction, an increasing phenomenon. Dan Sieberg, a technology reporter and ABC News contributor, wrote a book a couple of years ago called The Digital Diet in which he discussed his compulsive use of email, handhelds, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, iPhones, BlackBerries, etc. He wrote his book after finding himself taken over by technology in every aspect of his life. He states, "My wife had a nickname for me, 'Glowworm,' because my face was constantly illuminated by some sort of screen in bed."

　　另一个原因是人们对电子设备的沉迷，这个现象越来越普遍。科技记者以及ABC新闻的供稿人的丹西伯格在其几年前的著作《数字饮食》中指出，人们似乎无法离开电邮、掌上电脑、脸书、推特、领英、苹果、黑莓等等电子产品。他写这本书的初衷是发现电子产品似乎占据了他生活的每一个方面。他强调说“我的妻子戏称我为’发光虫儿’，仅仅是因为当我在床上盯着屏幕时，我的脸在屏幕的灯光中熠熠发亮。”

　　The implication for relationships of this phenomenon is pretty obvious. It's not too sexy or conducive to any sort of intimate personal communication with whoever shares your bed.

　　这种现象所暗示的点十分明确，那就是这种做法对于和你同床共枕的人来说并不性感。

　　But perhaps the most deleterious effect of pillow technology on the bedtime entrepreneur is its simple physical implications. It's damn uncomfortable and leads to all sorts of aches and pains. Ergonomics experts particularly warn about the lumbar implications of multitasking for long periods of time in bed.

　　在床上用电子产品工作这种做法有毒，最明显的体现就是身体上的损害。这尼玛，既不舒服又会招来病痛。人体工学专家特别警告称长时间的床上办公会导致腰椎劳损。

　　Finally, technology enabled bedtime work encourages insomnia. Sue Shellenberger cites Russell Rosenberg of the National Sleep Foundation who says light from our screens suppresses the sleep hormone melatonin.

　　最后要说的是，这种做法还会导致失眠。苏·谢林博格引用全国睡眠基金会的鲁塞尔·罗森博格的话说就是：屏幕光源会导致睡眠褪黑素的减少，从而导致睡眠质量不佳。

　　My advice? Work where you work and sleep where you sleep and n'er let the twain interface. For, as William Shakespeare puts it in Macbeth:

　　我的建议？该在哪儿工作在哪儿工作，该在哪儿睡觉在哪儿睡觉，万不能让两者有所牵涉。这里，引用莎士比亚在《麦克白》中所写到的：

　　"Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care,

　　The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,

　　Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,

　　Chief nourisher in life's feast."

　　“无辜的睡眠连起了关怀的衣袖，每天的死亡，遍体鳞伤的苦工沐浴，还有给那些伤残的脑袋涂的膏。大自然的主菜就是生命中提供营养的主食。”