We spend more waking hours on the job than doing anything else. We are taught from a young age to value hard work and that it will be rewarded. We hear far less about the efforts required in our relationships When the workday is over, the work must recede out of your thoughts and time.  

James Keller designs home offices–spaces in existing rooms or entire rooms dedicated to working from home. He thinks the home office concept is a metaphor for the home office worker.

“The space I design has to serve two functions. It has to be a home part of the day and an office part of the day. When you think about it, that’s just what the person is, too–a family member part of the day and a worker part of the day.”

Keller’s concept of a home office is not a space that beckons you to the office at all hours of the day. “You have to turn off the office lights and shut the door and then see your house as a home come five o’clock. You might say, ‘I work in that room from nine to five. Come five o’clock, I’ll clean up, and it becomes a family room again.’”

Workaholics, people who never seem to stop working or thinking about work, are three times more likely to say that their personal life is unsatisfying.

    除了睡觉，我们花费时间最多的事情就是工作了。从小我们接受的教育就是努力工作就会有回报。可是很少有人告诉我们对婚姻也必须付出相当多的努力。在下班之后，一定不能再让工作占据我们的时间和精力。
    凯勒的工作是设计家庭办公室—在家中单辟出一定空间或是干脆将家变成办公室。他认为家庭办公室这一概念同时也把那些回家还工作的人形容出来了。
    “我设计的作品同时拥有两种功能。一天之内它要时而是个家，时而又是办公室。想想看，这不正是某些人的样子吗—一一会儿是家庭中的一分子，一会儿又成了公司的一名职员。”
    凯勒对家庭办公室的要求就是不能一天24小时让人总觉得像是在办公室里。“下班时你关好灯，锁好门，这时已经下午5点了，你的房子应该看上去像个真正的家。我的设计能使人有这种感觉：‘我在这里工作了一整天了，现在5点了，我该下班了，让我的家出现吧！’”
    工作狂—就是那种一心全是工作，总在不停地工作的人——对自己的私生活的满意度比普通人低3倍。