Who is the woman who appeared in the last five seconds of Apple conferences?

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Early this morning, Apple's annual "Technology Spring Festival Gala" was held as scheduled. In addition to the stunning "smart island" and new hardware products, this conference also appeared a real egg.

After finishing the words at Tim Cook, the camera moved to the sky, and after the picture became the LOGO of the press conference, a scene suddenly appeared: a lady stood at the door of the subway with a shoulder bag. At this time, music has also changed from exciting conference to weird piano notes.

After the screen is switched to the Lord logo, the picture suddenly becomes a "flashing" woman 丨 Apple/YouTube

This woman did not appear at the end of the press conference. In the demonstration part of the AirPods Pro, when the staff came to the subway to reflect the "noise reduction" function of the new headset, the backpack lady stood on the subway platform and then entered the subway.

"Backpack Lady" who passed by the staff of Huang Yi 丨 Apple/YouTube

The lady's blue brand card revealed her identity -she was helly R from Lumon in the TV series "Severant".

LUMON's helly r (middle) 丨 "Life Cutting"

Lumon: The perfect balance of work and life?

In 2021, Apple's streaming media platform, Apple TV+, launched the workplace thriller "Life Cut", which is the company in this drama. Lumon will carry out a chip implant surgery for employees who voluntarily enter the "separation layer", and after surgery, the memory is separated from the memory of work and life.

Helly is implanted in the "separation" chip 丨 "Life Cutting"

Employees after implanting the chip will automatically switch to the "work personality" when they reach the separation layer through the elevator -forget who they are and forget their lives. When I returned to the ground through the elevator, the brain switched to "life personality" again: the memory of the last second still entered this elevator.

From the perspective of memory, this means that work and life are completely separated, and you don't remember the content and troubles of work at all. But one of the reasons why this drama is called workplace thriller is "you will always work at work."

The description of "Hell" in the play 丨 "Life Cutting"

In the play, people have created two words of Outie and Innie to refer to themselves and their own work. The working layer was arranged to seem "completely meaningless", day after day. If you want to leave, you need to agree at the same time.

But when Innie's resignation, Outie always brings himself back to the company again. After all, there is nothing bad in life. Helly has tried to leave the company in various ways, and even plans to use self -harm to videos to tell the outside world to tell the outside world that he wants to leave. But what she finally got was a video given by herself in life: I am a person, you are not; it is me, not you.

Helly in life rejects the resignation application of Heelly

There are many other science fiction elements in this drama, and there are divergent understanding and guessing of the current plot. In addition, this drama will discuss the balance of work and life, presented to everyone in an extreme pull: we want to escape from work every day, but we bring ourselves back to the company every day.

Lumon's welcome dinner. When she passed by the welcome banner, she blocked the letters Y, and helly became Hello (hell) 丨 "Life Cutting"

How difficult is life and work?

The concept of work and life equilibrium (Work Life Balance) was proposed as early as 1986, and in the 1990s, the book "Excessive and Tired Americans" published by economist Juliet Schor " Frequent. To this day, this topic is still the focus of attention of employers and employees.

Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of Queensland collected 245 papers related to the balanced work and life in various journals from 1987 to 2006, and sorted out and review the research methods. It was found that although people have been discussing this topic, it is still difficult to analyze this issue.

In 1996, Richard G. Netemeyer proposed a set of simplified self -assessment tables to evaluate the conflict of work and life. He divided the conflict into two aspects, and raised questions from the work conflict between the family and the family's conflict between the family and the family's conflict (Family-Work Conflict).

Work-family conflict meter table

1. Work needs interfere with my family and family life.

2. My work occupies a lot of time, making it difficult for me to fulfill my family responsibilities.

3. Due to the work requirements, I cannot complete what I want to do at home.

4. The pressure of work makes it difficult for me to fulfill family responsibilities.

5. Due to the relevant duties of work, I have to change the family activity plan.

Family-work conflict table 1. The requirements of family or spouse/partner interfere with my work-related activities.

2. Because of the time requirements at home, I have to postpone the work.

3. Due to the requirements of family or spouse/partner, what I want to do at work cannot be completed.

4. Family life interferes with my work duties, such as working on time, completing daily tasks and overtime.

5. The pressure related to the family disturb the ability to fulfill my responsibilities.

However, the balance of work and life is not only reflected in family life, but more and more research has detailed different judgment dimensions. No matter how detailed the meter table is, we can't solve the ultimate problem: When the work integrates the time of life, how should we "separate"?

More and more people pay attention to work and life balance 丨 Picture source

Elasticity, small tools for use, turn off work reminders after work, and develop our own hobbies ... A series of techniques allows us to optimize the contradiction between work and life, but perhaps the most important thing is to make everyone realize: Employees need to live.

Some ironic is that Apple has repeatedly repeatedly caused employee dissatisfaction due to the cancellation of home office. On the issue of balanced work and life, Apple itself may also face dilemma.

Some people say that Helly appears in the picture of AirPods Pro, which may be to imply that the noise reduction function of the new headset can make you live in a "separation" world. But who knows, is Helly rushing to Apple to check in by the subway?

references

[1]Netemeyer, Richard G., James S. Boles, and Robert McMurrian. "Development and validation of work–family conflict and family–work conflict scales."Journal of applied psychology81.4 (1996): 400.

[2] Submitter, G. A. T. R., Zainab Bello, and Garba Ibrahim Tanko. "Review of work-life balance theories."Journals and Bello, Zainab and Tanko, Garba Ibrahim, Review of Work-Life Balance Theories (December 31, 2020). Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Bello, Z (2020): 217-227.

[3] Chang, Artemis, Paula McDonald, and Pauline Burton. "Methodological choices in work-life balance research 1987 to 2006: A critical review."The International Journal of Human Resource Management21.13 (2010): 2381-2413.

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