weisure

weisure
n.
Free time spent doing work or work-related tasks. [Blend of work and leisure.]
Example Citations:
Weisure has been fueled by social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, where "friends" may actually be business partners or work colleagues.
"Social networking as an activity is one of those ambiguous activities," Conley said. "It's part fun and part instrumental in our knowledge economy."
These networking sites offer participants in the weisure life lots of ways to do business — and to have fun.
—Thom Patterson, " Welcome to the 'weisure' lifestyle: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/worklife/05/11/weisure/," CNN.com, May 11, 2009
Weisure time is fitting fun around work, rather than fitting work around fun. It's kind of like eating lunch at your desk. We used to call people who embraced this sort of behavior workaholics. Now we call them crackberries. ...
Baby boomers need to come to grips with the concept of weisure time if they plan to work beyond retirement.
—Jim Shea, "More Work, Less Fun Ahead for Boomers," Valley News, May 30, 2009
Earliest Citation:
I call how we spend our time (I would say "free" time, but that would obscure the point that this once hallowed boundary [between work and leisure] has broken down) instrumental leisure or weisure (i.e., work and leisure combined). ...
And what we are doing during our weisure time is accumulating social capital and developing our networks.
—Dalton Conley, Elsewhere, U.S.A.: http://www.amazon.com/Elsewhere-U-S-Affluent-BlackBerry-Economic/dp/0375422900/," Pantheon, January 13, 2009
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