Too Busy to Learn?

I’ve increasingly seen reports about how everyone is ‘too busy’ now. With emails, meetings and the endless ping of notifications at our fingertips, our attention spans have been decimated and our working hours blurred over the last 10 years. It’s hard for us to stop working, even France has had to introduce laws to protect workers from this constant connection to work. This trend can be seen rolling into the L&D world, reflected in us being ‘too busy’ to learn. But this makes no sense to me. We’re learning all the time. Learning isn’t something that is done separately, completed over there in the LMS, after the work day has ended or, before the work day has started for that matter. When we’re in work, learning is happening all the time; developing projects, participating in meetings, responding to people, making decisions.