"We have reached a point where working on weekends or after-hours – without pay – is increasingly becoming a norm," the report said.
The thought that the resources we husband are not ours, but exist for a diverse community of users and must be accessible to as many as possible, is increasingly an accepted norm rather than a bold outlier.
Kate Burls, education team coordinator at Ceop, a command of the National Crime Agency, said: "Working with young people, we are finding that sexting increasingly feels like a norm in terms of behaviour in their peer group".
From a freakish storm in the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee that killed two people this month to an avalanche here on McKinley in June that killed four climbers in a place where avalanches are historically less of a worry, the new norm is increasingly the lack of a norm.
Measurement of marketing effectiveness and return on investment will become increasingly the norm A recent benchmarking study we did among universities indicated a somewhat sporadic approach to evaluation of marketing and communications spend, with general measurements such as "value for money" and "effectiveness of individual activities" being typically mentioned.
In an age where online communication is increasingly the norm, an age in which face-to-face contact is seen as inefficient or "uncomfortable," why should families make the great investment of spending four years in an artificially controlled community aimed at regular, intense personal interaction?
Today, those of us with a twang or jarring inflection are increasingly the norm, and no longer a novelty.
It stemmed, rather, from a marketplace structured around an increasingly outdated masculine norm: the "ideal worker" who can work full time for an entire career while enjoying "immunity from family work".
But remember that everything Steve Jobs touched was a masterpiece of engineering in a world where "just OK" is increasingly the norm.
Whether you work in a newspaper office guarded by a minimum wage security guard or, as is increasingly the norm, in your own home, you are always one pull of a trigger away from death when you hit "send" to fire off your cartoon to your syndicate, blog or publication.
