Smartphones are making us tired, weak work slaves

http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/225309/smartphones-are-making-us-tired-work-slaves

by junioreven • 15 years ago

22 6 15 years ago

bitops• 15 years ago

I believe this - walking around San Francisco in the morning, I'm struck by how many people are just STARING into their smartphone. (Sometimes I'm one of those people).

But it is odd how reflexive it seems to have become that when people feel like they might have even 30 seconds of downtime, they immediately reach for the smartphone.

Then there are the health concerns around everyone taking their smartphone to the bathroom. Yes, people definitely do it. You hear that giggling a few stalls over and you know that's someone reading something funny.

ww520• 15 years ago

> But it is odd how reflexive it seems to have become that when people feel like they might have even 30 seconds of downtime, they immediately reach for the smartphone.

Sounds like good conditioning.

mwidarto• 15 years ago

I was at a 6-7 years old soccer team party and 7 of the 11 dads (including me) were sitting looking at their phone for half of the time.

frio• 15 years ago

As an office drone/sysadmin, the most uplifting thing I've done for myself all year was take my work email configuration out of my phone. Nothing I do is urgent enough to require it (any service alerts page me over SMS), and work constantly encroaching on my spare time did nothing but exhaust me.

I'd suggest the same to anyone with a smartphone who doesn't need work email outside of work. That might be an increasingly small subset of employees these days, but it really does help you enjoy your spare time more.

jerf• 15 years ago

This entire source document appears to be a steaming pile of trash; everything is self-reported, no attempt to disentangle correlation from causation, etc. It's just a marketing puff piece.

sirwitti• 15 years ago

What exactly makes a mobile worker? Doesn't sound very scientific to me

Smartphones are making us tired, weak work slaves

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