November 25, 2006
Hating or loving your cell phone depends on the job you do
A new study entitled Ring Ring … Why Don't you Leave me Alone? by the National Institute of Labour Studies at South Australia's Flinders University, has found that whether you love or hate your mobile phone very much depends on the job you do and the demand for you to do it. The Age reports.
"he unhappiest mobile-phone users were those on-call or paid commissions, such as real-estate or IT workers. For them, mobile calls encroached into all areas, including the bedroom."
"For most people it is very much seen as a double-edged sword — a wonderful tool, but, also, that it makes people available all the time," Diannah Lowry said, co author of the study.
... Dr Lowry said mobile phones were invading the private space of even quite lowly paid workers, such as those in hospitality. She said the mobile phone had become a tool used by managers who had failed to accurately predict busy times and called workers on days off to cover them."
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