Too Busy On Their Mobile Phones To Work

Not my phone. I can go months and not use it. In fact it spends more time on my bedside table than in my pocket. But I do wonder just who all these people are calling - especially those that are still at primary school!

before it was the e-mail, now it's the cellphone. Problem is that people do expect you Always to answer your Phone since there is a cellphone/you have a cellphone. So it takes "courage" not to answer it and just see it as a great invention to call from somewhere else as just your home. Personally I don't feel the need to answer my Phone if I am busy or in the shop for example. To my opionion it's also rude to answer your Phone in presence of other people or if you do not have the time to talk to someone with full attention. It's already proved years ago that many people do feel stress also because of the never ending ringing of the cellphone (to be forced Always to answer it). Read lately the growning/selling of the cellphone is still going on in Asia (not in other countries).

Really? And there's me thinking that people are spending all their time on Facebook, or possibly using their mobile phones to post on Facebook? You know me modern technology is not my bag, my friend used to be always on her blackberry and posting continually on Facebook, I often wondered if she did this at work too. I don't like mobile phones and I find them too intrusive and can't understand why some people seem to have them permanently attached to their ear, can't be healthy surely? I would love to be in work right now my friend.

Thanks for this discussion, the cell phone is creating lot of problems here, each person has one may be the cheapest Chinese variety, one can see guys and girls talking using mobile in streets, many hear music using ear phones while driving, this causes road accidents too, in office the staff play video games.

That might be part of the reason. But I think it also has to do with lack of respect and loyalty. Look, years ago there was a mutual respect between employer and employee. Thats gone now. Employers do not want to pay good money for good workers, so they pay lousy wages and in return get lousy service. Thats seems to be the trend. Why would anyone put in 100% if they are not getting nothing out of it.

Your claim hold some true inside it. Yes, I do notice that people uses the cell phones even when they are in the workplace for use not related to work. The time they spend on cell phones can be as long as a few hours in the workplace. So basically employee are paying according to the hourly salary yet the worker did not actually works for that number of hours. This phenomenon is everywhere. Some organization by the way, do restrict their employee in cell phone use, such as storing their cell phone temporarily during work time. This can reduce the wasted productivity. Yet if matter of emergency occurred, people may fail to contact them. So having able to refrain oneself from using cell phones in the workplace is needed. Only use it when there is a need to.

I totally agree. I know that when I was working with those young people they were hard pressed to stay off the phone on their breaks. They didn't have cells back then, but I had to get one because I needed to be reached if my Mom needed to reach me.

You could be on to something.

I agree about the cell phone thing. I never use mine at work unless i'm on my 15min break or my lunch break. But I see people using it constantly with texting when their supposed to be working doing their job. I just worked today and the girl I worked with every time I went over to her desk she was on her phone texting. It does annoy me because you do more of your work because your focused and then they slack because their too busy on their phone. There's nobody there on weekends to say anything to about it. But life goes on, they'll just be the ones to look bad when they see their quality of work for the month.

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It definitely is a contributing factor for the decrease in productivity. I think another factor is too much internet usage. Both means of communications, if used for personal reasons, can really eat up on one's productivity. And I agree that this is definitely a global thing. Even in my country, texting or accessing social network sites are done during office hours and mostly people aren't doing it as part of their work.

A woman after my own heart! My SIL is always on the phone to my daughter when he is at work. He is gone 14 hours a day and I dare say they stay on the phone for 6 hours. He has 2 Bluetooth thingies he plugs in each night. He could probably get done faster if he wasn't on the phone do much. Even though he isn't holding the phone it still has to take some of his concentration away. He is a truck driver. He gets paid commission on sales of a premium brand of ice cream. I think he could get home quicker if he wasn't on the phone so much.

I don't think phone usage is responsible for it all. I see lots of governments making companies hire people or make gov. jobs for people just to have better figures, when it does nothing for the real economy. But it's worrying and true that people are talking too much on the phone in their work time. I've seen this especially with sales assistants, bank tellers and clerks.

You are right about this, some people can't drive their car, for being on a cell phone, so I know what it would be like, on a job,with a cell phone, no work would be getting done at all, everybody would be on the cell phone,talking about other things, I am glad I work online, and I have online work schedule, and the only time you can talk to me, on my phone is at 12:00-1:00 when I take my lunch, after that you can't reach me because I turn my ringer off, because I have lot of work to do here online, and talking on the cell phone, take away from that for me.

We used a builder who was an absolute waste of space. Mobile signal is pretty poor near the house, so every time his phone beeped (about ever 3 seconds I reckon), he had to walk up the drive to conduct his pointless conversation about nothing. Needless to say, he's not working for me any more!

When I was at my last employment (group home caring for developmentally dependent persons), I worked with kids that were just out of high school or college. They would be on their phones all of the time. We had a big 15-passenger van that we used for transport and one of the 'kids' would even be texting while driving clients to and from work and other events!!! I reported it but she didn't stop. I just can't understand these people that are joined to the hip with their mobiles. I agree with you 100%.

I think it's the constant need of everybody to be plugged in. And the need to be aware of what's happening to the million friends that we have. Yes, it does improve our communication (although, not the speaking part), but all this communicatin' take time out of our being productive. Of course not everybody is like that. Me, just a little bit!

I guess the young people are prone to do that.Many of them are bitten with playing video game.

we should be responsible when we are at work.. it is fine to check our phone once in a while at worked but it is not appropriate if every minute all we want to do is to grab our phone and make our self busy with it and set aside work..

The problem with some company is that their policy is not that strict when it comes to mobile phone usage. As much as possible, limit the use of mobiles for those who are only responsible for the communication line with regarding to the business or work. Other than that, strict the usage of mobile phones and even internet.