Joe Soto, general manager of an advertising firm in Philadelphia, has a complicated relationship with his BlackBerry e-mail phone.
He felt "awful" and out of touch when he was without a BlackBerry for two days because his unit fell overboard when he was sailing on the Chesapeake.
At the same time, if he could turn back the clock five years, to before the BlackBerry took over corporate America, he would do it "in a minute."
"If everybody also threw their BlackBerrys away, I would too," he said, chuckling. "The only problem is, in my industry, it makes me more competitive."
A study published Wednesday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows that workers in general have mixed feelings about the increased use of e-mail and the internet in the last few years.
Half of the respondents who were employed and had e-mail said they check their work e-mail on weekends, and a full 22 per cent said they checked office e-mail "often" on the weekends, up from 16 per cent who said the same thing in 2002.
But 46 per cent also said these BlackBerry devices increase the demands that they work more hours, and 49 per cent said that the technologies make it harder to disconnect from work when they should be off.
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He felt "awful" and out of touch when he was without a BlackBerry for two days because his unit fell overboard when he was sailing on the Chesapeake.
At the same time, if he could turn back the clock five years, to before the BlackBerry took over corporate America, he would do it "in a minute."
"If everybody also threw their BlackBerrys away, I would too," he said, chuckling. "The only problem is, in my industry, it makes me more competitive."
A study published Wednesday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows that workers in general have mixed feelings about the increased use of e-mail and the internet in the last few years.
Half of the respondents who were employed and had e-mail said they check their work e-mail on weekends, and a full 22 per cent said they checked office e-mail "often" on the weekends, up from 16 per cent who said the same thing in 2002.
But 46 per cent also said these BlackBerry devices increase the demands that they work more hours, and 49 per cent said that the technologies make it harder to disconnect from work when they should be off.
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Has has your BlackBerry extended your work hours?
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