Slaves to our Smartphones

Smartphones are taking over our lives. It’s hard to separated working life from our own private lives now. For example bosses can easily make last minute changes over text or email you on your smartphone to let you know. It’s hard to plan for the future because smartphones are causing last minute changes. Some studies showed that smartphones are a distraction to what is needed to get done. Individuals rather check their e-mails or other social media network than complete what needs to get done. If smartphones weren’t constantly a distraction individuals would go deeper into their work and perform better. It’s hard to take a break from your smartphone in this day’s age unless you live in away from civilization.A hard working organization proved that we can break of being slaves to our smartphones  because they had a certain time they had to be offline. At the beginning workers were annoyed of the rules but in the end it forced workers to work and produce more productivity and it reduced burnouts. Just imagine if we all took a break from our smartphone for a while how much more work we would get done without the distractions? 

Schumpeter. (2012, March 10). Slaves to the smartphone; Schumpeter. http://search.proquest.com/docview/927580576(The Economist Intelligence Unit) Retrieved from ProQuest.

(this is slightly posting on an addictive side. but it is a distraction that can lead to procrastination)