The Dark Side of Mobility

By Dan Blacharski

Before cell phones, BlackBerries and laptops, taking a day off meant taking a day off. You couldn't be reached. If you really had to make contact, you had to find a pay phone and call the office, but they couldn't call you.

The work world is a little different today. According to a survey conducted by Info-Tech Research Group, 81 percent of employees feel obligated to one degree or another to be available to the office 24 hours a day. Only 19 percent of the people surveyed felt no obligation at all to stay connected around the clock. This is of course, the dark side to all the spiffy connectivity technology that's come out lately.

So what are employers doing about it? Not much, in terms of discouraging the practice.

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