How the Smartphone Killed the Three-Day Weekend
Published: Friday, 24 May 2013 | 4:40 PM ET
By: Bob Sullivan
Memorial Day weekend marks the beginning of summer and all it evokes: vacations, slower workweeks, casual dress codes, getting the pool ready and pulling out the outdoor furniture.
It would seem an ideal time to take a break, but our ability to unplug and relax is under assault. A three-day weekend? We can barely get through three waking hours without working, new research shows. The average smartphone user checks his or her device 150 times per day, or about once every six minutes. Meanwhile, government data from 2011 says 35 percent of us work on weekends, and those who do average five hours of labor, often without compensation—or even a thank you. The other 65 percent were probably too busy to answer surveyors’ questions.
There’s plenty of debate among economists and psychologists whether the economy is to blame, or we do this to ourselves. There’s little arguing that the concept of a Sabbath is in serious danger.
https://www.cnbc.com/id/100765600
yes this is a problem, because your boss thinks that he or she can e- mail you at any time. and if they don’t stop or do it very late or to am’ish you know. it’s a pain in the ass. people do have a life.