According to a recent CareerBuilder survey, 88 percent of employees have smart phones, and 77 percent of them keep their phones within reach at work.
Do you have a smartphone, and do you keep it within reach while at work?
If you answered ‘yes’ to these two questions, you’re part of the majority of U.S. workers. According to a recent CareerBuilder survey, 88 percent of employees have smart phones, and 77 percent of them keep their phones within reach at work. Workers admit to using them throughout the day – 39 percent check their phone several times a day.
Employers are worried about the effect smartphones and other productivity killers have on the workplace. Over half of employers (53 percent) think their company loses between one and two hours of productivity a day because employees are distracted. According to employers, the biggest productivity killers are:
- Cell phone/texting: 49 percent
- The Internet: 38 percent
- Social media: 37 percent
- Gossip: 35 percent
- Email: 29 percent
- Co-workers dropping by: 24 percent
- Smoke breaks or snack breaks: 25 percent