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43 plus E-Mail plus 58 plus SMS gleich Problem statt Lösung
(43 plus email plus 58 plus text message equals problem instead of solution)
Newspaper | Bilanz
Date | 27.1.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | brain, email, smartphone, technology-free, threat
Summary | Professionals nowadays frequently abstain from checking their emails. Automatic email notifications stating that the desired person is unavailable for a few weeks due to email abstinence have become more frequent. This is unsurprising because the interruptions caused by emails and other notifications take up a lot of our cognitive capacity so that we become less efficient in our work. We check our smartphones for new notifications 85 times a day on average.
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Comment j'ai survécu à...une semaine sans smartphone
(How I survived...a week without smartphone)
Newspaper | La Tribune de Genève
Date | 18.7.2015
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | addiction, email, smartphone, technology-free
Summary | A journalist tried to live 7 days without her smartphone and talks about her experience. She might be part of the 20% of the Swiss addicted to their smartphone. People are addicted when they spend more time online than with their friends and family. This is not her case. She also realizes that with a smartphone, there is almost no separation between private and professional life; she can read her emails anytime. Without her smartphone, the journalist finds it difficult to organize her day: who is going to pick up the kids? At what time?
Image Description | Blurred photograph of a woman holding a phone; the person is blurred but the phone is in sharp focus.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone
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