The Register reports a T-mobile survey that "proves" what we've known for a while: mobile phone etiquette has yet to catch up with the technology, and there is a gap between what we say we should do, and what we do.
The figures are interesting - the survey had a sample size of just over 5,000, and found that
62 per cent of Brit workers endure bad "mobile habits" in the workplace, eg: colleagues answering calls or reading texts in meetings. Sixty-one per cent of respondents admitted to this particular outrage, oblivious to the 87 per cent who said taking a call in a meeting was poor form, and the 80 per cent who reckon reading or answering a text in the same context is just not on
Also
Seventy-three per cent of (media industry) respondents said their employer "does not offer guidelines on the use of mobile phones at work". It's scarcely better in the IT industry, where 65 per cent recorded a similar lack of advice. Forty-one per cent, meanwhile, voted in favour of such guidelines "hoping to raise the standards of mobile manners".
It's a major theme of mine: we need to develop accepted rules of self regulation around technology usage....
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