Are You Checking Work Email in Bed? At the Dinner Table? On Vacation?

This boss forced his burned-out employees to stop checking email on vacation

“I had to impose it because the methlike addiction of connection is so strong.”

via Mother Jones: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/04/smartphone-addiction-research-work-email

Constant access may work out great for employers, since it continues to ratchet up the pressure for turning off-the-clock, away-from-the-desk hours into just another part of the workday. But any corresponding economic gains likely aren’t being passed on to workers: During the great internet-age boom in productivity, which is up 23 percent since 2000, the inflation-adjusted wages and benefits for college graduates climbed just 4 percent, according to the Economic Policy Institute.