iTWire - Bosses use technology to hound timid employees: survey

Bosses use technology to hound timid employees: survey

by Stan Beer
Sunday, 29 June 2008
Page 2 of 2 Over half of employees agree and blame technology for this increase in contact (56.5%) and the blurring of lines between work and play. Most popular skills tags .NET Active Directory C# Cisco Development HTML Infrastructure Management Network Oracle Project Management SAP SDLC SQL Server Support Sybase TCP/IP Unix VB.NET Web Services/SOAP XML Despite the fact that many employees object to this blurring, this heightened connectivity makes it hard for employees to know where to draw the line – 30% of employees consistently check emails outside of work hours and a worrying 23.2% check emails whilst on holiday. “Only 15.9% of respondents are able to make the statement ‘My time is my time, when I'm out of work no-one can reach me’, a definition that many employees would prefer to live by,” says Sallabank. Tags See All Tags Careers Employers Jobs Management People Staffing Stan Beer Get stories like this delivered daily - FREE - subscribe now << First page < 1 2 Next page > Last page - Post your comment >>