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People from all walks of life love their cell phones. My 60-year-old dad stays playing Temple Run during commercial breaks for The Nightly News with Lester Holt. Yeah, it’s an old game but the very fact that he’s playing it is impressive on its own. We’re all dependent on our phones. And yeah, it’s sad that a phone can now make or break a fun night out on the town but I think the overwhelming majority of Americans would agree that owning a smart phone is a necessary evil.
Unfortunately, the over-usage of this technology has now spread so much that it’s affecting the work of those you’d least expect it to.
A report by the Dallas Fed was released this morning, showing a significant decline in factory activity during the month of May. With this decline came serious concerns about an increase in labor costs coupled with a lack of productivity from workers.
I’m not saying that the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas or the companies who are issuing complaints towards new hires are not warranted. There’s a time and a place for everything, and that includes checking up on your timelines and snap stories. But what the Department of Labor fails to give us is some information on the number of people over thirty and forty years old who are doing the same thing as the 23-year-old entry level employee.
The Department of Labor must realize that if we are supposed to pay them overtime for work they should do during normal work this will make us have to focus on micromanaging employees and reducing compensation to reflect actual productivity of a mandated 40-hour or less workweek.”
Look, if someone has an employee that is shirking work so hard that they aren’t meeting quotas or deadlines, by all means, reprimand them. But to act like someone holding an iPhone isn’t going to check social media or text messages periodically throughout the day is bananas. America is moving towards the four-day workweek as it is. And working straight through the day isn’t healthy. For every hour at work, a person needs to take 15 minutes to get up and do something. If that something is looking at memes on Twitter, who the hell cares?
There’s a growing concern among working Americans that the Department of Labor’s recent overtime increase is spiking business costs. This means that employers are being forced to pay employees more money for work that should be done during the mandated 40-hour work week. Are we forgetting about the age old adage “You have to spend money to make money?” If overtime pay is what it’s going to take to get work done, then so be it.
Complaints can only go on for so long until action is taken to increase productivity. A wake-up call may be in order for the 20 and 30-somethings.
A little dramatic, no? It’s not like corporations are about to start firing their largest source of eligible employees. You want to know what happens when you start instituting a no-cell-phone policy in the workplace? Your company goes under because none of the top talent graduating college wants to work for a bunch of uptight stiffs.
I’m confident in the next twenty years, the five-day, 40-hour work week is going to seem barbaric to younger generations. Let the kids have their phones. Checking social media is the only thing keeping them sane as they sit in a windowless cube crunching numbers all day for crotchety executives..
[via Red Alert Politics]
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But what about everyone that now have “no excuse to not see their work emails at home because they’re right on their phones? And no excuse to not reply ASAP?” Double standard?
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I’m curious to see how much this report alters during March Madness with so many companies blocking ESPN.
Thanks Captain Obvious (written from my phone at my desk)
Guys, I know I’m basically Confusious reincarnated but the word “Productivity” is a man made construct used to describe the exploitation of the majority labor force by the upper echelon profit earners. That’s why they guilt trip you everytime productivity goes down rather than be open minded that people are gaining consciousness of this fact. I know some of you want to dispute this but most of us are 1 paycheck away from being homeless. It’s time we all sit on our phones and Google how to be successful in a world that has no moral center yet expects you to wake up everyday and be Mr. Positive about everything.
Wholeheartedly agree. Corporations want you to sell them your soul in exchange for subsistence level wages, bullshit HR polices, the ability to fire you at-will for no reason, etc.
Fuck that.
My goal is to be able to live off income from self-employment by the time I’m 30 (in 5 years).
Playing the corporate game is a losing proposition from the start. The only way to win is not to play.
I don’t believe that any employee can be 100% on, 100% of the time. I mean, unless you’re directly in charge of someone’s safety (but even ATCs get breaks every hour), you need little diversions here and there to keep you going mentally. Older folks make that the coffee break or chatting by the water cooler, us young guns choose instead to check Twitter for a minute or two every half hour. No difference in productivity, but there’s a huge difference in perception.
We had someone get fired last week for having his phone on his desk.
Jesus what Gulag do you work in?
Nice little place, just west of Siberia. We get a slice of bread on Fridays, pretty excited today.
My dad spends more time on his phone than I do on mine.
Unless you’re working somewhere without any kind of technology, you should be more than capable of making up for phone time with your efficiency (due to the aforementioned constant technology use)
Throwing an entire generation under the bus because your dying industry can’t compete internationally when you have to pay fair domestic wages, PGPM
I started a new job in April and I didn’t realize it before I started, but there is no signal. In the entire building. None. My phone either says 1x or no signal. It has been the most painful 7 weeks, and I don’t know how long I’m going to last. I can’t get texts, I can’t make calls. Honestly, if I had looked at my phone during the interview and realized this, I probably wouldn’t have taken the job. I go outside everyday rain or shine at lunch just so I can get some phone time. The worst part is that it doesn’t seem to bother anyone but me, they all just shrug and accept it!