USA TODAY: …The good news? You can do this work from afar. The bad news? You can do this work from afar…
The skyrocketing use of mobile devices is upending much of what we know and experience in our work lives. Just as the desktop computer made time sheets, purchase orders and other physical documents virtually obsolete, mobile-based programs and cloud computing will make working solely at one desktop computer seem as outdated as tapping away at a typewriter…
“There’s an arms-race component to this,” says Lee Rainie, who directs the Pew Research Center’s ongoing study of technology’s social impact. If someone is “sucking up to the boss at midnight, (others think) ‘I’ve got to make sure I say something, too.’ “… (more)
EDITOR: It depends on the boss. Sending out messages in the evening, early morning and on weekends is often simply for the sender’s convenience without expectation or even a desire for a response outside of business hours, usually a 45 to 50 hour work week for managers and executives.
Also, it is better to receive an e-mail message instead of a diruptive phone call to pass on the same information.
Of course it is good to check for messages a couple of times a day, because the subject line may say “Urgent.”
