With the advent of the blackberry, many friends have started complaining that wherever they go their work follows them. This was illustrated last summer when we were at the beach and one of our friends was busy plugging away at her blackberry because a client sent an urgent e-mail that have to be responded to immediately.
In today's inquirer, there was an article that would insure that more work would be able to follow us around wherever we go. Microsoft Office would now apparently be bundled into the latest generation phones of Nokia. They would be running on the Symbian OS and would allow the handling of documents and spreadsheets and worse yet databases from anywhere!!!
Now, the excuse that I am out of the office would practically be nil and that bosses would be able to reach us wherever we may go. A friend once commented that she would refuse such a phone even if it was office issued but if it was made mandatory...what can one do?
Ostensibly, this is towards a goal of increased efficiency but there's been increasing evidence that one must take time out from work and study so that one may be able to view the work from a different perspective. This has been corroborated but a great number of studies some of which was published by such institutions as the Harvard School of Medicine.
I fear that increasing use of such technology would be a crimp in a professional's ability to be creative and that rote solutions would be utilised because the person would be exhausted.
Hopefully, this new development of technology would not be used in such manner by companies but if such are used, there should be safeguards so that burnout of their employees may be avoided.
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