Technology is Eroding the Work/Life Balance [Study]
Up to 45 percent of employees feel obligated to check-in after business hours, and another 26 percent feel guilty for using their vacation time.
A new employee engagement study by Ranstad looked at work/life balance perceptions among U.S. workers and found that technology is blurring the lines.
About 120 million U.S. workers are now classified as mobile workers (those who work from their mobile devices). And according to the longitudinal study of 2,257 adult employees, Gen Y lives in “default mode.”
American workers are beginning to resent the encroachment of technology into their personal lives; employees fear retribution for being unavailable or failing to check-in on a constant basis when off the clock.
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