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Study Says Connectivity Keeps Us Working While on Vacation

Press release about the survey from Avaya Inc.:

  • “An increasing number of vacationing workers include laptop computers, cell phones and PDAs with their beach towels, sunscreen and paperbacks in order to stay in touch with office business…85 percent of respondents remain accessible to co-workers during nights, weekends and vacations; 76 percent regularly retrieve messages during time off; 54 percent said they sometimes feel “overwhelmed by pervasive communications,” and 93 percent of these people reported a “negative effect on quality of life.”
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