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Mobile Workers Toil 30 More Days a Year

Are tablet PCs to blame?

By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff

Posted May 24, 2011 4:33 PM CDT

(Newser) – If you work on the go, you’re doing an extra 30 days’ work a year, a study finds. That may be thanks to tablet computers: Some 41% of mobile workers own a tablet PC, and another 34% have plans to get one within 6 months, finds another study. That’s 75% who will soon have one, Fast Company notes. And these things aren’t just toys: Some 87% of those who’ve already got one use it for at least “some” work.

Meanwhile, about 68% of mobile workers are such Internet addicts that they’ll pay for a faster connection rather than use a free slower one. For many of them, the office is always close by: 43% keep their phones handy while sleeping, 8% wake nightly to check phones, and 44% are fretting about work when not working. “Basically it's all thanks to the tablet revolution, and this is all thanks to, really, the iPad, the iPhone and the Android Army,” writes Kit Eaton. So “we can basically blame Steve Jobs for it all.”

Blame these things for how much you work. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

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DanielGM

May 25, 2011 1:55 PM CDT

Waaaaaaah efficiency

bewilderbeast

May 25, 2011 7:42 AM CDT

It's a well-known fact that before Steve Jobs magically invented the iPad there were no laptops, and hardly any work got done that wasn't linked directly to Bill Gates from your nailed-down desktop. I think I'll post Steve a check . . .

Bundy714

May 24, 2011 8:05 PM CDT

This is a stupid misleading story. This story has been around since the dawn of email. Now it has been laid at the Apple/Steve Jobs altar as if it's an Ipad thing. How many hooked on Blackberry stories do you remember just like this? Steve Jobs did not invent mobile computing and being in touch 24/7 in the least bit. Someone just thought it would make a catchy story.

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