Owning a smartphone may not be as smart as you think.
使用智能手机也许并不像你想的那样明智。
They may let you surf the internet, listen to music and snap photos wherever you are...but they also turn you into a workaholic, it seems.
使用智能手机可以让你随时随地上网、听音乐、拍照片……但也可能让你变成工作狂。
A study suggests that, by giving you access to emails at all times, the all-singing, all-dancing mobile phone adds as much as two hours to your working day.
最新调查显示,智能手机能让你随时查收邮件,因此这种花哨的手机会让你每天的工作时间延长多达两个小时。
Researchers found that Britons work an additional 460 hours a year on average as they are able to respond to emails on their mobiles.
调查人员发现,由于可以随时用手机查收电邮,英国人每年的工作时间平均增加了460个小时。
The study by technology retailer Pixmania, reveals the average UK working day is between nine and 10 hours, but a further two hours is spent responding to or sending work emails, or making work calls.
科技产品零售商Pixmania开展的这项调查显示,英国人平均每天工作9到10小时,但额外加班的两个小时通常用来收发工作邮件或者打工作电话。
More than 90 percent of office workers have an email-enabled phone, with a third accessing them more than 20 times a day.
超过90%的职员有可以收发电邮的手机,其中1/3每天查看20次以上。
Almost one in ten admits spending up to three hours outside their normal working day checking work emails, and even those without a smartphone check emails on their home computer.
近1/10的职员承认每天日常工作时间外,还要花长达3个小时来查看工作电邮,没有智能手机的员工甚至要打开家中的电脑查看。
Some workers confess they are on call almost 24 hours a day, with nine out of ten saying they take work emails and calls outside their normal working hours.
有些员工表示,他们几乎全天24小时待命,其中9成受访者表示要在正常工作时间外收发电邮和接打工作电话。