Do you work too much since you are always connected?
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I ran across this
article stating how Microsoft
(UK) thinks it's employees may work too much since people are always connected
It has got to the stage where Microsoft has even issued
guidance to its UK employees on when they should disconnect from the Internet
at home or turn off their mobile phones.
"The provision of a smart phone in no way requires users to either
view or respond to business related emails or calls out of office hours,"
Steve Harvey, Director of People and Culture at Microsoft told CNN.
"Individuals are not skilled in setting the boundaries between work
and home (and) colleagues fail to respect other's rights to free time."
How many of you think you work too much away from the office due to pagers,
cell phones, Internet connectivity over wireless and even high speed
Speaking of
Researchers have set a data transmission record over
the Internet2's high-speed backbone.
The record, announced Tuesday at the Spring 2004 Internet2 member meeting
in Arlington, Va., was for transmitting data over nearly 11,000 kilometers
at an average speed of 6.25 gigabits per second. This is nearly 10,000
times faster than a typical home broadband connection. The network link
used to set the record reaches from Los Angeles to Geneva, Switzerland.
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On Tuesday, April 27th, 2004 by Chris Miller
