Two U.S. surveys demonstrate how leisure and work are getting increasingly connected.

A report by Avaya shows that during time off (be it nights, weekends or vacations), 85 % of workers pack their laptops, PDAs, mobile phones and other tech gadgets and 76 % regularly retrieve messages.

Unsurprisingly, 54 % sometimes feel “overwhelmed by pervasive communications,” 93 % of these people reported a “negative effect on quality of life” and some 61 % said that because of the new communications technologies, they work more hours, mostly because they do it on their own time. However, an Ipsos-Insight study shows that 72 % of U.S. consumers would welcome the “digital den” products (such as Ethernet media players, wireless digital media players, etc.), that would connect their home entertainment systems to the Internet.

From Globe and Mail.
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