At a time when at least one-third of American households have dropped landlines altogether, old-school phones are still "very important" to Americans at work. That's according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center that explores attitudes toward technology in the workplace.
Pew found email far outweighed phone technology of any kind in importance, according to more than 1,000 American workers surveyed. Some 60% of people polled called email "very important" at work, compared with the 35% who described landlines as "very important," and 24% who said cell phones or smartphones were "very important." About 54% of those surveyed called the Internet "very important," while just 4% called social publishing sites like Facebook "very important" at work. Read more...
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