hey guys Serg here and today we're gonna be talking about phone checking while
you're at work
hey guys ECR G here and today we're going to be
talking about phone checking while you're at work should you do it should
you not do it she just leave your phone at home or in the car or what is the
kind of dedicate around phone checking while you're at work well times have
changed guys see back in the day I have co-workers who've been in the
industry a long time maybe like 50 60 70 not 70 but in the mid 50s to early 60s
probably and back in the day they didn't have cell phones or back or when cell
phones did come about you didn't really check them while you're at work or when
they had pagers or beepers or something you don't really check up they come from
the old school where you come in you punch in you're on the clock you don't
do nothing else you don't check no email you don't check nothing you're on the
clock you're only doing work from 9:00 to 5:00 or whatever your hours are for
those eight hours and times have changed Millennials are taking over
Millennials are in managerial positions are now rising up the executive ladder
so the culture has to change at the companies and more and more millenials
Millennials are going to be a major part of the workforce I think by 2020 the
workforces we made up of 40% Millennials something along those lines so I mean
every every year a new set of graduates come out that are Millennials so the
workforce is clearly changing and the culture around that workforce is clearly
changing so what is some of the etiquette that goes on when you talk
about phone checking while you're at work and it's gonna be different
industry to industry company to company of course but in clinical research I
found that it's typically a more laid-back culture it's it's not finance
or anything like that but as far as phone checking it's cool
pretty much you can do whatever you want as far as the phone now you want to make
sure that you aren't if you're connecting to the Wi-Fi you're not like
mistakingly looking at porn or like naked pictures or something like that
because IT will come get you but as far as like how it looks I mean
normal etiquette applies you know if you're in the meeting or something you
don't want to be pulling out your phone or you know you're having a direct
one-on-one conversation with somebody you don't want to be pulling out your
phone that's just that's just wrong and that's just kind of rude but if you're
now at your desk not doing anything by yourself then I don't see what's wrong
pull out your phone or checking your personal email or something like that
pretty much if you get your work done there's not gonna be any problems and
that's pretty much the culture I found in clinical research and I'm sure you
guys comment down below if you guys have found anything different in other fields
but you know I've come into some pretty interesting situations just by accident
and people haven't said anything and there's one situation in particular is
somebody who was very high up in the business unit she's one of the directors
so she was high up there one of the most high people in the business unit and she
was in town for some reason I guess she was just meeting some of the employees
on the floor so she walks up over to my desk I'm on the phone and I look up at
her I have no idea who she is because I've never met her before I've only seen
her face she looks vaguely familiar just from the emails that they send out
you know bi-weekly I know that she's probably someone important but I'm on my
phone so I look up at her and then she introduces herself I stand up and put my
phone down obviously cuz someone came over and you know we have a nice
conversation it didn't seem like she was put off by the fact that I was putting
on my phone which was great but you know that can happen people are obviously
gonna walk up on you and ask for stuff but the culture at the office is what
you really got a factor in are other people on their phone are other people
surfing the internet doing different things that aren't work
while they're at work and if that's the case then you shouldn't have anything to
worry about because no reason why they should be picking on you unless you
aren't getting your work done versus somebody else so you just got to kind of
look at the culture if nobody else is on their phone then you better not be on
your phone that much or you better do it discreetly outside or something also you
don't want to like take loud personal calls while you're on the floor at work
either and if other people can hear you if you're not in office or something
like that so just kind of like see what the cultures like see how other people
are doing it I know at the office in my office that I know people surf Facebook
or you know surf the internet or do whatever while they're at office but
they're getting their work done so you want to make sure of that
and you know they're checking their phone I know I use my phone for music
because I got the spotify premium so I use my phone for music predominantly
that's what I'm doing on a predominantly and you know occasionally I'll check
Instagram or email or something like that but predominantly it's it's nothing
too distracting or nothing too out of the ordinary and nobody has said
anything to me while I was you know doing it and it didn't seem like an
issue because I know other people probably do it too I think we're in the
era where you know people always make fun of Millennials because they're glued
to their phones and they're stuck to their phones but I think that's what
it's gonna be like from here on out because I'm sure the next generation is
gonna be even more connected to technology than we were the generation
before us I don't know that they're good gen gen x or Gen Y or something I don't
know what they are but you know they started getting technology but they're
not as connected to it as we are you know they had beepers and stuff like
that where we came up in the cellphone era in the texting era so we're used to
having phones on us at all time having them glued to our hips I'm sure the kids
now are practically born with phones so you know that's just what it is we're
going to get used to the phone checking while we're at work
and we're at scam to get used to multitasking I know for me it's it's
hard for me to do one thing at one time I've always got to be multitasking you
know sometimes if I really need to focus then I can you know shut everything out
and focus but most the time while I'm at work I'm listening to music in that work
or I'm watching a YouTube video and I work in doing my thing
so it just depends guys so you really want to look at your culture and you
want to earn on the side of not checking your phone until you've analyzed the
culture and seeing what other people are doing when it comes to should you check
your phone while you're at work all right guys that's it I have for today
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