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UK – Worried over layoffs, 51% check work emails during holidays

About 51 per cent of people in Britain check work emails every day while on holiday and as many as 38 per cent call the office because of fear of losing job in the recession, a new study has revealed.

According to the study, a third surveyed said that working on holiday had made the break less enjoyable, while 15 per cent said it had caused an argument with their partner, the Daily Mail reported.

Work addiction, or the inability to switch off and leave work at the office when they hit the beach, is caused by increased job insecurity, and enabled by technologies such as mobile internet access on phones and laptops abroad, it said…

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/personal-tech/computing/Worried-over-layoffs-51-Britons-check-work-emails-during-holidays/articleshow/16794957.cms

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