Abstract
![CDATA[Just before many Australian professionals took their annual leave over the 2009-2010 summer season, a new report by a welfare agency received wide media coverage, advising workers to turn their mobile phones off during their holiday break. This paper questions the existence of this choice drawing on research undertaken on professionals‟ daily use of mobile information and communication technology (ICT) and suggests that, while this message is a worthy and important one – for individual workers‟ general health and wellbeing – it fails to take into account the altered expectations of work, the increasingly integrated work and non-work lives and social networks of many workers and the ongoing support needs of our daily information and communication infrastructures. Instead, what is called for are more ways to identify and describe the complex interactions of space, time and technology in contemporary work: to provide a more relevant and accurate way to account for how work and life changes in and through our daily technological practices.]]
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | TASA 2010 Conference Proceedings: Social Causes, Private Lives: 6-9 December 2010, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia |
| Publisher | TASA |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780646546285 |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
| Event | Australian Sociological Association. Conference - Duration: 26 Nov 2012 → … |
Conference
| Conference | Australian Sociological Association. Conference |
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| Period | 26/11/12 → … |