If we've learned one thing from our Media Diets, it's that the first thing many people reach for in the morning is their smartphone. In fact, many of them sleep with them in their beds at night. We're inclined to write this off as another of the many examples of smartphone obsession, but there's a certain creep factor to folks sleeping with their phones as if the devices were a spouse, isn't there?
Not for nearly a quarter of 1,600 business managers and professionals, surveyed from a list of business people who've taken executive education courses at Harvard. According to Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow, 26% of these go-getters answered yes when asked, "during the week do you sleep with your handheld device?" That finding anchors her aptly titled new book, Sleeping With Your Smartphone, all about businesspeople's crazy marriage to their work (often through their smartphones). The key passage...
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