Smartphones make us busier but not more productive, claims report

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Those with a BlackBerry or equivalent spent 2.5 times as long checking emails outside working hours

Constantly attending to email out of office hours doesn't make us more productive, it just sucks up our free time, according to a book published this week. In compiling The Activity Illusion, au...

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