Researchers found that Britons work an additional 460 hours a year on average as they are able to respond to emails on their mobiles.

 

The study by technology retailer¹ Pixmania, reveals the average UK working day is between nine and 10 hours, but a further two hours is spent responding to or sending work emails, or making work calls.

 

More than 90 percent of office workers have an email-enabled phone, with a third accessing them more than 20 times a day.

 

Almost one in ten admits spending up to three hours outside their normal working day checking work emails, and even those without a smartphone check emails on their home computer.

 

Some workers confess they are on call almost 24 hours a day, with nine out of ten saying they take work emails and calls outside their normal working hours.

 

Nearly two-thirds say they often check work emails just before they go to bed and as soon as they wake up, while over a third have replied to one in the middle of the night.

 

The average time for first checking emails is between 6am and 7am, with more than a third checking their first email in this period, and a quarter checking them between 11pm and midnight.

 

Ghadi Hobeika, marketing² director of Pixmania, said: 'The ability to access literally³ millions of apps, keep in contact via social networks and take photos and video as well as text and call has made smartphones invaluable⁴ for many people.

 

'However, there are drawbacks（缺点）. Many companies expect their employees to be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and smartphones mean that people literally cannot get away from work.

 

'The more constantly in contact we become, the more is expected of us in a work capacity.'

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