This chapter has focused on how information and communication technologies afect time while people are at work. However, one of the main claims about the impact of ICTs is their propensity to extend work into times and spaces traditionally work-free. The Pew survey shows that networked workers use digital devices across social domains, including home, to accomplish work.47 I will examine this claim, the so-called blurring of personal and work time, in detail in chapter 6. But first I want to consider the impact of technology on domestic work. If the time deficit is as much to do with the combined demands of work and family life as it is to do with technological change, then the time spent in housework is a critical factor in people’s experience of harriedness.
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