{"resolved":true,"match_type":"uuid","source_type":"original_book","book_id":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","title":"Pressed for Time The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism","author":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"isbn":"9780226196473","requested_by":"printed_page","book":{"source_type":"original_book","book_id":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","id":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","uuid":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","title":"Pressed for Time The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism","normalized_title":"pressedfortimetheaccelerationoflifeindigitalcapitalism","author":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"isbn":"9780226196473","isbns":["9780226196473","9780226196503"],"parsed":true,"ai_readable":true,"document_type":"book","page_count":228,"navigation_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/book/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","title_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/title/Pressed%20for%20Time%20The%20Acceleration%20of%20Life%20in%20Digital%20Capitalism","fixed_page_url_template":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/book/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/page/{printed_page}","path_api_url_template":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/book/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/page/{printed_page}","read_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/read/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","page_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/books/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/page","search_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/books/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/search"},"page":{"printed_page":93,"pdf_page":105,"physical_index":105,"physical_index_base":0,"printed_page_status":"recognized","page_sha256":"549613a428ee284bba1fbda86fdf50b4f0ea127cc72b0235e5741aa8d65f107f"},"chapter":"Pressed for Time","content":"Since the survey was completed, the purchase of smartphones, tablets, and laptops has soared and people are spending more and more time online. The mean amount of active Internet use at work has doubled from 4.6 hours per week in 2001 to 9.2 hours in 2010.13 This means that those who have Internet access at work are spending the equivalent of an entire workday per week online. Such estimates are notoriously dificult to make, as computers are on all day and are increasingly integrated into the work environment. It is also hard to get an accurate picture of what precisely the Internet is being used for. The Networked Workers survey found that, while at work, 22 percent of workers shop online, 15 percent watch videos, and 10 percent use online social or professional networking sites, while 3 percent play games. News consumption has also moved online and into the workplace as has pornography.14 The workplace use of ICTs is by no means confined to work purposes, and for some provides access to forms of relaxation at work.\n\nWhat the data clearly show is that the frequency and type of technology usage at work varies significantly with diferent kinds of jobs. Nearly three out of four professionals and managers use the Internet at work, either constantly or several times a day. About half of clerical, ofice, and sales workers also use the Internet at work at least several times a day. Daily Internet use is much lower in other job categories. These patterns hold for cell phone use with one central diference. Workers in skilled trades (for example, electricians) have relatively high rates of work-only cell phone use, compared to the proportion of skilled trades people that report daily Internet use.\n\nThe enormous variation in ICT usage across diferent occupations and industries, even within North America and Europe, makes it impossible to generalize. It is not my aim to present an overview of all the diferent worlds of work with ICTs. Rather, I want to focus on the central claims that are made about the impact of ICTs on the working patterns of highly networked workers: the intensification of work and the extension of work beyond the workplace (discussed in chapter 6).\n\nLarge-scale surveys like Pew typically report that such employees express mixed views about the impact of technology on their work lives. On the one hand, they cite the benefits of increased connectivity and flexibility that the Internet and all their various gadgets aford them at work. On the other hand, many say these tools have added stress and new demands to their lives. Curiously, few workers feel as though e-mail alone has increased the total amount of time they spend working.15 In fact, most studies measure work “demands,” not work hours, and therefore the connection between ICTs and longer work hours has not been established.16\n\nWorking with Constant Conne c tivity\n\n93","previous_page":92,"next_page":94}