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A growing number of people, who take laptops with them during holidays, find it difficult to switch off and spend most of their hard-found leisure time in working on laptops, the Daily Telegraph quoted Cary Cooper, professor at Lancaster University management school's department of psychology and health. "The rise in mobile phone and Internet technology has already affected our weekends and now it is invading annual holidays. Sensible bosses and workers should insist that holidays are computer free," he suggested. Coopers said the current credit crisis has aggravated the problem with people keeping themselves glued to their computer systems monitoring e-mails during vacations as they have become increasingly insecure about their jobs. "People worry about a backlog and that things will be missed while they are away. They feel a need to be constantly online and checking their emails.This insecurity is endemic to the service-based industries," said Cooper. According to him, taking work on holidays could deprive people of "much needed rest and recuperation" from demanding jobs and it could also lead to family break-ups."People should remember a holiday isn’t just for rest and recuperation but to commune again with your family, connect with your kids." He also said those who show that they can work for their organisation even on holidays are actually cheating themselves. — IANS
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THOUGH
laptops and wireless Internet connections are considered inseparable
tools for the new-age executives, they are spoiling their holidays and
increasingly ruining their family relationships, a psychologist has
warned.