A survey of people who use mobile phones or tablets for work has found that the devices are encroaching on private lives.
61 per cent of mobile workers say that they sleep with their smartphone; 43 per cent say they keep their smartphone within arms reach at night. More alarming is that 38 per cent of mobile workers wake up to check their smartphone during the night.
The survey, by mobile business solutions company iPass, also found that the average mobile worker works 240 hours per year more than the workforce in general.
The survey also found that 94 per cent of mobile workers have a smartphone, while 41 per cent have a tablet. 87 per cent of tablet owners use them for work, but only 27 per cent of tablet owners had them provided for them by their employer. 
In terms of behaviour around mobile phones, taking a call in a meeting (84 per cent said it was unacceptable), checking a phone in a meeting or during a presentation (83 per cent said it was unnacceptable) and checking a smartphone while driving (82 per cent said it was unacceptable) were all behaviours that were widely condemned by the surveyed workers.
Despite this, 40 per cent said they had taken a call in a meeting, 48 per cent they had checked a phone in a face-to-face meeting, and 49 per cent admitted checking a phone while driving.
For the purposes of the survey, a mobile worker was defined as anyone who uses any mobile device (including laptop, netbook, smartphone, cellphone, or tablet) and who accesses networks (other than the corporate LAN or WLAN) for work purposes.
