By Sue Shellenbarger, Wall Street Journal Blog
Texting has been blamed for a lot of things–harassment among teenagers, driver distraction on the highway, bad grades among students. Now, it is being blamed for bad manners at work. Based on research on 9,000 U.S. workers and managers, Christine Pearson, a management professor at Thunderbird School of Global Management, says all the texting and emailing interrupting meetings and face-to-face conversations at the office are slowly but surely eroding human civility and making us–well, rude, she writes.
http://blogs.wsj.com/juggle/2010/05/24/texting-during-meetings-the-decline-of-civility/
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