That's really into the business meetings

Smartphone usage in everyday work

The smartphone is for many a nice distraction in official meetings: Four out of ten professional’s smartphone users do with their mobile phones in meetings besides private things.

Surely you've ever wondered what makes your colleague when he busily looking at his cell phone during the meeting, right? The good news: The digital association Bitkom has now been found. The bad news: Your colleague is doing very likely nothing that has to do with the meeting.
Instead, he makes perhaps the Date for your evening out, playing solitaire or briefed on the latest sports results. And he is no exception. Almost half of all working-smartphone users do with their mobile phone during business meetings Private. 36 % steers itself "so every now and then" off 5 % even regularly!

Emails, WhatsApp or SMS

Who uses his smartphone during meetings for private things, read or answered mostly private messages such as email, WhatsApp messages or SMS (67 %). Around one in three (29 %) use social networks like Facebook or Twitter, one in four plays (27 %) or read the latest news on the net (23 %). 15 % inform yourself about sports results and 6 % buy their smartphones during the meeting on online shopping portals one.


Bothersome noise factor

At the same time say about three quarters of the working population (72 %) that it bothers them when other participants of a meeting dealing with the smartphone. Two-thirds (67 %) find the rude, 41 % believe that suffers from the quality of the meetings.

One in five (20 %) found, however, that the distraction with the Smartphone is now a necessity. "The smartphone is now for many newsroom, address book, calendar and notepad. Simply turn the smartphone into the meeting and put away, is hardly possible for many and would just not be accepted also by those who quite naturally urgent official matters in their spare time or even on vacation do vice versa, "says Bitkom CEO Dr. Bernhard Rohleder , "It is that there are social rules of when and how the equipment is used is more important."