(The Standard
P.10 22 Feb 2013) How
much would you pay to add an extra hour to your day?
There
are some people out there who would go as high as HK$5,000 to have a 25-hour
day - but not many of them.
A Hong
Kong University Public Opinion Programme survey posed (提出) the hypothetical (假設的) question to 517 people in January.
Two
percent said they were willing to pay HK$5,000 or more and 2 percent said they
would be willing (願意的) to
pay from HK$1,000 to HK$4,999.
However,
more than 60 percent of the respondents said they were quite happy managing
their lives in the time already available - with the help of technology.
They
said technology could help them save more than 1 hours a day on average.
Program
director Robert Chung Ting-yiu said the result shows Hongkongers rely (依賴) heavily
on technology to deal with their daily routines (日常工作), so
their demands (需求) on time are unlimited.
On
average (平均), people spend a total of five hours a day on
internet-connected computers as well as on mobile devices.(流動的裝備), the
poll shows.(調查指出).
The
top two tasks for which the respondents find themselves needing a convenient IT
tool is to send and receive e-mail.
But
Chung is confident the reliance (信賴) on
the internet for work does not intrude (強加) on home life.
"Few workers handle e-mails or calls related to (有關) work after office hours unless they are ordered to do
so," he said.
Many
employees in the marketing and sales fields are happy with the advancements of
technology (提升技術) that help them keep in touch with their
clients at all times. But it may not be the case for employees in other
industries.
"The
blame (指責) for an imbalanced work-life habit is not due
to technology itself, but how bosses handle technology in their business and
for their workers," he said.
Overall
(從頭到尾),
technology provides new options by making working hours more flexible(有彈性的).
"Technology
brings us a new corporate culture (公司文化) in
which many companies can break the rules (打破常規) of restricted (受限制的) working hours and instead encourage their
employees to work at home," Chung said.
Candy
Chan
Nowadays most people rely heavily on mobile devices such as Smartphone and iPad, and so on. Users use those electric products to contact and communicate with others and their friends as well as family members.
回覆刪除Some like reading news and books; some like watching TV programme and YouTube and some like playing games and listening to the radio by those mobile IT tools as they are convenient and trendy.
WhatsApp is one of the most popular social media tool for users to send text messaging to each other. Users enjoy this programme a lot as it provides unlimited free text messaging. So that netizen send the text messaging frequently once they are free. Besides, most employees are even do it at office hour.
Smartphone can bring lots of fun to users. However, many people spend too much time on surfing the net by it. Wherever users are on a MTR, on a bus, on busy streets, they just focus on their sets of Smartphone or iPad. For example, when being on very crowded train compartments during rush hour, I nearly always see a picture that I am surrounded by many sets of Smartphone. The scene looks like spectacular.
In my opinion, although WhatsApp provides unlimited free text messaging for users, time is always limited. We need to make the best use of our time as it is precious. At the same time, we should spend more time on caring our family members, friends and others. Develop a good relationship with them instead waste time on the net world.
Lorsa Lo