With the launch of the new Pokemon App last week, yesterday Boeing decided to ban their employees from playing it in the workplace. One employee was reportedly hurt playing the game and there were over 100 phones using the App. It sucks up bandwidth and takes up important work time.
Available on today's Smartphones, the game allows players to use GPS and lets players hunt around for virtual creatives in a real space.
Outside of the workplace, surely this new game is only going to lead to accidents and disasters? Players get so involved and forget about what is going on around them in the "real" world. It is bad enough that people walk around with their heads in their phone whilst emailing and texting but when they are so absorbed in a computer game and they are aiming to catch a Pokemon, there are likely to be serious accidents. Have you witnessed anything on the edge?
You can see the full story about Boeing banning Pokemon here.
Tell us, have you experienced work colleagues playing the game around you? Are you playing it at work? Is it distracting your day to day activities?
With the increasing use of smartphones, it is not surprising that in our latest survey we found that over 72% searched for a job from their mobile at least once per day.
Not only that, our survey found that 28% of people actually search several times per day and 19% every hour. 25% said they searched once per day!
On the other end of the scale, only 17% said they NEVER searched from their mobile. As the months and years go by, this figure will reduce further. More and more people are moving to use mobiles for more than just telephone calls and text messages. Smartphone provide the ability to do so much more from a mobile with increasing speeds and ease.
So, where do you sit? Are you one of the 17% who have never searched for a job from your mobile? Do you think you may do next time?
If you are a regular user, do you use apps or the internet pages of job boards? And what else do you use your smartphone for other than phone calls or text messages?
We would love to hear what you have to say about this very prevalent topic.