英倫翻譯社/ Trsmaster

有智慧型手機真的就比較便利了嗎

Researchers found that Britons work an additional 460 hours a year on average as they are able to respond to emails on their mobiles.

研究人員發現，由於可以隨時用手機回應電郵，英國人每年的工作時間平均增加了460小時。

The study by technology retailer Pixmania, reveals the average UK working day is between 9 and 10 hours, but a further two hours is spent responding to or sending work emails, or making work calls.

科技產品零售商Pixmania所做的這項研究顯示，英國人平均每天工作9到10小時，但又額外多了兩個小時用來收發工作郵件或者打工作電話。

More than 90 percent of office workers have an email-enabled phone, with a third accessing them more than 20 times a day.

超過90%的職員有可以收發電郵的手機，3分之1的人每天查看電郵20次以上。

Almost one in ten admits spending up to three hours outside their normal working day checking work emails, and even those without a smartphone check emails on their home computer.

近10分之1的職員承認每天日常工作時間外，最多還要花3個小時來查看工作電郵，就連沒有智慧手機的員工也用家中的電腦查看。

Some workers confess they are on call almost 24 hours a day, with nine out of ten saying they take work emails and calls outside their normal working hours.

有些員工承認，他們幾乎全天24小時待命，其中9成受訪者表示要在正常工作時間外收發電郵和接打工作電話。

新聞辭典

workaholic：複合詞，由work加上字尾holic組成，指工作狂。 同類詞彙如︰alcoholic（愛喝酒的人）；chocoholic（嗜吃巧克力的人）。

all-singing all-dancing：片語，時髦先進且功能繁多的；花俏、華而不實的。用法如：the executive’s new all-singing, all-dancing website（行政部門異常花俏的新網站）。

on call：隨叫隨到，引申為隨時待命的意思。

英倫翻譯文章出處 ：自由時報電子報中英對照新聞