Posted February 9, 200718 yr iPod: Work aid or distraction? BY CHAD GRAHAM | THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC February 9, 2007 Hey . . . Hey . . . HEY! You in the cubicle there. Take out those iPod earbuds and listen up. These gadgets have made click wheels in the workplace as common as Starbucks coffee. Employers report that employees are increasingly plugging in the ubiquitous white earbuds, able to tune out co-workers, ignore bosses and pretend they are somewhere else as they enter data to "Fanfare for the Common Man." For more information, please click the link. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070209/BIZ03/702070394
February 9, 200718 yr http://www.technewsworld.com/story/55652.html speaking of listening up, how about banning them in public, because people keep getting hit by cars?
February 10, 200718 yr I listen to my iPod at work. Having music on actually helps me - it blocks out conversations from coworkers that have nothing to do with work. I also feel that I work faster with music on as well. Before I had an iPod, I just plugged my headphones into my computer and played CDs or listened to internet radio. speaking of listening up, how about banning them in public, because people keep getting hit by cars? $100 fines seem to be going too far. I will say that I rarely listen to my iPod when walking outside. When I'm walking, I always try to be aware of my surrounds. Having headphones in my ears does not allow this.
February 10, 200718 yr iPods at school are pretty popular... i use mine in my art class to drown out everyone else, it helps, but I did purchase a portable speaker that i can plug into the bottom of my iPod so that I can share my music with other people, listen to it while i drive, or multitask, like talking on the phone, or watching TV... this generation of teens is all about multitasking... my mom got mad at me over christmas break because i had my iPod on with the speaker, i was watching Sports Night: Season 1, i was IMing someone on the computer, while talking to someone else on my cellphone, and gluing magazine clippings to a posterboard for an english project. She said that my hair would fall out some day because of the undiscovered radiation that emits from too many electrical devices working simotainously near eachother. bullocks oh yeah... talking about iPods
February 10, 200718 yr I listen to my iPod at work all of the time. 8 hours straight of hiphop and R&B. If I don't have it there, I open up pandora.com. Usually everyone at my architecture firm listens to their ipod. Any conversation with other employees is done via an internal online messaging system, so it's not like communication throughout the workplace is dead, just less personal. I think it improved my productivity. I guess because you tune everything out, you need to be focused and working because you never know when your boss could be staring over you shoulder or something. iPods are big here on campus like they are at all colleges, and I'm not surprised that this trend will be perpetuated in the workplace as well.
February 10, 200718 yr Due to the nature of my job, I have to have on the TVs with various channels so listening to my ipod or the PC at work can't be done.
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