Who's responsible for your CrackBerry addiction?
Who's responsible for your CrackBerry addiction?
But can your employer actually be liable for this type of behavior? According to Gayle Porter, an associate professor of management at the Rutgers University School of Business, they can. Porter recently wrote a paper stating that workers could possibly sue their employers for their "work-induced tech addiction" and its affect on their personal lives. You can read the full Reuters story at CNET News.com. Personally, I'm not buying it. Unless you have a job that requires you to be on call 24/7, we all have the ability to walk away from our device or to turn it off. Blaming this type of behavior on someone else--unless your boss is really a tyrant, and if that's the case, I think you have some bigger issues to deal with than a tech addiction--just seems weak to me. What do you think?