Technology and the 24-hour worker

Some recent lawsuits have highlighted the problem of employees having to work additional hours without pay. For example, a trio of current and former employees from T-Mobile say that they were required to respond to work messages after work hours.

In this instance, workers were told that they were expected to work the extra hours as part of the company's "standard business practice."

The heart of the matter appears to be over the definition of what constitutes work. With the ubiquity of smartphones, which allow messages and voice calls to be sent and received, the demarcation between work and play is rapidly blurring.

For more on this story:
- check out this article at Wall Street Journal

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