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Executive Summary (Summary or Abstract)

The aim of this report was to investigate UniLab staff attitudes to personal mobile

phone use in staff and team meetings. A staff survey on attitudes towards the use of

mobile phones in the staff / team meetings was conducted. The results indicate that

the majority of staff find mobile phone use a major issue in staff meetings. The report

concludes that personal mobile phones are disruptive and should be turned off in

meetings. It is recommended that UniLab develops a company policy banning the use

of mobile phones except in exceptional circumstances.

Introduction

There has been a massive increase in the use of personal mobile phones over the past

five years and there is every indication that this will continue. According to Black

(2002) by 2008 almost 100% of working people in Australia will carry personal mobile

phones. Black describes this phenomenon as �serious in the extreme, potentially

undermining the foundations of communication in our society’ (2002, p 167). Currently

at UniLab 89% of staff have personal mobile phones.

Recently a number of staff have complained about the use of personal mobile phones

in meetings and asked what the official company policy is. At present there is no

official company policy regarding phone use. This report examines the issue of mobile

phone usage in staff meetings and small team meetings. It does not seek to examine

the use of mobile phones in the workplace at other times, although some concerns

were raised.

For the purposes of this report a personal mobile phone is a personally funded phone

for private calls as opposed to an employer