This has been the year of the phone fightback (as in trying to wean us off our phones for limited periods of time). A few years ago, we thought this was a problem exclusive to millennials and young people who had never experienced a landlines-only world. Now, we know it is all of us, and we are in just as deep as the generation brought up on Peppa Pig.
Phones in meetings
In the new world of face-to-face meetings, it is normal to have parallel conversations conducted on phones. This is the reason you have your phone in a meeting in the first place. You might need to text a colleague or answer a question raised by the boss. It is part of the speedy “I’m on it now” culture. That’s as may be, but we all know that if you have a phone anywhere within arm’s reach, you are sooner or later going to be tempted to browse Ikea headboards, check the name of Jeremy Allen White’s estranged wife, and WhatsApp your brother to remind him to turn off the heating.
