TASK 7: ESSAY DRAFT

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   Do smartphones increase or decrease our productivity?

Can you picture the world without smartphones? People go into panic mode if he or she were to leave the house without these technological devices. Some people describe leaving their smartphones at home as "feeling naked." It’s also impossible to imagine a nowadays workplace without them. The major question is how they may affect our productivity. Do they help to perform tasks or only reduce our concentration?
              
  The way of life in today's society has changed due to the introduction of smartphones. Therefore, employers need to pay attention to the benefits of smartphones and provide certain politics when these devices are used too often. Without a doubt, the indiscriminate use of smartphones negatively impacts the workplace. First of all,  everyone has notifications on his or her smartphone. It’s very annoying because it always takes you away from the activity you’re doing right now.

Secondly, nowadays we have an opportunity to stay in touch with our relatives and friends 24/7. Therefore, it distracts us very much. We usually think that it's necessary to give an immediate answer to all the messages and comments we receive. Furthermore, most companies have chats in different messengers. That's very convenient, but nevertheless, work chats distract us from offline communicating with our colleagues.

 Another big problem, that is connected with smartphones in a workplace is social networking. Modern society is used to live in an infinite stream of information. Some people feel information detox if they don’t check social media once an hour. Using social media on a smartphone makes us obsessed with what everyone else is doing at the expense of the actual task in front of us.

However, there are some advantages to utilizing smartphones during our workday. They provide the ability for employees and clients to communicate and contact one another quickly and efficiently. Before smartphones were introduced, contacting other customers and clients was not an easy issue.
To sum up, there are more distracting than useful points in using smartphones in the workplace all the time. I suppose that a company should provide certain policies and procedures that can control the usage of smartphones and other similar devices in the workplace.

Sources:
https://www.businessinsider.com/smartphone-habits-that-are-ruining-your-productivity-2018-7#constantly-taking-out-your-smartphone-to-take-a-photo-can-keep-you-from-being-in-the-moment-2
https://www.corporatewellnessmagazine.com/article/workplace-productivity-in-an-era-of-smartphones

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  1. Natalia Eydelman13 ноября 2019 г. в 20:53

    Thanks for your draft. A couple of things to consider:
    a) Thesis statements cannot be formulated as questions because they by definition are affirmative sentences and their purpose is to formulate in the most general way the points you are going to argue in your work.

    Your first body paragraph is a collection of ideas about the impact of smartphones on people's workplace experience. However, you do not develop them but just list them. What you need to do instead is choose one of the ideas you enumerate and develop it

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  2. Natalia Eydelman13 ноября 2019 г. в 20:57

    It is good you listed the links but you need to go further with this: The author, the title of the article (resource) followed by all reference details.

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