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...BlackBerry and nearly imperceptible. What's not so great about it? Same thing. Wi-fi makes work that much easier to do and that much harder to escape. "We're just adapting to this new environment, adapting to what the technology allows you to do," says Martyn Mallick, a product manager at iAnywhere...
...biggest change has been felt in meetings, which used to be decidedly low-tech. Employees used to jot notes in black, spiral-bound paper notebooks and later transfer the most important information to their computers. Now they're toting around laptops, and instead of just taking notes at meetings, Mallick and his colleagues are exchanging files, looking up stuff on the Web--a description of a competitor's product, for instance--and consulting their calendars to choose a time for their next meeting. "Before, everyone would leave, and maybe 13 e-mails would go around," Mallick says. By dealing with...
...Mallick admits, however, that attending a meeting full of people communing with their laptops instead of one another can be strange. "Sometimes I find it distracting," he says, "when I'm giving a presentation, and everyone's typing away on their laptops. It's a bit of a mind-set change, that people are actually working, that this is the new workplace." It isn't too hard to tell, though, when people are goofing off. "If they are looking up and paying attention to you and making eye contact, their body language tells a lot about whether they're part...
...similar to the adjustment people went through with cell phones and BlackBerries: a period of intense use (and overuse) followed by a mellowing out as new ground rules emerge. Gillespie, for example, says she leaves her laptop on her desk when she and her colleagues are brainstorming. And Mallick says certain tasks require the focused concentration an old-fashioned desk provides. "I don't find I can do software development in an airport," he says...
...Aditi Mallick contributed to the reporting of this story...