![]() In the same poll, 63 percent of employees reported that they checked their email after work hours frequently and worked remotely seven hours or more per week.īut as Americans become increasingly dependent on technology, evidence of the negative impacts of too much screen time on both adults and kids continues to mount. A 2014 Gallup poll found that 62 percent of employers expect frequent mobile technology use and contact with employees. Kolberg’s unplugging experiment is something many Americans can’t do when so much of work and personal life are conducted online. ![]() “It enhanced our relationships with our friends and family. I got out my record player and typewriter, we used the phone book and paper maps,” Kolberg said. ![]() The result is Kolberg’s newly released book, “A Year Unplugged: A Family’s Life Without Technology”. So Kolberg, 44, proposed a bold plan to her husband, a marketing executive, and their 5-year-old daughter: rid their home of all technology, from TV and phones to the Internet and digital cameras, for one full year. In the spring of 2009, California-based writer Sharael Kolberg did the math and estimated that she spent four months of her year using some form of entertainment technology - whether watching TV or surfing the Internet. ![]()
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