Personal smartphone use can reduce productivity because it creates responsibilities that they have to respond to which disrupts work tasks. 

Personal Smartphone Use Can Reduce Productivity at the Workplace

•	It can bring personal problems into work where it is expected to be separated. 

•	It can reduce employee’s functioning at work. 


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Employees use their smartphones at work for many personal reasons such as keeping in contact with their loved ones such as family and friends, but it can bring benefits and disadvantages in the workplace. 

Personal Smartphone Use at the Workplace

 Patterer, A.S., Yanagida, T., Kühnel, J. and Korunka, C. (2021), Staying in touch, yet expected to be? A diary study on the relationship between personal smartphone use at work and work–nonwork interaction. J Occup Organ Psychol, 94: 735-761. https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12348

Staying in touch, yet expected to be? 

•	Resolve their personal issues and tasks while still at work

•	Employees can be more involved in work

Benefits of Personal Smartphone Use at the Workplace

Disadvantages of Personal Smartphone Use at the Workplace

It was found that personal smartphone use is something that gives both benefits and disadvantages in the workplace. 

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