Can't stand to be without your Blackberry? Blame it on the boss.
A new study by MIT's Sloan School of Management found that 90 percent of BlackBerry-toting workers felt some degree of compulsion around the gadgets, checking messages at odd hours and in inappropriate settings even if it wasn't required by their job.
In most cases, the compulsion could be traced back to supervisors, who used their PDAs in a somewhat obsessive way and thus set difficult expectations for their subordinates.
Study coauthor and doctoral student Melissa Mazmanian advises: "These norms and expectations should be accompanied by training that enables people to learn how to batch and queue their messages, so that they can work on e-mails when convenient, without sending them out until later."
BlackBerry Addiction Starts at the Top[PC World]
