Saturday, December 24, 2011

Volkswagen turns off after-hours BlackBerry emails

BlackBerry Bold 9790

As more and more people accept the Smartphone and Tablet for work purposes, it becomes increasingly difficult to turn off these gadgets, as soon as the working day. One of the automaker, however, may have a solution freezes access as soon as you exit.


BBCby Volkswagen has agreed to stop his BlackBerry servers from sending e-mail to workers when they are not in service. The BlackBerry Eclipse applies only to German workers unions negotiated contracts.


Volkswagen is to do it out of the goodness of his heart, however. The result of the complaint that the switch policy "work and home lives are becoming blurred," he told the BBC.


Volkswagen is immediately did not respond to a request for comment.


Once in place, employees will stop receiving e-mails for 30 minutes after they have ceased to work; These reports starts again 30 minutes before they arrive at work.


Other companies have similar steps. Thierry Breton, the Director-General and Chairman of Atos Origin, the extensive information technology services company, said in February that would eradicate the company e-mail during the next three years in favour of the more useful tools. More about the is Email dead?


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