Business Professionals Can’t Live Without Sex or Smartphones

Business Professionals Can’t Live Without Sex or Smartphones
Smartphones tied with sex as the number one thing that business professionals can not live without in a study from cloud-based business phone system provider, RingCentral. In a survey among RingCentral’s small to medium-sized business customers in the U.S., the importance of the smartphone in daily and business life was reiterated over and over again.

The study, which surveyed nearly 400 customers, showed that smartphones are taking on the defacto role in business communication.
Here are some highlights:

• Smartphones and intimate relationships tied at 40% for the number one thing respondents can’t live without.
• 79% of respondents use their smartphones to conduct most business calls, versus an office phone or home phone.
• 34% use a smartphone more than a computer for business. 7% even said they don’t take their laptops with them when they travel for business if they have a smartphone.
• 48% of respondents said that at least two-thirds of their phone communication is via smartphone.

None of this data is particularly surprising, except for the shift to using a smartphone as a primary business device. Thanks to platforms like Android and the iPhone, you really can do a lot of work from your mobile device.
It will be interesting to see how tablet devices like the iPad will be used for business and how those devices will be classified.
How has having a smartphone changed (or not changed) how you conduct business? Let us know.

from - http://mashable.com/2010/04/13/ringcentral-survey/