Majority of workers suffer from smartphone withdrawal: poll

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/27
By: Yu Hsiao-han and Christie Chen

Taipei, July 27 (CNA) A total of 57.1 percent of surveyed workers become anxious or worried if they do not use their mobile phones for a certain period of time, according to a poll released Wednesday by the Ministry of Labor (MOL).

Among them, 30 percent said they can tolerate not using their mobile phones for up to 12 hours, 15 percent can tolerate not using their phones for 13-24 hours, 8.1 percent can stand going phoneless for one to three days, and only 4 percent can bear being phoneless for more than three days, according to the poll.

The poll results show that women, young people and those with higher education are more likely to be addicted to their phones.

The results also show that 8 percent of the respondents have had their personal information leaked when using the Internet, 5.3 percent have encountered fraud when using the Internet, and 3.4 percent have been victims of online verbal abuse.